Shocker: Bawumia stripped ‘naked’ by MFWA for lies and inconsistencies at Ashesi lecture
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia’s recent speech on digitization has sparked some reactions from the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) as they have identified some inconsistencies and falsehood in his public lecture on the digital economy on Tuesday, November 3, 2021, at Ashesi University.
According to the Programs Officer of the (MFWA) Kwaku Krobea Asante, some claims made by the Vice President at the lecture were outrightly false whiles others were inconsistent with initial claims made by government officials on the same issue.
Mr Asante cited an example with the Vice president claim that the government had installed 10,000 CCTV cameras was not in tandem with initial claims made by President Akufo-Addo and National Security Minister Kan Dapaah that the government had so far fixed 6,500 CCTV cameras
‘’We set out to look for issues where the Vice was inconsistent with the facts. The Vice President said that the government had fixed 10,000 CCTV cameras now. Coincidentally, hours before he made that claim, the Minister of National Security had spoken at Parliament and he mentioned that 6,500 CCTV cameras has been installed.
“A month before this whole incident, the President was at a graduation ceremony by the Police and he also said 6,500 had been installed and he was hoping by the end of the year, 10,000 would be installed. His [The President’s] claim was consistent with the National Security Minister’s and inconsistent with what the Vice President said.”
He also indicated that Dr Bawumia’s claim that Ghana was the first to implement a motor insurance database was false.
“The Vice President also said the motor insurance base is the first in Africa, we found Nigeria had done it before we did it,” he said.
For him, although Ghana commenced the implementation of the Motor Insurance Database on January 1, 2020, to build a centralized system to help security agencies and the general public check the authenticity of vehicle insurance instantly, some African countries had already undertaken such projects on databases for the motor insurance sector.
As it stands now the MFWA through its Factcheck Ghana, are still going through the Vice President’s lecture and will put out a report on other portions of it when it finds anything unusual.
By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh
