[ 2017-03-23 ]

Bus branding scandal cost us 2016 election – Twum Boafo
Former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana
Free Zones Board, Kwadwo Twum Boafo has said that
the mistakes of the National Democratic Congress
(NDC) on the issue of the Bus Branding saga could
have been avoided.

In an interview with Accra based GhOne TV, Mr
Boafo explained that he is not proud of the
mistakes the party made during the bus branding
exercise.

‘’Everybody makes mistakes, it is in the
nature of humans to make mistakes, the bus
branding episode as far as I’m concerned was
completely avoidable.’’

The Metro Mass Transit Limited is a public
transportation company in Ghana. The company was
set up to provide reliable and affordable means of
transport for commuters within villages, towns,
and cities as well as provide intercity movement.

In 2015 under the erstwhile Mahama government, it
was alleged that GHC3,649,044 was spent on the
re-branding of 116 buses for the Metro Mass Rapid
Transit (MMRT) imported to improve the transport
system in the country.

The GH¢3.6 million branding contract for 116
Metro Mass Transit (MMT) buses was awarded to
Selassie Ibrahim, an activist of the ruling
National Democratic Congress (NDC).

According to Twum Boafo, scandals such as the
Smartty's deal dented the good image of the NDC, a
situation which contributed to the party's defeat
in the 2016 polls.

“The size of the margin surprised me, the
arguments that the leaping conditions of people in
this country that our opponents have been making
had had an effect, I thought we had a cogent
argument at the time,’’ he asserted.

Explaining how the NDC was going to put money into
the pockets of Ghanaians should the party had won
the election, Mr Boafo said the Mahama-led
government was putting in place certain things
that the country needed to make lives of citizens
comfortable such as massive infrastructural
developments which is very important.

‘’You can’t tell me that roads, hospitals,
schools, water treatment plants to resolving our
myriad of problems with power generation wasn’t
important, it was important,” he said.

Source - GhanaWeb.com

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