Former Finance Minister, Kwesi Botchway, has expressed worry over what seems to be a growing intolerance against dissent in the country.
The NDC stalwart says his family and well-wishers have discouraged him from airing his views on any negativity that ensues in government under the Akufo-Addo administration.
Mr Botchway was a keynote speaker at a public organised by the One Ghana Movement at the University of Ghana.
While speaking on the state of the economy, the former Finance Minister revealed that persons urged him to be guarded in his utterances or risk getting attacked.
He recounted President Akufo-Addo’s admonition during his 2017 speech for Ghanaians to be “citizens not spectators” and juxtaposed it against the situation on the ground.
“These people are vindictive, and they’ll come after you if you criticise them, they said. I was quite dismayed and wondered if this was truly reflective of the public sentiment in our time.
“Or whether these friends had perhaps missed His Excellency the President’s exaltation to us in his inaugural address in 2017 to be citizens, not spectators, which exaltation I was sure he meant in earnest,” he said on Monday.
GhanaFeed.com
