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�If He Won�t Praise The President For What He Is Doing For Okyeman, He Should Stop Spoiling His Name The utterances of the Okyehene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II in recent times about President John Mahama is unbecoming of a paramount chief who has failed to be truthful to himself though the truth is starring him in the face. On Sunday evening, the Okyehene made his latest disparaging remarks about President Mahama and tried desperately to dress him in borrowed robes. At the Odwira festival last month, in the full glare of the public, he again verbally attacked President Mahama. The Okyerhene has been going on about President Mahama�s inability to repair the broken infrastructure of Okyeman in particular and the Eastern Region as a whole. But his attacks fly in the face of common sense because President Mahama has been in office barely two years. Does the Okyerhene expect the President to build Rome in a day? The infrastructure the Okyehene has been screaming from the rooftops about has been broken for donkey years. Yet for the eight years that President Kufour and the NPP were in power, Ghanaians did not hear a whimper from him. For at least seven years that Nana Akufo-Addo was MP for Abuakwa, the Okyehene never saw the need to demand from him the repair of the collapsed infrastructure. During all the years the NPP was in power, bad roads have characterized the road network in Abuakwa, school children were schooling under trees and inhabitants were drinking water that was impure because galamseyers had polluted the River Birim, yet Amoatia Ofori Panin II did not see the need to heckle President Kufuor. For twelve years, Akufo-Addo was MP for Abuakwa. Every year, he received his share of the MPs Common Fund. For seven out of those twelve years, he was first the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice and later, Minister for Foreign Affairs. Yet, there is no project he can point to in Okyeman and say he cut the sod for it and commissioned it when it was completed. Akufo-Addo failed to provide his own people with potable water. He and President Kufuor looked on while school children learnt under trees or in classrooms made of either mud or bamboo that looked like hen coops. The only project Akufo-Addo can boast of is an uncompleted building in Kyebi which was meant to be a library in memory of his uncle, J.B. Danquah. Yet, Okyehene kept mute. He saw no evil, heard no evil, and spoke no evil. Yet, in spite of the fact that under the NDC government in general and under President Mahama in particular, a lot has been done for Okyeman, he has suddenly found his voice and finds it best to attack President Mahama. Who is he trying to please? Why is he being dishonest to himself and to his subjects?