The electric vehicles Mahama received and donated to the State
The Minister in charge of Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has explained why President John Dramani Mahama received a car gift before returning it to the state.
He clarified that the cars were offered by two businesses that were introducing and marketing their new battery-powered automobiles, and they recognized that the President’s prominence may be a calculated move to link their brand to the president.
Hon. Felix Ofosu Kwakye stressed that the President did not require the cars because the state has supplied for him in full; yet, the President complied with the law’s demand that gifts over a specific amount be returned.
He added that the return was timed to allow the President to set an example by coinciding with the introduction of a code of conduct. The President could have kept the cars without anyone noticing, he said, but he opted for openness.
“On the day the Code of Conduct was being launched it was important that an example is set. The president could have received the vehicles quietly and nobody would have known that he had received any vehicles. But he declared them. As I have said here, there are a lot of things that people don’t get to hear.
They went to pay a courtesy call on him and inform him that they have started bring environmentally friendly vehicles as part of efforts to safeguard the environment. And that, these are electric vehicles they want to promote as one of the ways of government’s efforts to transition to green energy and therefore given his personality if he was associated with that kind of movement he was going to create public awareness, that is all it was.”
Hon. Felix Ofosu Kwakye addressed questions about why the President accepted a car gift before donating it back to the state.
He explained that the cars were presented by two companies that were launching and promoting their new battery-powered vehicles, and they saw that the… pic.twitter.com/87fPRa7ysD
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