Ras Mubarak
The Acting Chief Executive Officer of the National Youth Authority (NYA), Ras Mubarak, is taunting Ghanaians, saying that if they are fed up with the erratic power supply popularly called dumsor, they can vote out the NDC.
In what can pass as a cheeky remark, the young politician posted on Facebook, a social media platform, that “I’m quite tired of hearing ‘you will see what we’ll do to u in 2016.’ The worse is to vote against us. Our world didn’t end when we went into opposition.”
The country’s power crisis has worsened under the Mahama-led government, with government struggling in vain to remedy the situation.
Currently, industries and major businesses are collapsing as a result of the dumsor, whilst many workers continue to lose their jobs.
Deadlines set by the government to end the crisis have elapsed and Ghanaians continue to remain in the dark as to when the problem would finally be solved.
Many Ghanaians, including celebrities, have expressed disgust at the government’s handling of the crisis but a number of NDC appointees have sought to disparage those who want the government to sit up over the dumsor.
In the ensuing confusion, Ras Mubarak, who lost the Ablekuma North parliamentary seat on the ticket of the NDC, appears to taunt Ghanaians for complaining too much.
He said on Facebook that “if governments after Nkrumah had thought about the long term, as JM (John Mahama) is doing, we won’t be complaining about dumsor today. So please feel free to vote against us for thinking and doing things for a Better Ghana, but u will not only thank us tomorrow, you will live in regret, like we are today, for all the bad things we said and did to Nkrumah.”
He asked, “What use is fixing dumsor temporarily only for it to reoccur in six or seven years?”
He said Ghanaians should be proud to have a president who is not “thinking about the next election, but about what is good for Ghana,” and warned that Ghanaians “may wish to have a John Mahama as your President many years when he’s gone, but it will be way too late.”
Barely 24 hours after the comment which made even some NDC members to call on President Mahama to sack him, Ras Mubarak issued an apology trying to calm nerves.
Speaking on Citi FM yesterday, he said: “My comments in respect of the fact that if after attempting or actually seeing things that will actually help Ghanaians in the long run is something not to be appreciated, we should be voted against. For that I think it was quite inappropriate and I sincerely apologise for that.”
However, he appears to have reiterated what landed him in trouble, for which he had offered the apology, by saying that “a lot of hard work is being put in place to ensure that we save Ghanaian lives. What I said was that the president was doing a lot of good things and we should look at those good things as the basis for judging the president. So that if you are going to say that he feels nothing about dumsor then that is quite unfair. But I cannot take the inalienable right of every Ghanaian to criticise and express their frustrations and exasperations.”
By William Yaw Owusu
Via: -Daily Guide
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