News:
August 28, 2017
The Minority in Parliament said the Deputy Minister of Agriculture, William Quaitoo has demonstrated ungratefulness to the people of the three regions in the north by suggesting that they are “difficult people”.
According to the Minority leader, Mr. Quaitoo’s comments amount to subjecting the people of the three regions in the north to such a “profound level of insults, ridicule and indignity”.
Mr. Quaitoo while reacting to complaints from farmers in the north on how their farms have been destroyed by fall armyworm and subsequent appeal for some forms of compensation, stated that: “if anybody who is in the Northern and said his farm was destroyed by warm invasion the person must prove it. Our brothers (in the North) it is so difficult to deal with them, I lived there for 27 years I speak Dagbani like a Dagobah and all that”.
“They are very difficult people nobody can substantiate if anybody says that his farm was destroy by armyworm, the person would have to come and prove it. We have no records of that, it is just a way of taking money from the government that’s what that do all the time” he said.
Meanwhile the Deputy Minister later issued a statement apologizing and retracting claiming he did not think about the possible consequences of his comments.
The Deputy Minister later issued an apology and retraction claiming he did not think about the possible consequences of his comments.
In a statement issued on Monday, the Minority leader described the apology of the Deputy Agriculture Minister as “grossly inadequate, insincere, hypocritical” and not deep enough to assuage the profound pain and huge damage done to the good image and integrity of the people of the three regions in the north.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com