President Akuffo-Addo has angrily reacted to Akyem Sakawa Boys comment made by the NDC and its leadership.
According to the president, no public figure has come out to call Mahama and his NDC to order after their ethnic branding of Akyem people.
“Sometimes one would hope that when things come out, people will comment on them. The comment made by my opponent; Akyem Sakawa people, I have not heard any public figure in this country or anybody comment on it.”
“If I was to get up to make a comment about northerners or Gonjas, you can imagine the uproar that will be in the country,” the President lamented.
He also noted that the government had become a punching bag on matters of free speech.
“If you criticize the government, no matter what you say, it is legitimate. If the government is to respond, that is somehow illegitimate.”
President Akufo-Addo thus stressed the need for a zero-tolerance approach to comments deemed unsavoury.
“If the President opens his mouth and says something that is unacceptable, he should be reprimanded. In the same way, opposition politicians, if they conduct themselves by their utterances in an unacceptable manner, they should be brought to book.”
He said this at a meeting with the leadership of the Catholic Bishop Conference at the Jubilee House on Friday, President Nana Akufo-Addo
Source: GhanaFeed.com
