The aspiring National Democratic Congress (NDC) Presidential Candidate, John Dramani Mahama, has launched a digital fundraising platform to finance his 2024 campaign.
Speaking at a public lecture on Financing Political Campaigns in Ghana, President Mahama launched his digitalized retail donation campaign “to mobilize small contributions from Ghanaians, both locally and in the diaspora.”
The platform, the former President noted, is transparent and has a dashboard screen that will show all inflows in real-time.
He stated that the initiative will address the reliance on a few individuals who finance political campaigns in exchange for favours, which is a recipe for corruption in any democracy.
“Such an intervention will address the dependency on a few individuals who finance political campaigns in return for favours – a recipe for corruption in any democracy. And if I may add, CSOs and other public-spirited organisations can also adopt this system of broad-based resource mobilization to fund their activities to limit the strictures that sometimes accompany donor-funded research and advocacy in developing countries such as Ghana.” Mahama indicated
Click below for the full speech of Mr Mahama.
https://www.johnmahama.org/files/shares/Media_Copy_Speech_on_Campaign_Financing_UPSA.pdf
