{"id":425974,"date":"2011-05-18T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T08:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/18\/ghana-has-no-time-to-give-coffee-to-sleepy-drivers\/"},"modified":"2011-05-18T08:30:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T08:30:55","slug":"ghana-has-no-time-to-give-coffee-to-sleepy-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/18\/ghana-has-no-time-to-give-coffee-to-sleepy-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ghana Has No Time To Give Coffee To Sleepy Drivers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>The spokesperson of the Rawlingses and Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Kofi Adams has taken a swipe at Vice President John Dramani Mahama\u2019s recent allegory that the driver of the symbolic Yutong Bus of the NDC should be given coffee in order to complete the journey he has embarked on.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President made the remarks in reaction to comments made by NDC MP for Lower Manya Krobo, Hon Michael Teye Nyaunu who lampooned the Mills-Mahama led government likening the administration to a brand new Yutong bus full of sleeping and wide-awake passengers who lack the courage to reprimand the reckless driver at the steering wheel for his bad motoring skills.<\/p>\n<p>The outspoken NDC MP accused the current administration of taking knee-jerk decisions in running the affairs of the country, adding that the only way to prevent the bus from veering off course is to change the driver (President Mills).<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President, John Mahama, made a mockery of the MP\u2019s analogy, saying \u201ca mate could not replace a Chief Driver to take over the steering wheels.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mr. Kofi Adams who was with former President Rawlings during the arrival of Dr. Ekwow Spio Garbrah noted that Ghana is tired of drivers who cannot take passengers to their specific destinations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need a driver who can drive a bus that takes off from the station with drunkards, those who talk too much, those sneezing and coughing to their destinations. We are tired of a driver who takes off from the station and decides to drop passengers at points they did not say they are going to. If you took passengers from Accra to Tamale you must take them to Tamale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original here: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The spokesperson of the Rawlingses and Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Kofi Adams has taken a swipe at Vice President John Dramani Mahama\u2019s recent allegory that the driver of the symbolic Yutong Bus of the NDC should be given coffee in order to complete the journey he has embarked on. The Vice President made the remarks in reaction to comments made by NDC MP for Lower Manya Krobo, Hon Michael Teye Nyaunu who lampooned the Mills-Mahama led government likening the administration to a brand new Yutong bus full of sleeping and wide-awake passengers who lack the courage to reprimand the reckless driver at the steering wheel for his bad motoring skills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Ghana Has No Time To Give Coffee To Sleepy Drivers&quot; - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/18\/ghana-has-no-time-to-give-coffee-to-sleepy-drivers\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"&quot;Ghana Has No Time To Give Coffee To Sleepy Drivers&quot; - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The spokesperson of the Rawlingses and Deputy General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Kofi Adams has taken a swipe at Vice President John Dramani Mahama\u2019s recent allegory that the driver of the symbolic Yutong Bus of the NDC should be given coffee in order to complete the journey he has embarked on. 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