Deputy minister of communications, Hon. Felix Ofosu Kwakye has described disputations over President Mahama’s last round of activities as “naked politicking”.
The outgoing Minister, who spoke to pressmen yesterday in Accra, said the basis for such concerns lacked fair, sound and objective analysis.
He opined that the contretemps over government’s business were the actions of some people who have chosen to View the president’s activities with political lenses.
According to Mr. Ofosu Kwakye, the same attitudes were portrayed by opposition forces against the president’s appointment of Supreme Court Justices as well the EC boss sometime back.
“So – what you see is a partisan trend, not an objective, fair, candid analysis of the situation”, he said.
Adding, “It appears to me that there’re some people who simply do not respect the decisions and mandate of president Mahama, and that to me is at the heart of this kind of politicking”.
Presidents must function until end of tenure
The minister expressed that the president was being unnecessarily challenged over basic routine functions that other presidents before him in the past, performed.
“It cannot be said that some presidents before or after him (John Mahama) can exercise their mandates up until the end of their tenure, but president Mahama must be denied same. It is wrong and disrespectful of Ghana’s constitution and cannot be accepted in the normal course of running this nation”, he asserted.
The Minister also remarked that the claims being made were equally influenced by ignorance on the parts of some party fanatics who think that once their party wins an election, the functions of the outgoing government must immediately cease.
Mahama still president
He stressed that Mr. John Mahama remained president of the republic of Ghana and as such was allowed by the constitution to carry on with government business until January 7 when he shall hand over to Nana Akuffo-Addo.
Mr. Ofosu Kwakye maintained that the processes leading to the review of the national service allowance and wages of public sector workers, begun months before the elections and therefore could not be described as a “last-minute” gambit.
Appointments and increment won’t cripple new gov’t
“In any case, how does the appointment of an NCCE boss or the review of allowances and wages inhibit or stop a new government from functioning?” he averred.
He said the NDC government in like manner inherited certain appointments and contracts from former president John Kuffuor, and lived with it for 8 years, thus was not a strange thing.
The minister argued that if NPP claimed they would restore the allowances of trainee teachers and nurses running into hundreds of millions of cedis, they must not be consternated by the slight increment of the recent salaries and allowances.
Mr Kwakye who said the cost implication of the increment in the National Service allowances was Ghc14 million per year, according to him, was not grave to hamper the functioning of the incoming government.
Source: Clifford Yaw Frimpong/Ghanaweb
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So this boy has now emerged from his rat hole. This arrogant talk is what contributed to sending Mahama home. Continue with your arrogance, Rawlings will soon come after you.
felix after insulting the president-elect with all those unprintable words you are now saying that some people are now disrespecting the out-going president. you wait until after the inauguration of our president.
So this guy has come out from {kusie bonumu} rat hole. I saw him in tears when the President was delivering his capitulating speech to the Nation. Nobody is against the increment as well as the appointment hence was these salaries captured or factored in the 2017 budget? These things should have been left with the incoming government. That is the crux of the issue
So this incompetent ***barred word*** is still talking.Felix Ofosu Kwakye can still not keep his ***barred word*** smelling mouth and sharp teeth shut.
Felix dnt worry after 7th Jan u will feel the heat. Just take it kuul.
The NDC simply doesn't respect the decision of the majority of voters!
I WANTED TO POST SOMETHING NASTY BUT THOUGHT ABOUT IT AND DECIDED THAT CHARLEY THIS BOYS IS NOT WORTH IT. THIS BOY IS MORE ANOYING THAN SCHOOL FEES!
OK.....I know now that when I come here I should not expect impartiality and fairness. I should know that Peacefm is an NPP news channel!
PeaceFM is becoming very bias. Is the station an official channel for NPP? Where is the story on Wontumi talking about Mahama's misplaced priority on infrastructural development?. Because most people's comments were against Wontumi's assertion about Mahama's misplaced focus on infrastructural development, the story has been taken off Peacefm's website. One of the core principle of journalism is 'impartiality and fairness', but it seems Peacefm has its own journalistic principle which is not universal. Discerning readers are watching!
This Felix guy is one of the babies with sharp teeth Rawlings was referring to. You are one of the guys who caused Mahama to loose the election. I wish your party will never come to power again....