Declaring car gifts doesn’t change the fact that Mahama breached the law and accepted a bribe - PNP

The People’s National Party (PNP) has criticised President John Dramani Mahama implicit his determination to judge car gifts, adjacent though helium aboriginal declared and donated them to the state.

According to the party’s National Chairperson and founder, Janet Nabla, the president should not person accepted the vehicles successful the archetypal place.

President Mahama handed implicit 2 vehicles that were talented to him to the state’s conveyance pool. He made the declaration connected Monday, May 5, 2025, successful enactment with his recently unveiled Code of Conduct for authorities appointees.

However, Madam Nabla has condemned the president’s actions, arguing that this constitutes a breach of existing laws connected gifts.

She pointed retired that the Commission connected Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has wide guidelines connected the acceptance of gifts, which she claims the president has violated and should beryllium sanctioned for.

According to her, the vehicles successful question autumn nether the class of prohibited gifts outlined successful the CHRAJ argumentation and should beryllium considered arsenic bribery.

Speaking connected Frontline connected Rainbow Radio 97.5 FM, the PNP person stated that if the president wants to acceptable a bully example, helium indispensable look consequences for his actions, which would service arsenic a deterrent to others.

She told the host, Kwabena Agyapong, that the president has performed poorly successful his archetypal 120 days successful office, giving him a people of minus 2 retired of ten.

She besides dismissed the recently launched Code of Conduct arsenic a governmental maneuver.

“Is Mahama truly talking astir a Code of Conduct? CHRAJ guidelines intelligibly prohibit nationalist officers from accepting gifts. If idiosyncratic wants to donate anything, it should beryllium done successful the sanction of the state, not an individual. Accepting specified gifts is simply a crime,” she said.

“President Mahama has admitted to accepting 2 vehicles arsenic gifts, which amounts to bribery. He indispensable beryllium punished for violating the law.”

“President Mahama is simply a rule-breaker. He has breached the law. Gifts are ne'er genuinely free; they tin power decisions and undermine transparency, accountability, and ethical leadership. We indispensable clasp the president accountable earlier expecting others to uphold the law.”