{"id":341197,"date":"2011-03-26T23:07:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T23:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/26\/sekou-nkrumah-mills-politics-of-insult-reprove-was-mere-political-talk\/"},"modified":"2011-03-26T23:07:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T23:07:04","slug":"sekou-nkrumah-mills-politics-of-insult-reprove-was-mere-political-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/26\/sekou-nkrumah-mills-politics-of-insult-reprove-was-mere-political-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sekou Nkrumah: Mills’ ‘Politics Of Insult’ Reprove Was Mere Political Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Sekou Nkrumah has emphatically stated that he does not think President Mills will rein in his ministers who are using abusive language on their opponents because, to him, the president does not see anything wrong with such statements.<\/p>\n

Dr. Nkrumah, a member of the NDC and an ardent critic of President Mills was contributing to discussions on the growing rate of insults in Ghana\u2019s body politic on Joy FM\u2019s current affairs programme Newsfile Saturday.<\/p>\n

Dr. Nkrumah , son of Ghana\u2019s first President Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, said President Mills will not crack the whip \u201cbecause he doesn\u2019t think that what they (his ministers) are saying is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the president was merely trying to win some political favours when he admonished religious and political leaders to eschew insulting language.<\/p>\n

There have been calls for President Mills to sanction his ministers who have verbally attacked their political opponents in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), but Dr. Nkrumah is of the view that his onetime boss will not be moved, insisting many officials on both sides think alike and share such mutual enmity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I joined the NDC and I met former President Kufuor for the first time – I think it was like a joke – but he said you have gone to join some bad people,\u201d insisting that such a statement reflects the mentality of both leaders on the political divide.<\/p>\n

Even though he appreciates concerns raised about some level of irresponsible reportage by the media, he believes \u201cthe media has done very well,\u201d warning that \u201cin a sense we should be careful not to try to suppress or manipulate the media.\u201d<\/p>\n

He indicated that \u201cit is important for us not to undermine the independence of the media but to encourage it than to try to manipulate or to suppress them again. I think we don\u2019t need to go back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Nkrumah wants all stakeholders to learn to use \u201crefined language\u201d during any political discourse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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