Member of Parliament (MP) for Adansi Asokwa, Kobina Tahir (KT) Hammond, has angrily descended on young people who booed the President at the recent Global Citizen Festival at the Black Star Square in Accra.
According to him, young people are unwise and have empty heads, which is why they behaved in such a manner.
Speaking angrily during an interview, he slammed the youth for having ‘heads like coconuts’ and for ‘gallivanting about town with beards with nothing in your head’.
“We don’t live in a country and do that. Let’s be humble. Whatever we do, the president is the executive head of this country. When he came, he didn’t say anything. It wasn’t even a political platform. He only said the event has brought the attention of the world on Ghana and the youth started booing at him. We will always tell the youth to be humble. When a matter comes up, we say we are going to consult elders. We don’t say we are coming to consult the youth whose heads are like coconut.,” Hammond angrily said.
“We consult the elderly on matters because they are wise. But because of politics, we do anything with the elderly. Let it even be a political platform that you can heckle but it wasn’t even a political rally.
“The youth should respect the elderly. We shouldn’t let it be that because of politics we can insult everyone. It’s not possible for the youth to be left to manage the affairs of the country. They won’t know how to do it in the first place. You don’t understand. You are galivanting about in this town with beard, nothing is in your heads,” he said in the Twi parlance.
His comments come after the President was heavily booed during an appearance at the Global Citizen Festival.
Appearing on-screen to deliver prepared remarks, the assembled crowd immediately started booing, chanting ‘away, away’.
The incident has sparked separate reactions from the two leading parties. Whilst NDC supporters insist it’s an expression of the true feeling of the people, NPP supporters and officials claim the booing was organised by the NDC.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com