Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw
Owusu
Friday, January
29, 2016
Constitutional law lecturer, Professor Kofi Kumado, says the motive
behind the bus rebranding venture embarked upon by the National Democratic
Congress (NDC) government is just to advertise President John Mahama’s bid for
a second term in office and nothing else.
Details about the GH¢3.6 million cost of the rebranding to the
taxpayer set tongues wagging recently and it also led to the resignation of
Dzifa Ativor as Minister for Transport.
Passionate
Appeal
In the ensuing confusion, the respected Professor at the Faculty of
Law, University of Ghana, Legon, has offered to share his opinion on the matter
through a letter to DAILY GUIDE, criticizing how the NDC is abusing its incumbency.
The letter, dated January 23, 2016 signed by the erudite law
lecturer, he appealed passionately to the families of former presidents who
have their images on the buses to request the government to remove them because
they would not need the publicity.
“My appeal is to former Presidents Rawlings and Kufuor as well as
the families of the late President Akufo-Addo to ask that their pictures should
be removed from the buses because, in my humble view, they do not need this
publicity.”
He added, “Thereafter, it will become clear that this rebranding is
just politicking by President Mahama.”
Moving
Advertising
He said that “The buses will then be seen clearly as moving advertising
boards for President Mahama’s bid for a second term in office.”
Prof Kumado also said if the families succeed in getting the
pictures of the former presidents removed, it “will enable the Metro Mass Company
to charge him (President Mahama) the appropriate rates and earn some income.”
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