Donation of outboard motors by President John Mahama to fishermen in the Western Region has been described as an abuse of incumbency by Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the Member of Parliament for Ablekuma West Constituency. The President Mahama who was in the region for a four-day visit, donated some outboard motors to fishermen in Axim ahead of the polls in December.
Ursula suggested that, the president procured the outboard motors, using state funds, to the fishermen in an attempt to influence voters. “Interestingly on his first stop, he uses funds and equipment procured by the state for a policy of the state to give to people as part of his campaign. That is what is termed as abuse of incumbency,” Ursula hinted.
“You can dress it and put any garment on it but look at the facts, all of them were embossed with JM 2016, that’s a campaign gimmick. If you use state resources to buy outboard motors as part of an official government policy and you emboss those outboard motors with your campaign stickers and slogans and share them during your campaign tours, that’s vote-buying with state resources and a gross abuse of incumbency.”
She opined that Ghnaians should vote the NDC out of power.“Vote them out then you can be sure that state resources would be used for the benefit of everybody,” she said.
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