News:
March 19, 2014
Deputy Minister of Fisheries, Hon. Aquinas Tawiah Quansah has taken a swipe at former Director of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Prof. Stephen Adei for stating that President John Mahama and other ministers of state of lying to Ghanaians.
According to him, President Mahama as the leader of the country has made statements to Ghanaians based on the information available to him and will not deliberately lie to the people.
Professor Adei at a two-day marriage seminar in Tema said “the president, minister and everyone are lying. This country seems to be getting a culture of lying to each other and the media unfortunately are spearheading it.
“It is not only the president. There is too much lack of candour in our system and it is hurting us,” he said.
Citing President John Mahama’s comment on the economy, Prof Adei said it was clearly wrong for the president to claim that Ghana’s economy is doing well.
“Everyone on the street knows that the economy is not in a good shape…We cannot be told that things are easy when things are hard,” he stated.
He said the country’s leaders must stop the lying to the people if they have any intention of developing the country.
Prof. Addai also expressed his displeasure about the huge resources in the form of vehicles and motorcade used by the President in his convoy and the amount of fuel the cars consume at a time when the economic situation in the country worsens by the day.
However speaking on e.tv Ghana’s Breakfast TV show on Wednesday, Hon. Aquinas Quansah who is also the Member of Parliament for Mfantseman, disagreed with the professor’s critic of the President.
“What vehicle the professor was expecting the President to drive in, what vehicle the professor himself drives to his hometown, I’m sure his village will be in need of a borehole or something but that does not determine the car he drives” he stated.
Hon. Aquinas Quansah wondered why Prof. Adei used a marriage seminar platform to make such statements as there was no correlation.
“ The man was supposed to talk about marriage to the gathering but he ends up saying this about the President, this is uncalled for” he stressed.
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