A Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Samuel Awuku, says he still cannot come to terms with the fact that President John Evans Atta Mills, with a convoy of cars in tow, stepped out of his comfort zone (Castle) to visit some markets in Accra, just to buy five balls of kenkey...
...to ascertain the real prices of basic goods, especially that of a ball of kenkey, and also the level of hardship being experienced by Ghanaians in the country.
To perhaps touch base with the electorate, President Mills, on Tuesday, February 28th, paid a surprise visit to the Maamobi, Nima and Mallam Atta markets in Accra, and said that Government was committed to improving the welfare of Ghanaians and to also prove that the opposition propaganda machinery wrong. Eager to establish the veracity of recent media reports that the price of a ball of kenkey had shot up to GHc 1.00, he (Mills) later bought five balls of kenkey at GHc 2.50 (with one valued at GHc 0.50) from Madam Agartha Akpaloo, a kenkey seller.
The Communications Director of the NPP, Nana Akomea had earlier claimed based on a report by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that Ghanaians can no longer cope with the tough economic situation in the country to the extent that a ball of kenkey now cost GH�1 and the ordinary person was finding it difficult to buy a ball of the commonest staple, kenkey
Baffled by the whole saga, Sammy Awuku noted on Peace FM�s flagship Kokrokoo that if the president could ride in an air-condition car just to buy kenkey, he wonders the fleet of cars his entourage will use on a journey to Tamale if it is that he craves for �waagashi� or �tuo zaafi�.
�Waagashi�, is a meal mainly prepared by Muslims using grass-fed cow milk and Xylopia aethipica leaves as the curdling agent. Waagashi is fried and eaten with a spicy peanut powder and tastes like cheese in the mouth or used as an additive in various soups.
�Koku Anyidoho told Ghanaians that President Mills decided to buy the kenkey because he desired for it�If the President who does less tedious work can consume 5 balls of kenkey, then how many (balls of kenkey) would a person who stands in the hot sun doing a manual job like digging trenches eat?...This is a serious matter so please don�t downplay it�today, he is craving for kenkey but we don�t know about tomorrow. If tomorrow, he yearns for �waagashie or tuo zafii� in Tamale, then we should be worried about the number of cars he would be using to embark on that journey,� Sammy Awuku said rather cheekily.
While stressing that it was �unnecessary� for the president to have introduced a �kenkey holiday�, by inviting the whole media to watch him buy kenkey, the NPP deputy communications director pointed out that Ghanaians were suffering and expected the president to address the enormous economic problems confronting the nation instead of �eating 5 balls of kenkey�.
Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/Peacefmonline.com
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