National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has reminded the NDC that the only way they can remain in office is when they fulfil the campaign promises they made to Ghanaians.
To that end, he has urged all members of the party to put behind their differences and come together to help the Mahama administration achieve its mandate.
Addressing a gathering in Hohoe as part of his ‘Thank You’ tour of the Volta Region on Tuesday, October 14, Mr Asiedu Nketia said, ” The quest for appointment accompanied by some amount of struggle; there were struggles about who should be a minister or DCE. I want to remind all of us that enough is enough.
“The decisions have been taken and whoever has to be a minister has become a minister, whoever has to become an ambassador has become an ambassador, whoever has to become a DCE has become a DCE, so it is time for us to revert our minds to the promises we made to Ghanaians. Our continued stay in office depends on our ability to fulfil those promises.”
On the matter of the illegal small-scale mining (Galamsey) menace, he said the measures introduced by the government will start yielding results soon.
For him, it is too early to begin seeing results from the measures because the administration is only nine months old.
Mr Asiedu Nketia said, “People have been blaming the government for the promise to control galamsey, which we are yet to deliver on. They are blaming the government for our promise to create jobs for all the youth. Work has started but but it hasn’t shown results yet.
“I just want to remind everybody that, however hard you try, you cannot produce a child in less than 9 months. If you marry today and you say that people are teasing you, so I want to have a child. Can you produce a child in less than 9 months?
“So some of the things have their own timelines for maturity. If work has started on the control of galamsey, we don’t expect our rivers to be clean within that short time. Even if you stop the mining, it will take some time for the water bodies to be clean. If you stop the mining in forest reserves, it will take some time for us to reclaim the land, the forest and plant new trees. So I am happy about the progress being made. I want all of you to commend the government for the work that has been done so far.”
In relation to the Operation Recover All Loots (ORAL), Mr Johnson Asiedu Nketia said the government is still on course with the ORAL agenda, insisting that stolen monies by former public officials will be recovered and put to good use.
His comment comes after a former Auditor-General and member of the Operation Recover All Loots (ORAL) team, Daniel Yao Domelevo lamented the lack of prosecutions of former public officials who have been charged with corruption.
In an interview on The KSM Show, which was posted on YouTube on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, Mr. Domelevo bemoaned the fact that, nine months into President John Dramani Mahama’s administration, no former government official had been prosecuted despite the ORAL team’s intensive efforts to unearth cases of suspected corruption.
“I am not satisfied at all. This is because I can’t see the tunnel, let alone talk about the light at the end of the tunnel. In fact, the prayer of the culprits and their lawyers is that there should be a change in government, and then the new one will enter a nolle prosequi, and our money is gone,” he said.
“The procedure that the current Attorney-General is using is going to be very difficult. Nine months is not a small amount of time. Before we know it, we will have finished the term of President Mahama. So, I think we have to change the speed at which we are moving,” he added.
Asiedu Nketia assured Ghanaians that government is not pulling the brakes on ORAL cases.
“And we have promised to recover all the monies that have been stolen, we are not yielding and work has started seriously to ensure that these monies are recovered and they are put to good use,” he stated.