Reading the Enquirer of Wednesday 17th February, 2009, I could not help but start laughing. The story was captioned “Journalist Paid 15BN for Guard Dog Duty”.
It is a fact that many journalists were in bed with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and some are still in bed with this current administration.
The Enquirer newspaper put it out that an audit report had revealed that some journalists, serial callers and defenders of the then government (NPP) had benefited from some free cash at the Ministry of Information.
I want to praise Raymond Archer or he would say there was no by-line so he won’t take the credit.
His interview on Radio Gold was funny and I say funny because he claims journalists have betrayed the citizenry because they have taken monies from the government of the day.
Raymond Archer’s friends, I mean his new found and old ones have betrayed the citizenry for a long time and he should tell them to stop it.
Another point that intrigues me is that the Enquirer newspaper said that some journalists were paid to act as guard dogs for the NPP government.
In the run to the 2007 NPP flagbearership race, Archer’s paper came out on a day that it was not expected and am asking whether I can conclude that he was doing a guard dog duty for that candidate?
I want to ask an interesting question; since January 2009, what has been the job description of Mr. Archer and my friends at the Enquirer?
To be frank, they have been acting as guard dogs for the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) headed by John Evans Atta Mills.
One of his friends is a senior journalist whose specialty is strategizing with President Atta Mills on policies and even giving him tutorials on the answers to give when he met the press earlier this year.
This journalist is the same person Raymond Archer now claims is his new found friend and if I may ask when Raymond Archer visited his offices one fine Friday afternoon with envelopes full of cash in his pockets, were they from his own pockets or another source?
This journalist had to clear himself and make the new government believe that he was not on the National Security payroll under the NPP to get some favour.
I also want to know if Raymond Archer is now off the National Security payroll, I say this because he could not muster courage when he was dared by a colleague he worked with at the Chronicle to publish the list of journalists on the payroll. I am waiting very enthusiastically for that list.
Indeed, the likes of Archer and KP have solidly regrouped around President Atta Mills, to the extent that their take on all comers who criticize the NDC, leads one to only one conclusion; they are guard dogs of the ruling NDC.
Are the likes of Raymond Archer and KP and ….. getting paid to do the ax jobs for Atta Mills?
For KP I can say one thing, anything that belongs to him was a gift from a love one and the gifts ranges from his wife, kids, cars, printing press and so on.
If you recall, on the day that Francis Poku’s house was evaded by Police, three persons were in his house and one of them was the first person to call Peace Fm to break the news.
One of the three persons is a minister now and other just got on radio to hit hard at Jerry Rawlings following his long absence whilst the other continues to enjoy the support of a foreign mission in our country.
What were they doing there as early as 6:30 am in the morning? Did they go there to greet him or it was a norm for the three to go and greet the former National Security Coordinator daily?
What about the presenters who go and collect monies and refuse to sign against their names and the drunks who say boastfully in chop bars that they are on the National Security payroll.
It is therefore not surprising that when the recipient of the VULTURE AWARD was shown a document at National Security that showed that some of his colleagues benefited under President Kufour, it caused him to go into fanatical confessions like a born again Christian.
NB: Those using my email address and facebook account for stupid things should please stop.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Zuma's African PR Problem
A cartoonist for Uganda's The New Vision newspaper summed it up: a woman in a miniskirt leans into President Jacob Zuma's bedroom, where he is in bed with his three wives.
"Sweetie, I've come to pick up money for baby's Pampers," she says, while in the background a politician speaks to a crowd demanding they "stop having multiple sex partners and unprotected sex".
As news of the president's love child went viral, the continent talked back. It wasn't all bad news, though. Zuma found some pockets of love from Africa.
In Kenya's Daily Nation, one reader wrote in to say the media must "kindly back off and leave JZee alone".
"It's in the interest of the Zulu culture to have as many children as possible," the reader noted. "What you guys are doing is like telling the Maasai to stop herding cattle …"
But another hit right back: "I am not sure what African custom/tradition some of you are purporting to defend. In my African customs you and Zuma would be rolled down the hill in a bee-hive."
Prince Prah, a columnist on a Ghanaian news website, Ghana Web, wrote a stinging piece entitled "South Africa's Sex-President".
"It is sad that at the World Economic Conference in Davos, Switzerland, the [most] exciting contribution from South Africa had nothing to do with economy and development but President Zuma's statements about his polygamy, his promiscuity and Zulu culture," he wrote.
