Vice President of IMANI Ghana responsible for Education and Policy, Lawyer Kofi Bentil has given reasons for supporting Dr Bawumia to win the 2024 General elections.
Bentil who has been a staunch critic of the Nana Addo administration, believes Dr. Bawumia has the wherewithal to drive this country forward with his lofty and tangible ideas.
He shared his mind on reasons Ghanaians must choose Dr Bawumia against John Mahatma:
We all must rise and play our part in moving Ghana forward.
We must be motivated by lofty ideals and dreams of a better Ghana not small thinking and fear.
We must make choices for the future, not resign ourselves to small thinking and weak ideas.
We must encourage those who show great promise and not retreat to a past we rejected.
SPEAK UP, STICK TO PRINCIPLE.
I remember the mess in the previous NDC government and spoke against it! It was not pleasant but I swam against the tide to the annoyance of many in power! I stood with the principles I believed in.
Despite my active support for their election, I saw some of the policies of the new government were bad so regardless that I supported them, I was the most vocal critic of the BAD Policies. When I see bad I will always speak up. I have lived that principle all my life.
In the first term of this government when they allowed the EMT to function and senior men like Osafo Maafo and the VP who was chair, to do their work, and took their advise, the economy did well and NPP won a second term!!!
Then we all saw the mess after Covid when good advise was pushed aside and even the EMT was sidelined! A series of bad policies like excessive borrowing and E-Levy were implemented. THERE ALSO I SPOKE OUT more than most !!!
in all my public advocacy since I was a student leader in 1991, I have always spoken up against what is wrong but I don’t only complain, I make suggestions, I research possible solutions and also propose them alongside my criticism, everyone knows what I’ve done together with my brothers in ImaniAfrica.
LOOK OUT FOR SOLUTIONS AND GREAT LEADERS
I also look out for shining stars and upright leaders, which is why I have identified for myself 2 people in NDC who I will back if ever and whenever they decide to run for President.
Unless they change, I will support them against anyone because I have observed them for abut 10 years now, and they have what Ghana Needs!!
I don’t care what party they belong to, when the time comes I will support them for God and country sake!!
Dr Bawumia was thrust on us all as an unknown political quantity, and we all saw him transform from a Banker and Academic into the most formidable politician who can be credited with pushing Nana Addo into victory with his effective campaigning.
In government I particularly started observing him closely and noticed a number of things:
- 1.He worked harder than ANYONE in NPP!
- 2.When others were serving themselves and chasing deals and property, Dr. Bawumia focused on what was good for Ghana. Always.
- He avoided the corruption others were running to! 3.He even cancelled bad deals like the interoperability deal which was overvalued by over ONE BILLION DOLLARS! other politicians would have gone for a cut of several hundred million and allowed the loot to go on! He cancelled it! and still delivered interoperability with a far smaller cost to the nation, today we all benefit immensely from mobile money interoperability which allows transfers across networks!!
- 4.He avoided people who were tainted with corruption. I watched Dr Bawumia consciously steer away from controversial personalities and all appearance of corruption.
- 5.He made sure he won’t be found with or near them, and remained clean.
- even after he had been sidelined in the management of the economy he fought for changes to some of the policies he was not happy with such as elevy (which hes promised to abolish), and I observed him fight to get crucial transformational projects done and saw him fight all manner of other battles with.
- source.nsemgh
