[ 2016-04-23 ]

Send us cash via mobile money – Casely-Hayford to Mahama
Financial Analyst and social commentator Sydney
Casely-Hayford, has advised President John Dramani
Mahama to consider remitting monies he promised
Ghanaians in his next term through money transfer
platform, mobile money.

According to him, the mobile networks reach out to
every part of the country and could help him in
that regard. Mr. Hayford’s rather sarcastic
suggestion, follows President Mahama’s recent
assertion to the effect that he could not as a
President move around the country to put money in
people’s pockets, and that people ought to
create wealth for themselves by taking advantage
of the economy.

“The thing is that; if you say feeling it in
your pocket it doesn’t mean the President will
come from place to place and count money and give
to everybody to put in his pocket. The economy
will provide the opportunities but it is for the
people to take advantage of it. You can’t be
sitting with his hands crossed and saying that if
the economy is growing why I am not feeling it.
You need to take advantage of the opportunities
that the economy is creating and that is how money
comes into your pocket,” he added.

The President’s latest assertion, however
contradicted the one he made in February where he
promised that Ghanaians would have money in
their pockets after he is given a second term in
the November elections.

Speaking on Citi FM’s news analysis and current
affairs programme ‘The Big Issue’ on Saturday,
the plain-speaking Sydney Casely Hayford said,
“I was thinking he [ President Mahama] doesn’t
have to go throughout all the country doing that,
if he really intends to put money in people’s
pockets, we can take mobile money. So we can do it
from a central point; from Vodafone Cash, Tigo
Cash, Glo Cash, MTN mobile money and all that,”
he added.

Mr. Casely-Hayford said the President’s comment
was inappropriate, adding that he could have
communicated in a much better way.

“If he wanted to say that I will create the
environment so you can create wealth through the
good infrastructure and the good issues in the
economy so you will be worth more in 2017, I’m
sure that president Mahama could have said that,
if that was really what he had intended. So I have
to assume that he either intended it but didn’t
take his time to say it properly or what he
intended was to persuade the voting public that he
will put money directly into your pocket. He has
said categorically that he cannot go through the
whole country physically paying cash out to
everybody. I find that denigrating,” he added.

Source - citifmonline.com

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