{"id":321907,"date":"2025-04-06T07:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T07:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/04\/06\/mahama-kept-his-promise-jantuah-slams-e-levy-as-cause-of-npps-fall\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T07:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T07:32:29","slug":"mahama-kept-his-promise-jantuah-slams-e-levy-as-cause-of-npps-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/04\/06\/mahama-kept-his-promise-jantuah-slams-e-levy-as-cause-of-npps-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama kept his promise &#8211; Jantuah slams E-Levy as cause of NPP\u2019s fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p id=\"article-123\">Legal practitioner and member of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP), Kwame Jantuah, has commended President John Dramani Mahama for staying true to his campaign pledge to abolish the controversial Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy), calling the tax policy \u201ctheft on the people\u2019s money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a panel discussion on Morning Starr, Jantuah did not hold back in his criticism of the E-Levy and the government that introduced it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe e-levy was theft on the people\u2019s money and it\u2019s a good thing it went,\u201d he said, adding that the policy failed to deliver on the promises made when it was first introduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the time, what did they tell us? E-levy was the be-all to end-all of Ghana. It was going to do so many things for Ghana, things that we couldn\u2019t do with tolls, so they scrapped tolls,\u201d Jantuah remarked. \u201cThey scrapped tolls and now look at the state of some of our roads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The legal practitioner argued that the decision to impose the E-Levy, despite significant public opposition, contributed to the electoral defeat of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will congratulate President Mahama for sticking to his promise because the e-levy was part and parcel of the NPP losing the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they had listened at the time, if Ken Ofori-Atta had listened to the people at the time, they could have amended it in a way that could be accepted by the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal practitioner and member of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP), Kwame Jantuah, has commended President John Dramani Mahama for staying true to his campaign pledge to abolish the controversial Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy), calling the tax policy \u201ctheft on the people\u2019s money.\u201d Speaking during a panel discussion on Morning Starr, Jantuah did not hold back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":321908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mahama kept his promise - Jantuah slams E-Levy as cause of NPP\u2019s fall - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/04\/06\/mahama-kept-his-promise-jantuah-slams-e-levy-as-cause-of-npps-fall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mahama kept his promise - Jantuah slams E-Levy as cause of NPP\u2019s fall - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Legal practitioner and member of the Convention People\u2019s Party (CPP), Kwame Jantuah, has commended President John Dramani Mahama for staying true to his campaign pledge to abolish the controversial Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy), calling the tax policy \u201ctheft on the people\u2019s money.\u201d Speaking during a panel discussion on Morning Starr, Jantuah did not hold back [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/04\/06\/mahama-kept-his-promise-jantuah-slams-e-levy-as-cause-of-npps-fall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-06T07:32:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/47913067.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2025\\\/04\\\/06\\\/mahama-kept-his-promise-jantuah-slams-e-levy-as-cause-of-npps-fall\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2025\\\/04\\\/06\\\/mahama-kept-his-promise-jantuah-slams-e-levy-as-cause-of-npps-fall\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2025\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/19f97c9b96bb4eec1ec652714cfea7e6\"},\"headline\":\"Mahama kept his promise &#8211; 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