He warned that, in the eyes of ordinary Africans, South Africa appears to be going the same way as the rest of the continent.
"In a country where women's rights used to be taken seriously, his treatment of women as sex objects puts all South African women to ridicule. Polygamy may be accepted among his Zulu stock, but his fathering of a love child raises grave moral questions."
Well-known Zimbabwean journalist Basildon Peta wrote that a scandal of this magnitude in a Western democracy would have seen a leader like Zuma tossed out of power.
"Mr Zuma is unlikely to leave office despite the mounting pressure on him," Peta lamented on unfreemedia.com. "His largely illiterate supporters, his main power base in rural areas, will keep him in office."
But the SMS of the day on The Namibian scolded those who dared to challenge Zuma's freedom to breed, channelling ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema.
"It is disappointing to see and hear people talking left and right about the now famous African child, but nobody is reminding them about the respect that they have to maintain towards all the elders," the paper's website noted. "We are living in fear, African children please behave."
Source: Additional reporting by Tarryn Harbour, Lisa Steyn and Vuvu Vena- South Africa’s Mail &Guardian of 12-18 February, page 4
"Sweetie, I've come to pick up money for baby's Pampers," she says, while in the background a politician speaks to a crowd demanding they "stop having multiple sex partners and unprotected sex".
As news of the president's love child went viral, the continent talked back. It wasn't all bad news, though. Zuma found some pockets of love from Africa.
In Kenya's Daily Nation, one reader wrote in to say the media must "kindly back off and leave JZee alone".
"It's in the interest of the Zulu culture to have as many children as possible," the reader noted. "What you guys are doing is like telling the Maasai to stop herding cattle …"
But another hit right back: "I am not sure what African custom/tradition some of you are purporting to defend. In my African customs you and Zuma would be rolled down the hill in a bee-hive."
Prince Prah, a columnist on a Ghanaian news website, Ghana Web, wrote a stinging piece entitled "South Africa's Sex-President".
"It is sad that at the World Economic Conference in Davos, Switzerland, the [most] exciting contribution from South Africa had nothing to do with economy and development but President Zuma's statements about his polygamy, his promiscuity and Zulu culture," he wrote.
He warned that, in the eyes of ordinary Africans, South Africa appears to be going the same way as the rest of the continent.
"In a country where women's rights used to be taken seriously, his treatment of women as sex objects puts all South African women to ridicule. Polygamy may be accepted among his Zulu stock, but his fathering of a love child raises grave moral questions."
Well-known Zimbabwean journalist Basildon Peta wrote that a scandal of this magnitude in a Western democracy would have seen a leader like Zuma tossed out of power.
"Mr Zuma is unlikely to leave office despite the mounting pressure on him," Peta lamented on unfreemedia.com. "His largely illiterate supporters, his main power base in rural areas, will keep him in office."
But the SMS of the day on The Namibian scolded those who dared to challenge Zuma's freedom to breed, channelling ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema.
"It is disappointing to see and hear people talking left and right about the now famous African child, but nobody is reminding them about the respect that they have to maintain towards all the elders," the paper's website noted. "We are living in fear, African children please behave."
Source: Additional reporting by Tarryn Harbour, Lisa Steyn and Vuvu Vena- South Africa’s Mail &Guardian of 12-18 February, page 4
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Mills’ Chief Of Staff Imports 2,150 Bags Of Rice!
Mr. John Henry Martey Newman, the Chief of Staff of President Professor Atta Mills is a Ricemaster! He has imported two containers full load of Indian US Style Rice with each containing 1075 bags.
The rice coming from Port Jabel Ali in Dubai with the agent’s address at the destination of the goods as Intermodal Shipping Agency Ghana (ISAG) located at Community 2.
The two containers with numbers FSCU3680322 and TGHU2786196 were discharged in the country on the 12th of January 2010 via MV Pac Aries.
The consignee of the 2,150 bags of rice is the Chief of State, the President’s Office, Castle, Accra, Ghana West Africa but this paper’s check in Dubai indicates that the rice were meant for the Chief of Staff.
Last week Thursday when this paper got into contact with the shipper in far away Dubai, the only response we got was “what do you want from us; the rice is for the Chief of Staff”.
