Claims that Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur was preparing to respond to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia's 'state of Ghana's economy' at the National Theatre on Thursday September 15, 2016, has been refuted by leading government officials.
The revelation comes after an announcement was circulated on various social media platforms that the vice president cancelled his planned Public Lecture which was expected to be a response to an earlier lecture delivered by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, a running mate to Nana Akufo Addo on the economy.
In the said announcement which flooded various social media platforms, Chairman of the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF) and former Presidential Advisor, Ato Ahwoi was supposedly expected to chair the Public Lecture.
But the said report has been invalidated by government spokespersons.
James Agyenim-Boateng, a Special Aide to the Vice President, first indicted Peacefmonline for "falling for the NPP's propaganda".
"The Vice-President has no public lecture planned," he simply told the Editor.
Deputy Spokesperson for the NDC's 2016 Campaign Team, Felix Kwakye Ofosu followed suit with a WhatsApp message asserting that the Vice-President's twitter account was "cloned" by the NPP.
"...the story about the Veep and a lecture is FALSE. I see that Peacefmonline has fallen for the NPP's dirty propaganda. No such event was EVER planned. They cloned his Twitter account and put out that lie," he revealed.
Peacefmonline.com is reliably informed that a tweet from the Vice-President’s twitter handle attributing the cancellation of the public lecture to the light rains experienced in Accra Thursday morning, was a hoax.
“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 malicious tweet indicated.
On Sunday, Vice-President, Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur gave the strongest indication that he was arming himself to respond to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who 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.”
But deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Mr. Koku Anyidoho says the Vice President will not waste his time on someone who lacks credibility and has failed to provide the remaining 90 percent evidence over claims that the register was bloated with foreign names.
''That is not true. I ran my checks yesterday and the flyer is a hoax. The Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur will not respond to Bawumia. Bawumia has a lot of question mark(s) on his credibility, and so i don't think the Vice President will respond to someone who has a question mark on his credibility. Bawumia has a lot to do in terms of redeeming his image...Bawumia didn't hold a lecture, it was an event to churn out false figures.''
Source: Chris Joe Quaicoe/ email: [email protected]
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OH GOD HAVE MERCY ON MINE DEAR OLD GHANA BECAUSE IF WE HAVE SINNED AGAINST THEE FORGIVE US AS A NATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!;so we have a whole Vice President who have over the years just lied his way to the top and today Amissah -Arthur is being exposed BIG TIME !!!!!! because the man is just hiding behind the NDC again to full Ghanaians as an economist ; this is a man who over the years have claimed to have obtained a Masters degree in Economics has being a lecturer at our apex University ; the question is how did he get a job as a lecturer at Legon and was he interviewed to assess his competence in the subject matter and what did he teach his students ; this is a man who became a deputy Finance minister under the NDC government ; this is a man who became the Governor of the Bank Ghana per his false degree but then evetually ended up being the Vice President ; so the question is upon all these experience in public life as a lecturer to being a Vice President and an economist why cannot this Fante Donkey just come with a short paper rebutting all that Bawumia has highlighted with evidence and where the is the Nii Noi Thompson and Fifi Kwettey ;this Fante Amissah Arthur like some EWES and Ayigbe people lie and cheat to the top claiming to be this and that and an economist and have used the NDC party which condone misfits to lie their way to the top ; if this Amissah -Arthur was a confident man he should easily have come out boldly to tell Ghanaians how wrong Bawumia was ; afterall they said Bawumia was lying ; Amissah -Arthur is a fraudester and like many people in decision making positions they either paid for their degrees or are using forged certificates ; Amissah Arthur paid for his degree ; what baffles me is how was such a man employed at Legon University to lecture and how was the appointed the Governor of the Bank of Ghana -VERY STRANGE !!!!!!!!!!!!
