Social commentator, Sydney Casley Hayford, has said that it was insulting for Gender and Social Protection Minister Nominee, Otiko Djaba to describe former President Mahama as evil and wicked.
Otiko Djaba on Tuesday refused to apologize for her comments against the President when she was queried by some Minority members serving on Parliament’s Appointment Committee.
She defended her comments, saying she spoke out of conviction and would therefore neither apologize nor withdraw her comments. “The President is my brother and I spoke from my convictions.
I made the statements that I made as a wake up call for him. We are building the nation.He was running for reelection and I felt that the people who should tell him as it is were not telling him as it was.They decided that because he was my brother , they did not want me to speak and when I talked about him being an embarrassment, I spoke in relation to SADA.
SADA is very dear to my heart.My mother is a Northerner, the incidence of poverty is highest in the three Northern Regions and for a President who comes from the Northern Region, who promised to alleviate poverty, what happened to the Guinea fowls?
It was an embarrassment to me and to the North. The Chiefs of the North actually made that statement and so I don’t owe him or you any apology. We are developing and building a nation,” Otiko said. But sharing his thoughts on the development that transpired in Parliament for which reason the minority is refusing to approve her nomination, Mr. Casley Hayford said Otiko Djaba’s comments could be equated to insults.
“They were insulting comments,” he told host of Citi FM’s Big Issue, Umaru Sanda Amadu. “In the build up to the campaign, everybody says all sorts of things against each other . We seem to have allowed that on our platform …and the citizens seem to appreciate, and we laugh about it and for us it becomes fun,” Casley Hayford added.
Casley Hayford intimated that, Otiko should have apologized for being “sarcastic and cheeky” after being queried by members of the Committee, instead of taking a rather stiff stance.
Meanwhile, Parliament is expected to sit and vote on Otiko Djaba’s approval on Tuesday, 7th February, 2017, since the House could not agree on her nomination by consensus.
Source: Citifmonline.com
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Why won't she call mahama evil when the man(mahama) connive with the the rest of the family including her own mum to throw her things out of the house only because she choose akuffo addo over him(mahama) The woman had to pick a car from Accra to the north to pack her things.Asey leave the woman alone.Mahama is too tribalistic,he thinks all northerner must follow him so if you choose another candidate then you are his enemy.He was too tribal and his own people didn't like that except for few Ndc guys.
i disagree with casley. When politicians do things that cause the masses to suffer to the extent ending the lives of many how do you expect them to react? Politely? i am tires of this non.senze of being civil when actions of people in goverment are causing people to die. If you are pricking me with a nail must i not react aggreasively? Government is not an experimental ground to play with peoples lives and when therebis vio
Even Oti Bless was passed... Aaaaa. Okudjato, Ofosu Karkye, Momoni Boamah etc, who insulted more than them and okudjato has the efontry to question her.if the kitchen is too hot.......
The then president Mahama referred to Nana-Addo as a rapper after his ono-on-one interview with Sefa Kayi. He called him Opana and others... A whole president. If the first gentleman as of the time could be sarcastic, what should the last gentleman of the nation say or do? These NDC guys played God without and said Nana-Addo can NEVER be president with insulting campaign videos. Why, was and is Mahama a some demi-god? This Sad SADA Saga, what words should be used to describe it. Anyway, who defines what an insult is? Social Commentators? If we disagreed with Otiko, you think we would have voted for the NPP? Hayford, you are Ghanaian referee....
Jonathan lagos,so after all your nons*nsical comments,insult and show of power you couldn't help John mahama to retain power and you are here to comment in opposition hahahahahaha! You see how power doesn't belong to the ndc but the people?You see how frustrated you are? Your party is irrelevant now,you were able to win 2 regions in Ghana even in power so in opposition how many are you going to win? You won the Volta region and the UE,UW was split between the 2 parties, North almost the same hahahahaha you see how arrogance,disrespectful, insults and impunity can lower a man now where lies ndc power? It is time for the NPP government to retrieve all state properties stolen by the ndc and the same security personnel used to harass Ghanaians are being used to retrieve those properties. Lagos unfortunately your party ndc is irrelevant in Ghana now because you are thi*eves. NPP Onaapo.
AND MAY YOUR MOUTH BE CURSED FOR THE CHASTISEMENT OF THE H.A.R.L.O.T.... WHERE WERE YOU WHEN SHE FIRST MADE THOSE COMMENTS.... JUMPING FROM ONE MEDIA HOUSE TO THE OTHER,,,, CHEERING HER ON... AND WHAT HAS CHANGE NOW.???? OR SHE IS REFUSING TO PAY YOU BACK IN KIND AS PROMISED.... SINCE THAT IS HER STOCK IN TRADE... EVEN AT PARTY LEVEL..... NOW SHE IS A MINISTER,,, SO THE TONGA WILL ELUDE YOU AND WILL FAVOUR THE ONE WHO NOMINATED HER..... SO STOP PLAYING GOD AND THE RANTING..... BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT YOU SAT ON RADIO AND TV CAMPAIGNING FOR... SO YOU EITHER PUT UP,,,, OR S.H.U.T. UP,., AND SUPPORT THE ILLEGALITY....
I beg to differ on this sir!!! The insults that were rained on H.E Akufo Addo during his entire political career could kill the faint heated. He never retaliated and he has asked no one to apologize. The NDC's tin God John Mahama must grow some thick skin and be ready for what accompanies politics in Ghana. Nobody should be apologizing for what was said on a campaign platform. It was coming from both sides. Get over it! You lost miserably.
I support Otiko 100% for not apologizing even if she was wrong. Is that the right platform to score cheap political point. What happened to Oti Bless? Was he approved? What happened to the minority leader when he lied about his thesis? Did Otiko break any law? Please give us a break. If the minority doesn't want to approve her by consensus, the majority should put her to vote. If the minority wants to walk out, it is their option to take. They have stagnated this nation for 8 years now, we don't need to wait any time on this. I have heard Akandoh displaying his ignorance by saying he will go to court if Otiko is approved. What a sad story. Let's us give ourselves a little education and do more intellectual discourse than to suggest some of these things. Even JHS 2 student know that anyone who goes to court on this will loose.
Casie, this one I disagree with you. For a chief executive who could sit down for schools for children of disability to be closed down for want of state funds, I don't know how else Otiko could best have described him. How many of her inquisitors had not insulted President Kufuor who fared far better than their president? It is not equalisation. The NDC is not a political party; they just come together to create, loot and share. Let the majority approve the nomination
Empty head Hayford. Wicked and evil are opinion and not insult