{"id":275540,"date":"2011-02-05T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T09:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=51069"},"modified":"2011-02-05T09:15:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T09:15:27","slug":"call-sir-john-to-orderhes-too-reckless-in-his-speech-ablakwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/05\/call-sir-john-to-orderhes-too-reckless-in-his-speech-ablakwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Sir John To Order\u2026He\u2019s Too Reckless In His Speech &#8211; Ablakwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_34100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34100\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-34100\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/10\/13\/okudzeto-renovates-office-at-c360m\/okdzeto_ablakwa\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34100\" title=\"okdzeto_ablakwa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/okdzeto_ablakwa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Okudzeto Ablakwa<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nDeputy Minister of Information,  Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has lashed out at the General Secretary of the  opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie for alleging  that government is trying to massage figures of the 2010 Population and  Housing Census from the Volta Region.<br \/>\nSpeaking on Metro TV\u2019s Good Morning Ghana show, Mr. Ablakwa described Sir John\u2019s statement as reckless and bloodthirsty.<br \/>\nTo  him, Sir John\u2019s wild allegation could have plunged the nation into a  state of confusion, adding the only thing that probably saved the  situation was the fact that majority of Ghanaians do not pay heed to  him.<br \/>\n\u201cSir John put out a wild allegation that government is  trying to bloat the Volta Region figures that is why the statistical  service could not declare the provisional results. That is a very  reckless and bloodthirsty statement which could have plunged this nation  into something else if it had not been that the majority of Ghanaians  really know Sir John and probably do not take him serious. If he was  taken serious and people wanted to react to what he said, you can  imagine what would have happened,\u201d he stated.<br \/>\nHe noted that Sir John is doing more harm to the NPP than good.<br \/>\n\u201cSir  John is isolating other regions\u2026he is only interested in results from  the Ashanti region and has not even taken his time to analyze the data.  If he isolates all the other regions\u2026 all nine regions might decide to  rise up against the Ashanti region because of this recklessness, loose  talk without basis and evidence,\u201d he warned.<br \/>\nAccording to him, it  does not only take the Ashanti region to win election, emphasizing that  census collation is not about winning an election but about  development.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t understand these fixation on Ashanti region  as if you need only one region to win an election, our parties must be  national in character and we must take interest in or at least be  concerned with all the other regions. This whole census thing is about  development, not just about winning election, I get the impression that  some of our politicians only care about winning election and coming into  power,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nHe reckons that Sir John\u2019s penchant for  recklessness has gotten out of hand adding that it is about time some  cool heads within the NPP call him to order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minister of Information, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has lashed out at the General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie for alleging that government is trying to massage figures of the 2010 Population and Housing Census from the Volta Region. 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