A day after the call from this office to Dubai, an agent was seen at the offices of ISAG trying to go through the formalities so that the goods can be cleared following which this paper alerted Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a deputy minister of information for him to pass this information on to the National Security.
As at press time yesterday when this paper got into contact with Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, he said, the rice is still at the port and investigations are still underway.
The rice coming from Port Jabel Ali in Dubai with the agent’s address at the destination of the goods as Intermodal Shipping Agency Ghana (ISAG) located at Community 2.
The two containers with numbers FSCU3680322 and TGHU2786196 were discharged in the country on the 12th of January 2010 via MV Pac Aries.
The consignee of the 2,150 bags of rice is the Chief of State, the President’s Office, Castle, Accra, Ghana West Africa but this paper’s check in Dubai indicates that the rice were meant for the Chief of Staff.
Last week Thursday when this paper got into contact with the shipper in far away Dubai, the only response we got was “what do you want from us; the rice is for the Chief of Staff”.
A day after the call from this office to Dubai, an agent was seen at the offices of ISAG trying to go through the formalities so that the goods can be cleared following which this paper alerted Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a deputy minister of information for him to pass this information on to the National Security.
As at press time yesterday when this paper got into contact with Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, he said, the rice is still at the port and investigations are still underway.
Monday, February 8, 2010
South Africa's Sex-President
Nothing is working in Ghana and we don’t know who is in control, the greedy bustards or the inward looking guys but we are at least much better than South Africa where the people are now saddled with a problematic President.
The problem with President Jacob Zuma is not a disease but his reckless libido. It is sad that at the World Economic Conference in Davos , Switzerland , the more exciting contribution from South Africa had nothing to do with economy and development but President Zuma's statements about his polygamy, his promiscuity and Zulu culture.
Democracy throws up all sorts and that is probably what makes it beautiful. Whatever it throws up, society gets a chance to learn fresh and often unimaginable lessons. After the end of apartheid, South Africans had Nelson Mandela as President. He is father of the nation, the eternal symbol of South African renaissance.
His successor, Thabo Mbeki cut a fine picture of decorum and dignity. The current President is neither Mandela nor Mbeki: he has nothing of their attributes. He came to power riding the wave crests of populism but as President he has robbed the office of its gravitas, turning South Africa into a laughing stock.
He has confirmed the average African's worst fears, that in good time, South Africa often touted as a special African country (under Mandela and Mbeki) will go the way of other African countries. Zuma , South Africa 's most prototypical African President to date, has proven this to be true. In a country where women's rights used to be taken seriously, his treatment of women as sex objects puts all South African women to ridicule. In a country where HIV/AIDS poses a serious public health challenge his love of unprotected sex jeopardises the safe sex campaign. Polygamy may be accepted among his Zulu stock, but his fathering of a love child raises grave moral questions.
Zuma has 20 children from so many women. A former wife committed suicide claiming that marriage to Zuma was "hell". He has three official wives, all playing the role of First Lady collectively and in turns. The mother of his latest child, a love child, is the daughter of his friend, Irving Khoza, head of South Africa 's World Cup 2010 organizing committee and owner of the Orlando Pirates football club.
Zuma has had to pay a fine as Zulu custom requires for putting Somono Khoza in the family way outside wedlock. He insists that he loves his wives equally. He was once quoted saying he could not contract HIV because he took a shower after having unprotected sex. Jacob Zuma may be good at winning popular votes, but as President, he is working too hard at becoming an embarrassment to his country.
He has complained about excessive media scrutiny of his private life. He talks about his cultural rights. How about his responsibilities as a national role model? His party, the ANC is preaching a "one partner" message to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS but the President keeps many women and talks about cultural rights. In 2005, he was accused of raping another friend's daughter.
He is scheduled to visit the United Kingdom in March as a guest of the Queen. In June, South Africa will be hosting the World Cup. What will South Africans do with their President: other men will be afraid to leave their wives alone with him for a second.
While Jacob Zuma hops from one bed to another, the black voting majority which brought him to power in the hope that he will show a better understanding of their plight in post-apartheid South Africa is badly short-changed. They remain poor, homeless and alienated as they keep wondering: what has the end of apartheid brought us? The opposition wants President Jacob Zuma to undergo a sex-addiction therapy. ANC members want Zuma to be left alone.
They should be singing Lethu Mshini Wani (Bring me my machine gun) and their guns should be trained on Zuma if that will force him to concentrate on the job. It is a shame.
