The Director of Communications for the Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia 2024 presidential campaign, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has publicly challenged Franklin Cudjoe, the founding president of Imani Ghana, regarding what he perceives as Cudjoe’s overt campaign against the Vice President and his support for the NDC and its candidate, John Dramani Mahama.
In a post on his Facebook page dated Friday, 15 November 2024, Aboagye responded to a comment made by Cudjoe on his X account earlier that day. Cudjoe had stated,
I just saw a political advert by the NPP claiming John Dramani Mahama plans to cancel LEAP, NHIS, Free SHS. It is a BOLD LIE!
In a pointed response, Dennis Miracles Aboagye criticized Mr. Cudjoe, noting that he has recently intensified his “communications” in favor of Mr. Mahama, as it is evident to Cudjoe that Dr. Bawumia is conducting a more effective campaign in contrast to the struggling campaign of his chosen candidate.
It looks like our Imani guys have realized the agenda isn’t agending, so they must get into the ring themselves. This is because of late the NDC comms job Franklin Cudjoe has been doing for the NDC no be small!
Franklin, Ghanaians do not need you to tell them what the incompetent former President will do if they make the mistake of bringing him back. John Mahama has been President before. He came, we saw and remember what he did, what he undid, and what he could not do and would not do.
As Vice-President and President, he inherited an NHIS with a membership of 12.5 million Ghanaians, by the time he was leaving office, the services and numbers were in a constant decline and membership had reduced to 11.03 million, due to incompetence, lack of care, and confidence, and the total inefficiencies of the managers of the National Health Insurance Scheme.
Today, membership has increased from 11.03 million to 17.5 million. For the entire period, John Mahama was in office, he did not add one single illness to be covered by the NHIS. Not one! Instead, Cash & Carry was brought effectively back,” the post further read.John Mahama left Ghanaians with a turnaround time of a whole 3 weeks for renewals of NHIS. Which means within that period if you were to fall ill, you would have no cover! And, 1,000s of Ghanaians suffered it. This is after NDC failed woefully to implement their main promise for 2008: One Time Health Insurance Premium payment.
I’m sure you have heard your beloved Mahama talk about another health scheme he is threatening to impose if elected, which is different from the NHIS, right? So, if anyone warns that he will cancel NHIS, knowing how he effectively collapsed NHIS, and he is now busily threatening to introduce a new competitive scheme, that person speaks nothing but the truth. It is you, Prophet Cudjoe, who is rather speculating against the evidence. You are rather the liar!
John Mahama as President could neither increase the amount paid for LEAP beneficiaries nor increase the number of households covered” and that “he left LEAP beneficiaries in hunger and limbo for 3 solid years and 2 quarters without their benefits. Today, he (John Mahama) says he is the one who cares for the poor and that is not a lie! John Mahama, per his record, is an enemy of the poor. A foe to the masses.
So, you see, Franklin, No Ghanaian is waiting for you or Imani Ghana to tell us what Mahama will do and will not do. We know, as a matter of fact, what Mahama did and did not do when he was President, what he said, what he has done, and what he will do as President. And, frankly, Franklin, the masses are scared. Women are scared. Young voters are afraid of their future.
These things we know for a fact, based on his own words and deeds as president and as a candidate. What John Mahama would not do by 2016 when he had another four years to account to Ghanaians, surely, my brother, we cannot expect him to do if elected in 2024 when he will not be accountable to the voters after 2028,
