{"id":1212567,"date":"2022-09-28T12:51:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T12:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/you-cant-lead-ghana-with-your-coconut-heads-kt-hammond-to-those-who-booed-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:51:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T12:51:43","slug":"you-cant-lead-ghana-with-your-coconut-heads-kt-hammond-to-those-who-booed-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/you-cant-lead-ghana-with-your-coconut-heads-kt-hammond-to-those-who-booed-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t lead Ghana with your coconut heads &#8211; KT Hammond to those who booed Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/KT-Hammond.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Adansi-Asokwa MP Kobina Tahir Hammond says those who booed President Akufo-Addo at the Global Citizen Festival in Accra cannot even lead the country if given the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the jeers from the audience were a sign of disrespect which should not have happened.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with <strong>JoyNews<\/strong>, the NPP MP explained that governance is a complex business, and, therefore, those who are unhappy with the current state of affairs must exercise some restraint.<\/p>\n<p>He took a swipe at those who booed the President off the stage and questioned their ability to lead the country if given the nod.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s exercise restraint a little. Akufo-Addo is the executive President overseeing all the affairs of the country. When he arrived on the stage, he didn\u2019t say anything untoward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides, it wasn\u2019t even a political platform. He was only expressing his satisfaction with the event\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The MP added \u201cWe will continue to admonish you the young men and women to be patient. When there\u2019s an issue to be addressed, society always consults the elderly. Not you the young ones, whose heads are like coconuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least you should have waited for him to even mount a political platform before hooting, and not such an event. Let\u2019s not disrespect the elderly because of politics\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"b9oXI0YXp4M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adansi Asokwa MP KT Hammond reacts to booing of Akufo-Addo\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b9oXI0YXp4M?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not possible for the governance of the country to be left to only you, the youth. You won\u2019t be able to do it in the first place, and you won\u2019t even understand. You\u2019ve kept your beards unkempt in town, but there\u2019s nothing in your head\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>KT Hammond\u2019s comments were in reaction to how a section of the audience at this year\u2019s Global Citizens Festival hooted at the President when he mounted the podium to speak.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of videos that have gone viral on social media, the aggrieved audience was seen and heard, urging the President to stop speaking and leave the stage.<\/p>\n<p>This development subsequently sparked widespread debates on social media about the President\u2019s popularity and how he is losing his appeal as head of state.<\/p>\n<p>But reacting to this, the Deputy Director of Communications of the New Patriotic Party, Mr Owusu Bempah, has accused the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) of orchestrating the hooting.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Monday, he stated that the NDC deliberately planted its supporters in the crowd to embarrass the President for political points.<\/p>\n<p>His comments have however been rubbished by some social commentators, who say the jeering was a genuine reflection of the dissatisfaction of Ghanaians about the state of affairs in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the National Democratic Congress has also categorically denied its involvement with the said incident.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>The party said the incident reflects the \u201cexcruciating and frustrating times Ghanaians presently find themselves\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a press release signed by the Communications Officer of the party, Sammy Gyamfi, the NDC said it had no hand in the \u201cembarrassment \u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adansi-Asokwa MP Kobina Tahir Hammond says those who booed President Akufo-Addo at the Global Citizen Festival in Accra cannot even lead the country if given the opportunity. According to him, the jeers from the audience were a sign of disrespect which should not have happened. Speaking in an interview with JoyNews, the NPP MP explained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}