The problem with President Jacob Zuma is not a disease but his reckless libido. It is sad that at the World Economic Conference in Davos , Switzerland , the more exciting contribution from South Africa had nothing to do with economy and development but President Zuma's statements about his polygamy, his promiscuity and Zulu culture.
Democracy throws up all sorts and that is probably what makes it beautiful. Whatever it throws up, society gets a chance to learn fresh and often unimaginable lessons. After the end of apartheid, South Africans had Nelson Mandela as President. He is father of the nation, the eternal symbol of South African renaissance.
His successor, Thabo Mbeki cut a fine picture of decorum and dignity. The current President is neither Mandela nor Mbeki: he has nothing of their attributes. He came to power riding the wave crests of populism but as President he has robbed the office of its gravitas, turning South Africa into a laughing stock.
He has confirmed the average African's worst fears, that in good time, South Africa often touted as a special African country (under Mandela and Mbeki) will go the way of other African countries. Zuma , South Africa 's most prototypical African President to date, has proven this to be true. In a country where women's rights used to be taken seriously, his treatment of women as sex objects puts all South African women to ridicule. In a country where HIV/AIDS poses a serious public health challenge his love of unprotected sex jeopardises the safe sex campaign. Polygamy may be accepted among his Zulu stock, but his fathering of a love child raises grave moral questions.
Zuma has 20 children from so many women. A former wife committed suicide claiming that marriage to Zuma was "hell". He has three official wives, all playing the role of First Lady collectively and in turns. The mother of his latest child, a love child, is the daughter of his friend, Irving Khoza, head of South Africa 's World Cup 2010 organizing committee and owner of the Orlando Pirates football club.
Zuma has had to pay a fine as Zulu custom requires for putting Somono Khoza in the family way outside wedlock. He insists that he loves his wives equally. He was once quoted saying he could not contract HIV because he took a shower after having unprotected sex. Jacob Zuma may be good at winning popular votes, but as President, he is working too hard at becoming an embarrassment to his country.
He has complained about excessive media scrutiny of his private life. He talks about his cultural rights. How about his responsibilities as a national role model? His party, the ANC is preaching a "one partner" message to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS but the President keeps many women and talks about cultural rights. In 2005, he was accused of raping another friend's daughter.
He is scheduled to visit the United Kingdom in March as a guest of the Queen. In June, South Africa will be hosting the World Cup. What will South Africans do with their President: other men will be afraid to leave their wives alone with him for a second.
While Jacob Zuma hops from one bed to another, the black voting majority which brought him to power in the hope that he will show a better understanding of their plight in post-apartheid South Africa is badly short-changed. They remain poor, homeless and alienated as they keep wondering: what has the end of apartheid brought us? The opposition wants President Jacob Zuma to undergo a sex-addiction therapy. ANC members want Zuma to be left alone.
They should be singing Lethu Mshini Wani (Bring me my machine gun) and their guns should be trained on Zuma if that will force him to concentrate on the job. It is a shame.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Ghanaian Rulers And Treasury
Let Ghanaian political office holders off the Ghanaian treasury. Let the President and other professional politicians be in charge of governance only while people with integrity and good character are placed to control our money and this will have its consequences in checking corruption in Ghana’s public offices.
It will curtail the rat race for public offices and reduce electoral malpractices.
sIn my attempt to look for the greatest good for the greatest number, I am suggesting that a Trust be founded as a pool to control all Ghanaian income and expenditure.
I am not oblivious of the fact that those my suggestion will affect negatively will ferociously oppose this idea and therefore will do everything to scuttle it.
I expect people to say this idea will create two parallel governments or government within government. No, what I am simply suggesting is a kind of Trust manned by people with proven integrity who can only release money for running costs, salaries and for programs to be carried out by people in government.
When any project to be executed has passed due process and has been vetted by the Ghanaian public, the members of the Trust will now release the monetary instrument for its execution directly to the contractors on the advice of either the President or the Minister or anybody who is implementing such program.
This will not only check the menace of kickback and undue influence, it will eradicate the culture of paper contractors and unnecessary middlemen.
We only hear billions, billions and billions of cedis being spent on our behalf by Ghanaian rulers every day but without having anything to show for it in term of development and infrastructure in our Country. All we see are the mansions of Ministers, Legislators and even special aides.
