{"id":334552,"date":"2011-03-24T10:47:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T10:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/24\/sack-your-ministers-bishop-tells-mills\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T10:47:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T10:47:44","slug":"sack-your-ministers-bishop-tells-mills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/24\/sack-your-ministers-bishop-tells-mills\/","title":{"rendered":"Sack Your Ministers – Bishop Tells Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church and President of the Christian Council of Ghana (CCG), Reverend Prof. Emmanuel Asante, wants President John Evans Atta Mills to sack his appointees who have cultivated the bad habit of insulting their political opponents.<\/p>\n

Bishop Asante believes such individuals and group of persons do not set good example for the youth to follow as they have little or nothing to offer the country.<\/p>\n

Rev. Asante was speaking on Accra-based Oman FM in reaction to recent insults heaped on the New Patriotic Party (NPP)\u2019s standard bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and other people by the Deputy Ministers of the Interior and Works and Housing, Kobby Acheampong and Hannah Louisa Bissiw respectively.<\/p>\n

The President has been calling on Ghanaians to shun politics of insults, but strangely, insults seem to be part of the daily assignments of his appointees. The two deputy ministers are on record to have made very disparaging remarks about their political opponents in the NPP when they addressed members of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) branch of the Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Kumasi.<\/p>\n

Kobby, who is notorious for making unsubstantiated allegations, was caught on tape describing Nana Akufo-Addo as a \u2018fruit cake,\u2019 and later addressed him (Akufo-Addo) as an untidy person. Dr. Bissiw, a Cuba-trained veterinarian, on the other hand, described leading NPP activist Ursula Owusu as a \u2018disgrace to womanhood\u2019 and Nana Addo as a \u2018sexy old fool\u2019.<\/p>\n

Both initially denied the comments but when the tape was played to them, they were found wanting. \u201cPeople like this should all be sacked because they have nothing to offer us. That\u2019s why I keep saying that people in government, whether members of the ruling NDC or the opposition or whichever individual who describes himself as a politician and would stand on a platform to trade in insults, politics of invectives\u2026we should not think about such people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said it was high time government and especially President Mills stamped his authority and brought such people to order since their utterances did not only augur well for government and the country\u2019s politics in general.<\/p>\n

He identified the incidence of insults, threats and lying as the three main issues affecting Ghana\u2019s politics and therefore admonished the country\u2019s politicians to desist from indulging in them.<\/p>\n

The Bishop likened governance to a person selling a product, noting that one only had to advertise the product and tell people why they needed to buy it.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, if you go and stand somewhere and insult a friend, or excuse me to say, a person who can give birth to you, it doesn\u2019t bring anything, it doesn\u2019t bring development but violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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