The Chairman of the National Democratic Congress Council of Elders of South Africa, Mr. Benjamin Kofi Quashie has berated President Akufo-Addo for labelling members of the NDC as troublemakers.
He describes the president’s actions as very unlucky and unfair.
Speaking to Joy News, Monday, twenty seventh November, 2023, the NDC Council of Elders chair averred that, for the president to criticise the actions of individuals he finds as illegal is apt however, lacks equity if all the time directed at members of the NDC.
Highlighting some examples of incidences which members of the NPP dedicated which had been illegal, however which the president failed to lift a whisker, he narrated the scenario the place “Kennedy Agyapong openly ridiculed a judge when he used very unprintable words against him. The president was silent about it “, he emphasised.
Again, he recounted that, at a public occasion when the president criticised a chief for sitting down when the National Anthem was being performed, “we applauded him” for that present of statesmanship.
Coincidentally, after per week or later, his daughter did an identical factor and the president hasn’t condemned it”, adding the chief apologised afterwards for his actions, citing ill health as the reason but up till today, the President’s daughter hasn’t said anything concerning her behaviour, neither has she apologised.
“Is it that there are totally different units of guidelines for Ghanaians?; that should you’re an NDC individual the president sees you as a hassle maker?”, he quizzed again.
However, Mr. Quashie concurred the president has the right to criticise any Ghanaian whose actions flout the laws of the land and has the tendency to jeopadise our collective peace but, cannot pick and choose which one to criticise. To him, that is unfair, unacceptable and doesn’t befit a president.
He argued that the NDC members were at the former President’s office to embark on a clean up exercise and it had nothing to do with violence, which the president chose to criticise.
“I believe that it’s sensible to sentence actions which can be deemed illegal; it is a good name and the decision ought to be to all Ghanaians by the president, however he can not choose and select”, he affirmed.
Mr. Quashie claimed leaders who want their countries to grow and progress must be even in their actions and our leader, the president, must be exhibiting same tendencies, adding “If you choose and select, individuals do not take your points severely”, he emphasised once more.
Background
The Ghanaian Times reviews that, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has condemned the brandishing of machetes and weapons on the workplace of the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President John Dramani Mahama, stressing that no particular person or group shall be allowed to destabilise the peace and safety of the nation.
The story provides, the President was of the idea that the brandishing of these weapons was not an indication of issues to occur within the 2024 election and that Ghanaians could be allowed to go about their duties with out disturbances from any quarters.
“I want to state that under my watch, no person or group of persons, no matter their political coloration will be allowed to destabilise our country to destroy the peace all of us are enjoying. It will not happen!” he emphasised.
President Akufo-Addo, who was talking on the valedictory service of the outgoing moderator of the Presbyterian Church, Rt Rev. Professor Joseph Ofori Yeboah Mante, on the Victory Congregation of the church at Frafraha in Adenta yesterday, stated, there was the necessity for all Ghanaians to wish for the nation’s peace and unity with a purpose to transfer ahead as a individuals.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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