{"id":1078291,"date":"2022-05-06T11:52:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/06\/audio-power-thirst-forcing-mahama-to-make-promises-he-cant-keep-majority-leader\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T11:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T11:52:42","slug":"audio-power-thirst-forcing-mahama-to-make-promises-he-cant-keep-majority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/06\/audio-power-thirst-forcing-mahama-to-make-promises-he-cant-keep-majority-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: Power thirst forcing Mahama to make promises he can&#8217;t keep &#8211; Majority Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n <img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1651837962_748_728x90BW.png\"\/> <\/div>\n<p><strong>Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and majority leader of Parliament, says he believes his \u201cGrand Pa\u201d John Dramani Mahama will not scrap the E-levy policy, as he stated in his \u201cGhana at Crossroads\u201d talk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He emphasizes that the previous president will only utilize the funds for the country\u2019s development, just as President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo has done.<\/p>\n<p>When the NDC won power from the previous NPP government, he told Okay FM\u2019s \u2018Ade Akye Abia\u2019 program that they failed to abolish many money-making schemes enacted by the previous NPP government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NDC promised to repeal the Communication Service Tax (CST) when they came to power, according to one of the parliamentary Hansards. \u201cHowever, what did they do once they gained power?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, they raised it because they saw how helpful it was to the country\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana, like the industrialized countries, cannot become overly reliant on other countries that use taxes to expand their economies. We need to figure out how to tax and use the money to help the country flourish. Everybody wants their own road built when we travel to cabinet meetings and other official functions, while others demand basic social facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can we progress as a country if we are constantly looking to the west for financial assistance? To be able to meet our own infrastructure demands, we should be a self-sufficient country \u201che insisted.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m convinced my \u201cGrand Pa\u201d John Mahama\u2019s obsessive drive for power is forcing him to make promises he can\u2019t even keep, he remarked.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"jDeno-jOGBc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"My &quot;Grand Pa&quot; John Mahama Won&#039;t Scrap E-Levy But..........- Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jDeno-jOGBc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More News <strong>HERE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: DailyNewsGhana.com\/2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"daily-telegram\" id=\"daily-1822707500\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Tap-to-Join-Our-Telegram-Channel...jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"298\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"daily-whatsapp\" id=\"daily-1300833193\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/joinwhatsapp.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"696\" height=\"162\"\/><\/div>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and majority leader of Parliament, says he believes his \u201cGrand Pa\u201d John Dramani Mahama will not scrap the E-levy policy, as he stated in his \u201cGhana at Crossroads\u201d talk. He emphasizes that the previous president will only utilize the funds for the country\u2019s development, just as President Nana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1078292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3857,7879,3151,1125,2100,448,1534,12174],"class_list":["post-1078291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-audio","tag-forcing","tag-leader","tag-mahama","tag-majority","tag-power","tag-promises","tag-thirst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}