[ 2014-02-07 ]

President must sanction deputy Minister for attacking Mrs Rawlings
With the call on Ghanaians by the President to do
away with acrimony in our body-politics, the
recent attack by Murtala Mohammed on the
personality of the Former First Lady, Nana Konadu
Agyeman-Rawlings, shows clear disregard to the
directive of the President, by making a mockery of
his advice.

The Former First Lady was simply expressing her
economic opinion during an address at a function
organized by the Private Investors Protection
Agency (PIPA) where she spoke on: “Attracting
Investors into Ghana: The Role of Integrity and
Honesty".

Her address was a-political, devoid of
insinuations and insults, one wonders where the
Deputy Minister who had not had the benefit of
reading the full text of her address went ahead to
rain insults and attacked the Former First Lady by
questioning her capacity to comment on national
economic issues and that she was seeking media
attention.

The Minister went ahead to rope in the Former
President, H. E. J.J. Rawlings, with his insults
by saying that “ the way her husband J. J.
Rawlings managed tax revenues 20 years ago is the
same way the current government is managing
taxes”.

The National Democratic Party (NDP) was well
represented at the occasion and takes a serious
view of the unsavory comment by the Deputy
Minister.

The Former First Lady has never engaged in
politics of insults and definitely does not do
things because of media attention.

The NDP is therefore calling on the President to
immediately sanction the Deputy Minister of
Information.

If a personality like the Former First Lady who
for 19 years occupied the position of First Lady
and has mass experience in numerous areas, in the
view of the Deputy Minister does not have the
capacity to express her opinion on economic
issues, then who can in this country?


Thank you.


MR. H. F. AMOAKO

SECRETARY GENERAL

Source - H. F. Amoako

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