Former Deputy Minister of Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has called the level of profligacy in the Akufo-Addo government unmatched in the history of Ghana.
According to him, the fact that Akufo-Addo still carries a chair around wherever he goes is proof that he doesn’t feel the suffering of Ghanaians and continues to live a profligate life.
He said the President’s predecessors never felt the need to move around with a chair during periods when Ghanaians were not even suffering this much.
“…Don’t we all see the president carries a chair around? When he was campaigning and eating yor ker gari [beans, plantain and gari] and ampesi in their homes, did he ever say he will carry a special chair? So, it was what they say ‘okraman ahobrasie’ – to wit – a humility of a dog. He was lying to the people he went to eat yor ker gari to show that he was one of them…” Kwakye Ofosu thundered.
“It is arrogance and a waste of public resources. When President Mahama was president, he did not carry chairs to people’s studios and chief’s palaces…? The president of this country is obliged according to our status and I am saying that, to use taxpayer’s money to go and buy a special chair and move around with it; they have a specialized vehicle that carries that chair, we’ve seen the pictures. They have a converted pickup with material covering it in which they put that chair.
“The president is not the monarch; this is not the stool at Kyebi. He is not in line to be Okyenhene over Ghana. If he wants to be a monarch, he should go and be Okyenhene. When you are president, you are obliged to act according to reason and common sense that a country that is going through this suffering is permitted to have a president with such lavish taste,” he continued.
The former Member of Parliament for Abura Asebu Kwamankese constituency said that this shows Akufo-Addo possesses a special level of arrogance and he has completely overdone his overspending.
“When he was campaigning, he was not sitting in any special chair and President Mahama, President Kufuor and President Rawlings have all been president and they did not carry any special chairs around. So, there is a special level of arrogance, waste and profligacy being exhibited by this president and that must be condemned. He must be told in plain language that he has overdone it,” he stressed.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com
