His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama, had a torrid experience yesterday at the Manhyia Palace when he was met with tumultuous chant of ‘change’ from some NPP supporters.
The president and his entourage were there to commiserate with the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II during the one week celebration of the Queen mother of the Ashanti stool Asantehemaa Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa, Ampem II.
The event which was supposed to be solemn one, turned out to be raucous when some of the mourners deliberately shouted and gestured ‘change’ towards the president as he arrived at the funeral grounds.
The security details of the President had difficulties paving way for him. The boisterous act in the Ashanti Region makes it the second time within this year that President Mahama has been hooted at.
During the funeral ceremony of the late Bantamahene, Baffour Asare Owusu Amankwatiah V in March, 2016, some members of the NPP reportedly hooted at the President John Dramani Mahama and his entourage at the funeral grounds.
The mourners - clad in black, carried the flag of the NPP - started hooting at the President after the arrival of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo at the funeral grounds.
The mourners claimed President Mahama had declared himself a persona non-grata at the funeral grounds as according to them, the President had previously spoken ill of the people of Kumasi.
“What are you doing, you claim we are ungrateful beings who would never appreciate whatever you do for us, even if you tar our roads with gold, we would never appreciate your efforts, so what are you doing here….,” some of the angry mourners were reported to have said.
However yesterday’s incident nearly caused chaos as the president's security and sympathizers of the ruling party also attempted to reply their opponents in equal measure.
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Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/ email: [email protected]
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What will NPP gain from this ? JM TOASO
He should stop stealing the country's money and people will stop hooting at him. 1dollar is to 4GHS cedis, is so sad that NDC government inherited 1 dollar to 1 GHS cedis.
I'll be the first person to say that hooting at a sitting president is bad and unpardonable.So is hooting at anybody else with whom you disagree.It is uncivilised behaviour. However all those Neanderthals pouring their scorn on,and heaping insults on Ashantis are the scum of the earth .What shows that all those people are Ashantis?When Mahama went to Kokompe and he was hooted at why didn't these low-lives say that Gas hooted at Mahama?After all Kokompe is also a part of Accra.It is nauseating to see that some groups are openly tribalistic and yet nobody gives a hoot .Ewes are most tribalistic group in Ghana yet nobody ever says anything about them. Friends, if an Ewe is building a house the chances are that the foreman , carpenters,masons and even labourers would all be Ewes. These same people will boldly approach a Ga for a job and the chances are that they would get it.My point is that we all need to live together as Ghanaians and not as tribal groupings so those cows with ant brains on this platform gleefully insulting Ashantis should stop the n0ns3ns3.
Just learn from Joy, I read a similar story on myjoyonline and everything about it is superb. Nothing to cause alarm. What kind of reporting is this.
You call an honorable man created in the image of God a dwarf. May God forgive you else "w'ate wo nkwa nna so". Hmmmm dont ***barred word*** yourself out of politics and insult God for whatever a man soweth so shall he reap.
That was the sign of CHANGE
HOOTING THE PRESIDENT DOES MAKE YOUR FLAG BEARER THE PRESIDENT. CIVILIZED PEOPLE DO NOT THIS. HOOTING THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT WIN ELECTIONS. HOOTING THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT MEAN YOUR FLAG BEARER HAS WON ELECTIONS. YOU HOOT THE PRESIDENT IN KUMASI DO NOT FORGET THAT YOUR FLAG BEARER WILL ALSO BE HOOTED BY NDC SUPPORTERS. THIS IS GUTTER POLITICS. SUPPORTERS OF NPP ARE DARK AGE PEOPLE. NO WONDER THEIR KUMASI CHAIRMAN MISBEHAVES WHY NOT HIS SUPPORTERS. ***barred word*** PEOPLE.
UNCIVILIZED,***barred word***,INSANE PEOPLE LIVING A ***barred word*** LIFE. PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO RESPECT FOR AUTHORITY. THERE ARE DISCERNING PEOPLE IN ASHANTI WHO WILL VOTE FOR JDM IN APPRECIATION OF WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR THE REGION.#DISCERNING ASHANTIS FOR JDM
THIS PEOPLE ARE WORSHIPING KWAKU DUAH LIKE GOD,BECAUSE THEY WERE BORN WITHOUT FATHER.
Who care about their tribalist boldness you are talking about. Do they do the same to Kuffour upon all the stealing and corruptions in Kuffour administration did you these Asante devils insulted him?Is Kuffouur who said corruption state with Adams