Will you steal from us to feed or what – Solomon Owusu questions Mahama over six-month salary donation

A starring subordinate of the Movement for Change, Solomon Owusu, has raised concerns implicit President John Dramani Mahama’s determination to donate six months of his wage to the Mahama Cares aesculapian fund.

According to Owusu, the president’s superior root of income is his salary, and donating specified a important information raises questions astir however helium intends to prolong himself and his family.

He further questioned whether Mahama plans to trust connected different undisclosed sources of income, perchance from the state.

Owusu expressed his skepticism astir the donation, arguing that portion specified gestures whitethorn look commendable, they often conceal ulterior motives.

“The motion by President Mahama, donating six months of his wage to the Mahama Cares aesculapian fund, is thing I don’t privation to hear,” Owusu stated successful an interrogation with Onua FM connected Thursday, May 8, 2025.

“We are paying the president to work, truthful however volition helium provender himself? Is helium going to bargain from us? The past clip we heard specified a claim, it was said that Ken Ofori-Atta, a authorities appointee, did not person a salary, yet helium amassed wealthiness done his bank, Databank, by securing loans for the country,” helium added.

Owusu further questioned the rationale down Mahama’s donation, arguing that the authorities pays the president to work, not to springiness distant his earnings.

“The authorities is paying you to work, truthful wherefore are you giving distant your salary? Your occupation is to beryllium the president and thing else, truthful wherever volition you get wealth to provender yourself? The past clip idiosyncratic gave you a car, you said you had donated it to the state. If you don’t instrumentality bribes oregon person different sources of income, however volition you survive?” helium asked.

President John Dramani Mahama pledged six months of his wage to the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, besides known arsenic the Mahama Cares initiative, during the motorboat of the money astatine the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) connected Tuesday, April 29, 2025.

Announcing the donation, Mahama commended Ghanaians who had already contributed to the fund, emphasizing that, arsenic its founder, helium indispensable besides play his portion successful ensuring its success.

“Prof. Ayetey, a retired doctor, has donated $1,000 to the Ghana Medical Trust. That should promote each of us, particularly firm institutions, to bash adjacent more. As the initiator of this laudable program, I indispensable besides contribute.

“And so, I’ve pledged six months of my wage to Mahama Cares. I haven’t started receiving a wage yet—they accidental the Accountant General is inactive processing it, but erstwhile that’s completed, six months of immoderate I’m entitled to volition spell into Mahama Cares,” helium stated.