{"id":10534,"date":"2025-04-17T09:49:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=10534"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:49:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T09:49:59","slug":"napo-blasts-mahamas-first-100-days-cites-decline-in-security-dumsor-and-anti-galamsey-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=10534","title":{"rendered":"Napo blasts Mahama\u2019s first 100 days, cites decline in security, dumsor, and anti-galamsey efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"s-tagline\">Former NPP running mate Matthew Opoku Prempeh has criticized President Mahama\u2019s first 100 days, citing worsening electricity supply, security issues, and failures in fighting galamsey and illicit trade.<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Former Member of Parliament for Manhyia South and 2024 NPP running mate, Matthew Opoku Prempeh (Napo), has delivered a scathing assessment of President John Dramani Mahama\u2019s performance after 100 days back in office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists on the sidelines of the NPP National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at the Alisa Hotel in Ridge, Accra, Napo was asked how he would rate President Mahama\u2019s performance out of 100.<\/p>\n<p>His response was blunt and critical.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-single-ad ad_single_index alignfull\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrap ad-script-wrap\">\n<div class=\"ad-script non-adsense edge-padding\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201c<em>It will be so bad, I don\u2019t want to rate him,<\/em>\u201d Napo declared. \u201c<em>I will list about eight things and tell you which of them have been improved. We had constant electricity, but what is happening now? We had galamsey as an issue, what is happening now? We had improved as a country on illicit drug issues. I\u2019m not talking about Rev. Ntim Fordjour; I\u2019m talking about arresting more culprits in the last three months than in the eight years we were in office.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting concerns about the country\u2019s security landscape, Napo alleged that arrests linked to currency and gold smuggling have surged under Mahama\u2019s watch, alongside troubling reports implicating NDC parliamentary candidates. &#8220;<em>We arrested more currency and gold smuggling in this country than we\u2019ve ever heard in the last three months<\/em>,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Touching on worsening violence in conflict-prone areas like Bawku, Napo expressed alarm over the rising death toll.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>When I wake up every day, I read about things going on in Bawku\u2026. More people have been killed in the last few months than probably was in the last four years. I was hoping that his [President Mahama\u2019s] tenure, we would not deteriorate<\/em>,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-single-ad ad_single_index alignfull\">\n<div class=\"ad-wrap ad-script-wrap\">\n<div class=\"ad-script non-adsense edge-padding\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1738328175066-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Napo concluded his critique by questioning the gap between the President\u2019s promises and actions: \u201c<em>Talk is cheap, because if you can\u2019t support your talk with actions<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NPP running mate Matthew Opoku Prempeh has criticized President Mahama\u2019s first 100 days, citing worsening electricity supply, security issues, and failures in fighting galamsey and illicit trade. 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