In what can best be described as a shocking twist, the Vice-President, H.E. Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, has cancelled his planned Public Lecture which was expected to be a response to the Lecture delivered last week by NPP Running Mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
In a supposed tweet from the Vice-President’s twitter handle, the cancellation was blamed on the light rains in Accra this morning. “Due to the Rains this morning we have decided to call off my Public Lecture. A new date will be communicated in the coming weeks”, the tweet said.
The Lecture, was advertised under the theme – “Ghana’s Economy – Separating Truth from Fiction”.
An announcement of the event, which was put out first on social media, indicates that Chairman of the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF) and former Presidential Advisor, Ato Ahwoi will be the Chairman for the Public Lecture which was also scheduled for the National Theatre, the same venue for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s Lecture last week.
The event which would have come off exactly a week after Dr. Bawumia’s Lecture titled – "The State of the Ghanaian Economy – a foundation of concrete or straw"; was advertised to kick off at 1pm.
The Vice-President, Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur on Sunday gave the strongest indication that he was arming himself to respond to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who on Thursday, chronicled a tall list of issues backed with empirical data to show that President John Mahama’s government had been the worst government for Ghana’s economy.
Speaking at an NDC rally in Ashaiman, the Vice-President stated “at the appropriate time, we shall respond in full measure to all the lies that have been told; at the appropriate time, we shall correct him and teach him the things that he doesn’t know but thinks he knows.”
Reporters who visited the venue of the Lecture saw an empty hall with virtually no officials present aside a few persons clad in NDC paraphernalia.
The Lecture was widely advertised on pro-government and NDC social media accounts and which was confirmed on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo programme by Communications Specialist at the Presidency, Sam George on Wednesday, who insisted that the Vice President was not just going to respond to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia but to set the records straight on the performance of the economy after he was queried by NPP MP for Bantama, Kwabena Kokofu.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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He who fights and ran away, lives to fight another day, so get back on the war Veep Amissah, otherwise you are handing the opposition weapons to throw at you. I know Prof Kwesi Botwey agrees with the Dr. Bawumiah's diagnosis and prescriptions. A foundation of straw paa nie.
Amissah Arthur takes buying kenkey in Central Region very important than giving lecture on the Economy of Ghana.Oh Ghana, y3y3 mborbor. JM ,TWADO.I AM FOR CHANGE
U guys have said it all this reckless party has nothing good 4 Ghanaians.It abt time they pack their baggage n leave us in peace. Change is coming. Blame it on the rain.. Low blow.. Hahahahhhahaja
Folks, one thing we are making a mistake is,how can we as a country have life to move on when we are under something that has no life? Everything that can't breath is dead and how can we expect life in an umbrella hence anytime ndc is in power the country becomes dead and nothing work's good. They talk of , the symbol of the CPP was a cock and that's a living thing so the country was alive.The Democrats and Republicans use a Lamb and an Elephant so America is living, the NPP used the Elephant a living thing and Ghana became a lower middle income country, dead umbrella took over and the Vice President is running away from his field as an economist. THE UMBRELLA IS DEAD and has no Ghost. VOTE FOR THE ELEPHANT which can eat and drink for Ghana to come back to life.
hahahahahahahahahahahaha Mr Amissah who a man who cannot speak English is going to do what? Face Mr Bawumia no size. He should rather face his wife the villager
Consider cancelling December polls at places it will rain that day.
Runaway soldier,if you can't beat him just joined him
You will rather expose your mismanagement of the economy Even IMANI agree with 60%_70%of Dr Bawumias submission Only 30% they claim are figures wrongly used The whole Man is a failure just like ndc I will leave ndc if I was a member coz of him
The boys boys in the NDC are pushing Amissah Arthur into a ditch.
OH, Is that all he could say? Blame it on the RAIN? Is it Milli Vanilli who has a song by that title? Oh, this guy paaaa, Is he serious? We want you guys out so don't waste our time. An Economics degree from Nigeria?! Ebei, ..........and the outmoded demand side economics?! That's why way back in Legon he was considered one of the ***barred word*** economics lecturers. .............yet this guy through politics managed to smuggle himself to positions like deputy Economics and Finance Minister under PNDC, and governor of Bank of Ghana under NDC 1, and now vice president under NDC 3. This guy is "chopping" Ghana waa d3n ky3 for nothing. Now the NDC itself has realized the guy is ***barred word*** and wanted to get rid of him. They push him to respond to Bawumia and without thinking he shoots from the hip. Insiders say the NDC top goons questioned him, "So are you an economist"? Is Amiossah Arthur an economist?