The Communications Director of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Richard Ahiagbah, says the lead convener of the Ku Me Preko Reloaded demonstration, private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu, is inciting Ghanaians against the country’s top leadership.
Speaking on Newsfile on Joy News on Saturday, November 5th 2022, the day of the demonstration, Ahiagbah said the utterances of Kpebu sound like those of a person with a personal grudge against the President, Akufo-Addo, his Vice, Bawumia, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, and others.
According to Ahiagbah, such personal vindictive attacks must not be tolerated in our politics.
“The key point for me which is different for me in this case is that it appears my brother Martin Kpebu is going on emotive tangent and where I find it almost destabilising in his conversation is to incite the population against the person or President, against the person of the Vice President and the Finance Minister. It is almost personal,” he said.
Martin Kpebu, a vociferous government critic, is leading the Ku Me Preko reloaded demonstration, calling for President Akufo-Addo’s resignation over the hot economic conditions in the country.
Some civil society organisations including FixTheCountry, Arise Ghana, Economic Fighters League and other activists have joined the demonstrators, saying the President and his government have not done enough to alleviate the plight of citizens in the struggling economy.
“We are dying; citizens are dying; citizens can’t afford food; citizens are starving all because of misgovernance by President Akufo-Addo. It never happened that you have a president in office and every time that the country borrows, the president’s family becomes richer; how?”
“This can’t continue. We can’t borrow all the time and have Databank becoming richer all the time. Citizens have a duty as stated in Article 41 [of the Constitution] to ask the president to resign and this is not the first time that a president of Ghana is going to resign,” Martin Kpebu said.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com