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Mr. Kofi Asamoah, Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) wants the National Security Advisor whose remarks over the weekend has elicited sharp riposte to leave the country if he is exasperated as a Ghanaian. Brigadier General Nunoo-Mensah (rtd) is making the headlines this week for all the wrong reasons, after he lashed out at Ghanaian workers to put an end to their needless strikes which he considered to be a mark of indiscipline. He challenged the striking workers to exit the country if they think "the kitchen is too hot" for them. �Every Tom, Dick and Harry gets up and is calling for a strike. If you don�t want the job Ghana is not a police state, take your passport and get out of this country. If you can�t sacrifice like what some of us have don�t then get out. If the kitchen is too hot for you, get out�. Despite condemnations from the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) and labour union and calls on to apologise, the former army commander, in an interview with BBC�s Focus on Africa categorically stated that he �owes no one an apology� for his utterances. Speaking on Asempa FM, Mr. Kofi Asamoah opined that �Gen. Nunoo Mensah did not speak well. He is on retirement as a soldier so probably he thinks he was talking to soldiers. Ghana does not belong to him. If he thinks he is frustrated then he should rather leave the country, Ghana belongs to us and we have nowhere to go�. �He is an elderly and supposed to rather help calm aggrieved workers. Unfortunately he is inflaming passions. If he says he will not apologise, fine�if as an elder and a chief advisor his mind serves him right to talk to the nation is such a manner�then it�s up to him,� he added.