Because they are wicked but very stupid, these corrupt politicians dangle their wealth nakedly on the faces of more than 80 per cent of Ghanaians who wallow in abject poverty among whom are millions of university graduates.
Since Ghanaian rulers have been living like that unchecked in our almost 53 years of independence, there is no shaking as they have nothing to fear, after all, they are the boss and do not need our votes which never count in elections. They assume all the time that we are helpless.
The cabal has continued to use our commonwealth to harass and oppress the people it is supposed to look after because it has direct access to the Ghanaian vault.
Take America for example, the rulers set out their programs and those in charge of the money will release it to agencies or contractors that are to execute those projects and that is why you only see isolated cases of corruption in public offices in America. You will never see a public official becoming rich by virtue of his office in America. Whoever is rich among the political office holders there must have been rich before coming to public office.
Apart from the advantages that I have stated, this idea will empower contractors to do their work very well. A situation where a government official has to award a contract to a company or person with a condition that 5 per cent of the contract sum be paid back to him is wicked. Such a condition will put the contractor under undue pressure of executing the contract very well, meeting the running costs and making some profit.
It does not even stop at this point. We have seen so many cases of abandoned government projects over the years because good fraction of the money the contractor would have used to execute the project has been taken from him for personal use by the official who awarded the contract. When the contractor is in short of money to execute the project not to talk of making profit from it, the project is thus abandoned.
A government official who demanded and took a huge kickback from a contractor for awarding the contract which is his official duty through which he earns salaries from tax payers’ money will have no courage to persuade or force the contractor to finish the project.
It will curtail the rat race for public offices and reduce electoral malpractices.
sIn my attempt to look for the greatest good for the greatest number, I am suggesting that a Trust be founded as a pool to control all Ghanaian income and expenditure.
I am not oblivious of the fact that those my suggestion will affect negatively will ferociously oppose this idea and therefore will do everything to scuttle it.
I expect people to say this idea will create two parallel governments or government within government. No, what I am simply suggesting is a kind of Trust manned by people with proven integrity who can only release money for running costs, salaries and for programs to be carried out by people in government.
When any project to be executed has passed due process and has been vetted by the Ghanaian public, the members of the Trust will now release the monetary instrument for its execution directly to the contractors on the advice of either the President or the Minister or anybody who is implementing such program.
This will not only check the menace of kickback and undue influence, it will eradicate the culture of paper contractors and unnecessary middlemen.
We only hear billions, billions and billions of cedis being spent on our behalf by Ghanaian rulers every day but without having anything to show for it in term of development and infrastructure in our Country. All we see are the mansions of Ministers, Legislators and even special aides.
Because they are wicked but very stupid, these corrupt politicians dangle their wealth nakedly on the faces of more than 80 per cent of Ghanaians who wallow in abject poverty among whom are millions of university graduates.
Since Ghanaian rulers have been living like that unchecked in our almost 53 years of independence, there is no shaking as they have nothing to fear, after all, they are the boss and do not need our votes which never count in elections. They assume all the time that we are helpless.
The cabal has continued to use our commonwealth to harass and oppress the people it is supposed to look after because it has direct access to the Ghanaian vault.
Take America for example, the rulers set out their programs and those in charge of the money will release it to agencies or contractors that are to execute those projects and that is why you only see isolated cases of corruption in public offices in America. You will never see a public official becoming rich by virtue of his office in America. Whoever is rich among the political office holders there must have been rich before coming to public office.
Apart from the advantages that I have stated, this idea will empower contractors to do their work very well. A situation where a government official has to award a contract to a company or person with a condition that 5 per cent of the contract sum be paid back to him is wicked. Such a condition will put the contractor under undue pressure of executing the contract very well, meeting the running costs and making some profit.
It does not even stop at this point. We have seen so many cases of abandoned government projects over the years because good fraction of the money the contractor would have used to execute the project has been taken from him for personal use by the official who awarded the contract. When the contractor is in short of money to execute the project not to talk of making profit from it, the project is thus abandoned.
A government official who demanded and took a huge kickback from a contractor for awarding the contract which is his official duty through which he earns salaries from tax payers’ money will have no courage to persuade or force the contractor to finish the project.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Konadu Bombs Mills, Kwabena Agyei!
