Lawyer Ackumey argues people have to look at the context in which the deputy Minister used those words. According to him, people are taking the words out of the context and putting their own spin and interpretation to it.
Deputy Minister of Tourism, Kobby Acheampong received a lot of bashing after describing Nana Akufo Addo as a “fruitcake” when addressing some members of TEIN in KNUST.
A lot of people including the NPP called on President Mills to remove him from his position for his “insulting behavior, rudeness and arrogance, since that does not befit the high position of Deputy Minister and he is a disgrace to governance in our country.”
According to him, Kobby Acheampong is not the first people to have used abusive language as a minister and catalogued a litany of examples to buttress the point that there have been several instances where people from the other side of the political divide went ballistic, yet no one complained or condemned it.
Speaking on Joy FM’s News file Programme, Mr. Ackumey said calls for President Mills to sack Kobby Acheampong are farfetched. He questioned why Mr. Acheampong should be sacked when nobody have been sacked in the past for similar behavior.
According to him, when NPP activists used intemperate language, they were cheered and sometimes even applauded but when the NDC does the same, people jump at their throat.
He was of the view that the best action in this case for President Mills to take is advise perpetrators of foul speech to tone down, adding that “he does not even believe there are people who shoot their mouth in the Mills government”.
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