In a triumph for Ghana, and for African democracy, power successfully changed hands in the election, and the new President, John Atta Mills was sworn in today, January 7, 2009.
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And read the biographical profiles of both President Mills and his Vice President, John Drahami Mahama.
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January 24, 2009 at 2:23 am
the africa confidential freebie is again on ghana – focusing on mills this time
Back to the Battleground: After a celebrated election, President John Atta Mills takes on a fractious parliament
i still don’t have a good enough grasp of ghana’s politics to judge the tone of the piece, but it contains a fair amount of info
January 28, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Mills’ party has a narrow parliamentary majority and needs to make alliances with the smaller minority parties to get things done. When he picks ministers from the parliament he further dilutes that majority. He also has a difficult situation dealing with a huge amount of outright theft by the NPP, how to deal with it and apply justice without looking vindictive (not unlike Obama’s situation with Bush war crimes.) The NDC is the party of Rawlings, therefor some regard it as the “coup party”. There is a certain amount of rough stuff in its past.
The article is pretty good background. The big issue right now is the outgoing NPP bought a huge number of luxury cars for Ghana@50, and those cars have “disappeared”, or were sold at the equivalent of about $300 to top NPP people. Paperwork and records are pretty much missing. Additionally, the NPP parlaiment, before the changeover, authorized huge sums for two houses and six cars for the outgoing President Kufuor, known to many people as Thiefuor. There are other thefts as well. With Ghana’s money problems this has made many very angry.
The World Bank has told Mills that Ghana has no money, and they are leaning on him, surprise surprise. They were always full of praises for Kufuor.