Bolgatanga Central Member of Parliament (MP), Isaac Adongo, has fired back at the “Terminator” label given to President John Dramani Mahama by the opposition NPP.
Former Finance Minister Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam yesterday referred to President Mahama as “Terminator 1.” The minority accused the President of mass dismissals in the public sector to accommodate party loyalists.
President Mahama, through his chief of staff, revoked a series of last-minute public sector appointments made by the outgoing administration after December 7, 2024. The new government insisted that these appointments lacked due process and legitimacy, but the NPP Minority in Parliament accused him of hypocrisy, reminding him of his own stance in 2016, when he defended an outgoing administration’s right to appoint officials until midnight on January 7.
But reacting on GHOne TV’s State of Affairs, Isaac Adongo flipped the narrative on its head, redefining Mahama as the “Terminator of waste, corruption, and recklessness.”
“Yes, Mahama is a terminator—but a terminator of waste, a terminator of corruption, and a terminator of recklessness!” Adongo declared.
“He has already terminated private jet rentals, cathedral corruption, and reckless borrowing. “He is the Terminator of defaulting on payments and declaring bankruptcy”, Adongo emphasized.
Isaac Adongo also dismissed claims that Mahama was indiscriminately sacking public sector workers, arguing instead that Mahama was cleaning up the mess left behind by the previous administration.
“Some people are crying about job losses, but we need to ask: Were those jobs even legitimate?” he quizzed.
“If the people who were sacked were properly employed, then yes, we will end up employing more than those who were asked to go home, because their appointments were irregular.”, Isaac Adongo insisted.
Mr. Adongo further revealed the terminations were also necessitated by threat to the country’s fiscal space.
“You don’t just wake up one day and say, ‘Let’s employ people’ when there is no budget to pay them!”, he explained.
“The biggest problem wasn’t just about job terminations—it was a fiscal crisis!”, he further stated.
Adongo slammed claims that Mahama is simply cutting jobs, stating that his administration is fixing the economic crisis and restoring integrity to public sector appointments.
“If terminating useless spending is a crime, then call Mahama The Terminator,” Adongo added.
The “Terminator” label is just the latest in a series of nicknames that have followed Mahama throughout his political career.
During his previous tenure, he was called “Mr. Dumsor”—a reference to the chronic power outages (“off-on”) that plagued Ghana.
