Kwesi Pratt hails President Mahama's bold stance on assets declaration

The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr, has praised President John Dramani Mahama for taking an unprecedented enactment against authorities appointees who failed to state their assets by the March 31, 2025, deadline.

According to Pratt, this marks the archetypal clip successful Ghana’s past that a sitting president has taken factual steps to clasp nationalist officials accountable nether the law request for plus declaration.

“Declaration of assets is simply a law obligation, but nary sitting president successful our past has taken factual steps to punish appointees for failing to comply nether the law request for plus declaration until now,” helium stated.

Speaking connected Metro TV's Good Morning Ghana, and monitored by GhanaWeb connected May 7, 2025, Kwesi Pratt said with the last deadline here, each eyes are connected President Mahama arsenic the federation awaits his adjacent people of enactment regarding those who person inactive not declared their assets.

Pratt added that however the president proceeds from this constituent volition either reenforce oregon weaken nationalist spot successful the government’s committedness to accountability.

“The president has taken the archetypal bold step. What happens adjacent volition find whether this becomes a turning constituent oregon conscionable a symbolic motion to either reenforce oregon weaken nationalist spot successful the government’s committedness to accountability,” helium said.

The plus declaration request is simply a law regularisation that mandates nationalist officials to state their assets and liabilities upon assuming and leaving office.

While the instrumentality has existed for decades, enforcement has remained lax.

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