{"id":275625,"date":"2011-02-06T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=51250"},"modified":"2011-02-06T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T08:35:08","slug":"what-a-hypocritical-societyill-continue-to-rain-insults-till-tony-aidoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/06\/what-a-hypocritical-societyill-continue-to-rain-insults-till-tony-aidoo\/","title":{"rendered":"What A Hypocritical Society\u2026I\u2019ll Continue To Rain Insults Till\u2026 &#8211; Tony Aidoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_34104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34104\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-34104\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/10\/13\/tony-aidoo-kufuor-only-wanted-monumental-legacies\/tony_aidoo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34104\" title=\"tony_aidoo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tony_aidoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Aidoo<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nIt has been part of politics,  especially in our part of the world. Politicians rely on it to express  misgivings about their opponents. Many a time, how one takes and  understands it would depend on which side of the bridge one belongs to.<br \/>\nI  am talking about what has commonly been referred to as the politics of  insults. It is instances where politicians hurl insulting words and  vituperations at each other, especially their opponents and  subordinates, as a means of expressing their divergent views on issues.<br \/>\nPoliticians  in Ghana have had a fair share of this from which the infamous \u201ccocoa  ase kurasinii\u201d, \u201ctaxi drivers are also people\u201d J. H. Mensah\u2019s \u201cwabodam\u201d  have all been evidenced.<br \/>\nMany people have expressed their  disappointments at these developments but often times; these have been  met with some more insults and or half-baked apologies.<br \/>\nPresident  John Evans Atta Mills has deplored these politics of insults many  times. In a tone of desperation, he once lamented, \u201cMy brothers and  sisters when you switch on our TVs, or our radio, you will think that  Ghana is at war. Many of us are engaged in politics of insults\u2026[but]  insults will not help us to produce\u2026water, insults will not create jobs,  insults will not bring about the peace and harmony that we need to  develop,\u201d questioning, \u201c\u201care we going to spend our time hurling insults  at one another while we leave the development of [the] country  unattended to?&#8221;.<br \/>\nOne of such vibrant politicians who have been  touted as being foul-mouthed is the Head of the Evaluation and Oversight  Unit at the Presidency, Dr. Tony Aidoo.<br \/>\nDr. Tony Aidoo many a  time has come under scathing attacks for having opened his mouth too  wide without giving concern to those at the receiving end. But the man  who has just been elected member of the 11-member African Union (AU)  Advisory Board on Corruption seems to be unperturbed.<br \/>\nIn an exclusive interview with <strong>Xfm 95.1<\/strong>,  a privately owned commercial radio in Accra, Dr. Tony Aidoo remains  indifferent. He says \u201cI rain insults- if they would want to call it  insults, because they called for it. They have over the years, since  1992 subjected our party and every living persona to insults\u2026\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cLook,  whatever they say about me will not dissuade me from defending the NDC  against their penchant of fabrication of falsehood against the NDC and I  will respond to them in every language that they would choose\u201d.<br \/>\nTaking  us down memory lane, Dr. Aidoo reveals that what has contributed to  this moral decadence among politicians is because \u201cthe so-called moral  society of Ghana\u201d has looked on almost helplessly as these insults have  increasingly taken roots.<br \/>\n\u201cThe first time I was accused of being  insulting was in a provocative reaction to Mr. J.H. Mensah\u2019s usage of  the word \u201cwabodam\u201d to his own peers at the Council of State. The  so-called moral society of Ghana, sat unconcerned\u2026 They did not think  that J.H. Mensah\u2019s usage of the word \u201cwabodam\u201d was not acceptable, until  I decided, to the extent that the moral society thinks it is an  acceptable word, then J.H. Mensah must have it as his middle name\u201d.<br \/>\nDr.  Aidoo decried the hypocrisy when it comes to issues as these bursting  out rather passionately, \u201cwhat kind of hypocritical society do we have;  do we have a standard; do we have a national value system?<br \/>\nSource: Abena Asiedua Tenkorang\/Xfm 95.1\/Accra\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been part of politics, especially in our part of the world. Politicians rely on it to express misgivings about their opponents. Many a time, how one takes and understands it would depend on which side of the bridge one belongs to. 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