{"id":440568,"date":"2017-11-24T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T08:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/11\/24\/stop-creating-personality-cult-for-akufo-addo-ablakwa-to-govt\/"},"modified":"2017-11-24T08:15:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T08:15:59","slug":"stop-creating-personality-cult-for-akufo-addo-ablakwa-to-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/11\/24\/stop-creating-personality-cult-for-akufo-addo-ablakwa-to-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop creating personality cult for Akufo Addo \u2013 Ablakwa to Gov\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Akufo-Addo-Ablakwa-475x267.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a former deputy Minister of Education, is cautioning the government to as a matter of urgency to abort the personality cult it sought to create in the 2018 budget.<\/p>\n<p>On page 143, the Minister for Finance introduced a program called the Akufo-Addo program for Economic transformation.<\/p>\n<p>On page 184, is also the introduction of a new intervention called His Excellency Nana Addicted Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u2019s plans for agricultural roads.<\/p>\n<p>Such act, he noted, happens only under authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, and that must be stopped immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The North Tongu lawmaker made this observation when he took his turn to debate the 2018 budget and economic policy statement on the floor of Parliament, Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Hon. Okudzeto Ablakwa noted that this tendency was not witnessed under Presidents, Rawlings, Attah Kufour, Mills, and Mahama for which reason it must not be entertained.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cAkufo Addo Programme for Economic Transformation, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo\u2019s Plan for Agriculture Roads, Please! Mr Speaker, this is what\u00a0Nikita\u00a0Khrushchev defines as the personality cult. This personality cult that we\u2019re trying to create in the 2018 budget must be aborted immediately. This is a democracy, we want our projects to be nationally owned, let us all work together to make projects work. This business of trying so hard to name projects after the President when he\u2019s even yet to deliver.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He added <em>\u201cwhat happens in this country is when you deliver and the people appreciate it that you\u2019ve delivered, they\u2019ll name it after you. Like we named the yellow Mass Transit buses after President Kufour, because\u00a0he delivered, like the way the Community Day Schools are being called Mahama schools because he delivered. It was never put in the budget that Mahama Community Day schools. Let us stop the personality cult and get to work, fortunately the theme for this year\u2019s budget is\u00a0 putting Ghana back to work I think the executive has had enough of this game. Sloganeering, authoritarian and totalitarian tendencies will not take us anywhere.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=1136575713042949&version=v2.3\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranking Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a former deputy Minister of Education, is cautioning the government to as a matter of urgency to abort the personality cult it sought to create in the 2018 budget. 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