On The Reshuffle…
The oft-propagated claims by adherents of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) that President Atta Mills is transparent has come under attack, from no less a source than the wife of the founder of the party, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings! Nana Konadu, who is the 1st Vice Chair of the NDC, has waded into the mounting intra party anger over the appointment of three key leaders on the Majority Bench in Parliament for Ministerial jobs.
Mrs. Rawlings told Citi Fm in an interview yesterday that President Mills’ nomination of Majority Leader, Alban Bagbin, Deputy Majority Leader, Hon John Tia, and Majority Chief Whip, Hon ET Mensah for executive jobs, was undemocratic because it was done without adequate consultations with key party figures.
She has therefore faulted party Chairman, Dr Kwabena Agyei, for failing to consult the newly elected national leadership of the party ahead of the nomination of the three majority front benchers for executive positions.
The NDC Chairman had claimed in an earlier interview with the same station that President Mills duly consulted the NDC leadership ahead of his reshuffle on Monday and the decision to raid the Majority front bench was taken along with the NDC Executive!
But this assertions has been challenged by Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings who claims that none of the newly elected executives were consulted stressing that ‘these are the things that have made some of us go into the party so that we will have at least a democratic way of doing things in our party’.
“We have to first find out if Dr. Kwabena Adjei was consulted as an individual or he was consulted as the chairman of our party. If he was consulted as Chairman, he was elected as a member of the party to chair the party’s activities; we also as national executives were equally elected to the party.
“So I think that if he was consulted, then he should also have come to consult the rest of us so that collectively we can give our ideas or feelings towards this decision”, she said.
“The chairman cannot take a decision for the rest of us without informing us, and he is not a rubber stamp’, she fumed. The former First Lady’s comments come at a time the Majority MPs are preparing to face President John Mills to reject outright what they see as the President’s attempt to impose a new majority leadership on them.
Hon. Cletus Avoka and Rashid Pelpuo have confirmed to the media that they are going to be the replacements for Hon Bagbin and Hon John Tia on the Majority front bench.
This assertions has also been challenged by James Agyenim Boateng, a Deputy Minister of Information who said on Radio Gold on Wednesday that the ‘two men did not have sufficient understanding’ of what the President told them.
The oft-propagated claims by adherents of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) that President Atta Mills is transparent has come under attack, from no less a source than the wife of the founder of the party, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings! Nana Konadu, who is the 1st Vice Chair of the NDC, has waded into the mounting intra party anger over the appointment of three key leaders on the Majority Bench in Parliament for Ministerial jobs.
Mrs. Rawlings told Citi Fm in an interview yesterday that President Mills’ nomination of Majority Leader, Alban Bagbin, Deputy Majority Leader, Hon John Tia, and Majority Chief Whip, Hon ET Mensah for executive jobs, was undemocratic because it was done without adequate consultations with key party figures.
She has therefore faulted party Chairman, Dr Kwabena Agyei, for failing to consult the newly elected national leadership of the party ahead of the nomination of the three majority front benchers for executive positions.
The NDC Chairman had claimed in an earlier interview with the same station that President Mills duly consulted the NDC leadership ahead of his reshuffle on Monday and the decision to raid the Majority front bench was taken along with the NDC Executive!
But this assertions has been challenged by Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings who claims that none of the newly elected executives were consulted stressing that ‘these are the things that have made some of us go into the party so that we will have at least a democratic way of doing things in our party’.
“We have to first find out if Dr. Kwabena Adjei was consulted as an individual or he was consulted as the chairman of our party. If he was consulted as Chairman, he was elected as a member of the party to chair the party’s activities; we also as national executives were equally elected to the party.
“So I think that if he was consulted, then he should also have come to consult the rest of us so that collectively we can give our ideas or feelings towards this decision”, she said.
“The chairman cannot take a decision for the rest of us without informing us, and he is not a rubber stamp’, she fumed. The former First Lady’s comments come at a time the Majority MPs are preparing to face President John Mills to reject outright what they see as the President’s attempt to impose a new majority leadership on them.
Hon. Cletus Avoka and Rashid Pelpuo have confirmed to the media that they are going to be the replacements for Hon Bagbin and Hon John Tia on the Majority front bench.
This assertions has also been challenged by James Agyenim Boateng, a Deputy Minister of Information who said on Radio Gold on Wednesday that the ‘two men did not have sufficient understanding’ of what the President told them.