Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Free Zone Board (GFZB), Kojo Twum Boafo, who was an eye-witness to the unfortunate spectacle last Saturday on JoyFM�s news analysis programme, Newsfile, says there is more to it than meets the eye regarding the expletive spewed forth by Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea on Deputy Tourism Minister, James Agyenim-Boateng.
The GFZB CEO claims Nana Akomea�s outburst was triggered by a text message he received whiles Mr Agyenim-Boateng was speaking to the issue under discussion, and posits that his untoward reaction shows the depth of desperation in the Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo�s camp.
There was a drama over the weekend in the studios of an Accra based commercial television station, MultiTV, where the intellectual discourse of Newsfile was beamed live, degenerated into the spewing forth of obscenities between Nana Akomea and James Agyenim Boateng.
The honourable MP felt the deputy minister had denigrated him by depicting him as an �unintelligent� person and in response also insulted the Minister as a �stupid fool�.
But speaking to Suhini Alhassan in an interview on Radio Gold, Kojo Twum Boafo, who was also a panelist on the show, was emphatic that the Deputy Minister never used the word �unintelligent�.
According to him, Nana Akomea was reading a text message he received on his phone and was not fully attentive to what Agyenim-Boateng was saying.
To him, if Nana Akomea had not been too engrossed with the reading of his text message, he would have heard clearly and understood what the Deputy Tourism Minister said, and perhaps might not use those foul words.
��Nana Akomea was reading some text messages on his phone�I don�t think he (Nana Akomea) heard what he (James) is supposed to have said clearly. If he had heard it, he would never have gone on that terrain�at a point in time, if there were no one between them, he would have punched him�I am surprised because Nana Akomea is supposed to be one of the gentlemen among our politicians and I cannot comprehend why he behaved in that way. These are symptoms of the desperation of the Nana Akufo Addo�s campaign and the things they are prepared to do simply to win power��
�I am convinced beyond measure that that is what happened and he should been fair to his own instincts because James never called him unintelligent. Nana Akomea himself realised that he had not behaved well because we had a civil conversation afterwards and everybody went his way�,� Kojo Twum Boafo narrated.
Source: Rebecca Quaye/Peacefmonline.com
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