TEE, if you don't have anything to say, just ***barred word***
Massa; this is very very sad indeed and I think every rational person shares your concerns for the NDC which is made up of ruffins ; goro boys ; thiffs and rogues and monkeys like ; Koku Anyddoho ; Omane Boama ; Felix Kwakye and other NDC members ; as for me I am not in the least surprised that the NDC eventually came up with some excuse to chicken out of this rebuttal lecture which was rightly or wrongly imposed on Amissah -Arthur to refute per a public lecture ; the truth of the matter is that Amissah -Arther has no pedigree in economics ; how can you obtain a mediocre degree from legon uninversity with no proper research facility and no proper lecture materials to a a doctrate degree obtained in the UK with so much reserach facility and well documented research skills ;to me there was no way Amissah -Arthur could mount a lecture podium and refute the chrages levelled against the NDC on the issues raised by Bawumia ; it was just brovado by the NDC and today they have fallen flat on their faces ; WHAT A DISGRACE !!!!!!!!afterall it was the very NDC party and their pipe pipers piping on roof tops led by Omane Boama and others who said what Bawumia was saying was not true ; if what the man was alluding to was not accurate and you have told us the people that it is not true ; then why are you running away from comming out to rebut all the evidence and the fact and figures ;the truth is that the NDC as party has never had somebody who understands the subject of economics at a higher level ; a person who can use the tools of economics to highlight and solve economic problems ; the least person they had was Fifi Kweetey but sadly the guy also turned out to be a no good specimen for the NDC in economics ethics; what the NDC does know is that economics as a subject is not a 'BUGA BUGA' propaganda tool and as was said by former President Clinton 'IT IS THE ECONOMY STOOOOOOPID'because if you get the economy right you nobody will even take anynotice when you get the economy wrong .
NDC should stop playing the tribal Card instead of issue-based argumentation to counter the Claims made by the good Dr Bawumia.
RUNNING AWAY.....NOBODY TAA NO DO. RUNNING AWAY!!! I can't think far....i don't swad...In fact, i don't think so FAAMINING!!!
BUT SAM GEORGE INDEED CONFIRMED ON PEACEFM KOKOKRO THAT, THE VICE PRESIDENT WAS GOING TO HAVE A LECTURE TO SET THE RECORDS STRAIGHT. SO WHERE FROM ALL THIS HOAX THING.
So the Govt is not ready to give the Ghanaians the accurate figures? Sovereignty lies with the ordinary Ghanaian
Bawumia,Bawumia day in day out. Lets in the unlikely event that the NPP win the election,the very person they are praising and awarding titles now will be disrespected as "NTANI" especially at cabinet meetings the same way the NPP current flag bearer(Nana Addo) was doing to late Alhaji Aliu Mahama. Thank God they(NPP) won't even get 40% in this year's election.
SOMETIMES THE NDC DISAPOINT SOME OF US BIG TIME. THEY MAKE PEOPLE MAKE MORKERY ON SOME OF US WHO HAVE SOFT HEART FOR THE PARTY. I THINK I HAVE TO TRY THE NPP WITH MY VOTE THIS TIME. I AM SO HURT BY THIS LAME RESPONCE FROM THE NDC SAYING THE VEEP HAS NO TIME FOR BAWUMIAH WHAT A CALAMITY. THAT MEANS AM NOT GOING TO TAKE ANYTHING SAID ON THE NDC PLATFORM . HOW CAN A WHOLE FORMER DEPUTY MINISTER FOR FINANCE, A GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF GHANA, WHEREBY MAWUMIA HAS NOT HELD THAT POST AND YOU ALLOW HIM TO SCORE YOU LIKE THAT AND YOU SAY YOU HAVE NO TIME? I HAVE BRAGED TO FRIENDS THAT WE SHALL SEE WHO IS WHO. NOW AM ASHAMED OF MY SELF I MUST CONFESS. ARE THE COMUNICATORS EVEN NOT EVEN ASHAMED TO TELL THIS NATION OF WHAT THEY ARE TELLING US. ITS AN INSULT I AM SO DOWN AND OUT.
IF NPP THINK THAT BAWUMIA LECTURES ALONE CAN WIN THEM THE ELECTIONS, THEN THEY SHOULD KEEP QUIET. WHY WAST THEIR TIME ON AIR PRAISING BAWUMIA AND SAYING UNNECESSARY THINGS. THE NPP FOR ME IS JUST NOT READY TO RULE GHANA. THEY KEEP DOING THINGS AS IF SMALL CHILDREN ARE PLAYING. BAWUMIA HAS GIVEN A LECTURE AND SO WHAT?.