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NPP can lose 2020 elections because of Menzgold - Maurice Ampaw

January 15, 2019 12:16 PM

Private legal practitioner and political commentator, Maurice Ampaw, has posited that the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) could lose in the 2020 general elections.

Private legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw

He said the debacle around locked-up funds of Menzgold customers can cause Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo to lose power.

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The controversial lawyer opined that if the NPP does not tread cautiously in the handling of the Menzgold issue, it will cost them heavily at the polls.

“The insults and the name calling are too much. For instance Finance Minister referring to them as greedy and footsoldiers calling them all sort of names on social media," he said on Okay FM.

He compared the current situation to the loss of depositors funds at DKM and said it was one of the main reasons the NDC lost in 2016.

Dr. Lawyer Maurice Ampaw ece-auto-gen

"Those saying Menzgold Company was operating illegally should refrain from that propaganda. Were they not paying taxes and SSNIT to government? Can a fraudster pay tax and SSNIT to government?", he said.

"Government was aware of Menzgold operations. Government and Bank of Ghana are deliberately collapsing Menzgold because their operations are allegedly collapsing the Bank of Ghana and Ken Ofori Atta's Databank,” he alleged.