The legal debate follows party lines that hark back to how the NPP governments of Presidents John Agyekum Kufuor and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo deployed the security services versus what Mahama has done since bringing his NDC to power last year...
Their prime target is former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's New Patriotic Party (NPP) government who has been charged with multiple counts of financial malfeasance (AC Vol 64 No 6 Fights over debt and public spending are shaping the election campaign AC Vol 67 No 4 Bawumia returns to revive defeated NPP & Vol 67 No 9 Court pulls the rug from under anti-corruption drive)...
The predecessor scheme the Accra Initiative launched by then President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to coordinate security cooperation between Benin Burkina Faso Ghana and Togo was more prescriptive and bureaucratic and eventually broke down...
Like his predecessor Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo Mahama is believed to oppose the bill personally as violating human rights and has struck an ambivalent public tone on the proposed law (AC Vol 66 No 1 Mahama may struggle to walk the talk)...
In February 2024 MPs of the eighth parliament passed a version of the bill first laid in Parliament in 2021 but it lapsed after the then President Nana Akufo-Addo (New Patriotic Party) declined to sign it amid Supreme Court challenges by civic groups...
Like the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of President Nana Akufo-Addo which it defeated in the December 2024 elections the NDC wanted to take back the mine but its demands were more ambitious...
President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo's government established the OSP by in 2018 as a legislative response to this conflict in the structure of the Attorney-General's Office...
In 2024 for the first time since 1993 the government – under then President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – chose not to raise a syndicated loan on global markets to buy the harvest...
He remains the NPP's best-known figure having served as Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's running mate since the 2008 general elections...
Akonta is at the centre of allegations of politically connected galamsey in protected forest reserves under the previous government led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo...
A prime target for NDC militants is the Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng appointed by former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo whose handling of corruption charges against officials in the former government is coming under growing scrutiny...
After a financial meltdown and default under President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's New Patriotic Party (NPP) government the cedi has recovered in 2025: by November it had gained 35% against the United States dollar 28% against the British pound and 21% against the euro...
