Former power minister Kwabena Donkor has accused civil society organisations (CSOs) and clergy of double standards as Ghana’s presidential election nears.

Donkor claims that CSOs and senior clerics become overly critical only when a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is leading the country’s government.

However, the former minister did not mention an instance of the CSOs and clerics failing to hold the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration accountable.

‘When it is [John] Mahama in office, you find senior clerics firing on all cylinders’, Donkor reportedly told Francis Abban on the Morning Starr.

‘When it is somebody else, they say they are advising them behind the scenes. If the hypocrisy of Ghanaian civil society and the church will be addressed, I can assure you that 60 percent of the votes will go to NDC’.

Former President John Mahama will be challenging President Nana Akufo-Addo of NPP for the most powerful office in Ghana on 07 December, 2020.

Meanwhile, some CSOs in Ghana have filed a suit against the directive by President Akufo-Addo asking Auditor General Daniel Domelevo to proceed on leave.

Domelevo, Development Diaries understands, has been on mandatory leave since 01 July, 2020 following Akufo-Addo’s order.

It was gathered that an appeal by the civil society groups to have the decision rescinded was rejected by the presidency.

‘We had hoped that the president would reconsider his decision in light of the deleterious effect of his action on public accountability and the fight against waste and corruption in the management of public finances’, the nine CSOs said in a joint statement.

‘Unfortunately, that has not happened. Instead, certain developments since the auditor-general was forced to leave his office have only gone to worsen the situation, leaving us with no option but to seek the intervention of the courts’.

Source: Modern Ghana

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