The National Communications Director of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has taken shots at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, Kobina Tahir (K.T) Hammond.
K.T Hammond recently attacked the youth for booing President Nana Akufo-Addo at the recently held Global Citizens Festival, calling them empty coconut heads and saying they’re not ready to rule a country with such behaviour.
However, in a riposte, Sammy Gyamfi said K.T Hammond is just struggling to win the favour of President Akufo-Addo with his words after being neglected by the President for the past five years.
“What he did and the things he has said are very condemnable, very shameful. It should not be coming from a senior politician like him. I know that he is trying to catch the eye of President Akufo-Addo having been ignored for the last five and half years but this is not the way to go about it,” Gyamfi said.
“The man says that young people in this country are airheads, there is nothing in our heads. Our heads are like coconut. We cannot manage the affairs of this country. Is that how an elderly person is supposed to speak? The young people of this country have every right to praise the duty-bearers of our country when they are doing the right thing,” Sammy Gyamfi continued.
“They also have every right to call them out, to criticize them and even when the situation demands, to hoot at them when leaders have become numb to their felt needs and are not showing any care or sensitivity about their problems and any genuine desire to address those problems and turn their fortunes around.
“They have very right to do so. What happened was a show of protest and it happens in every part of the country. It doesn’t mean young people in this country don’t respect elderly folks,” he added.
K.T Hammond 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.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com