National Communications Officer for the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has described President Akufo-Addo as a liar for employing only his family and friends in his government after promising Ghanaians not to toe that line.
According to him, the reason why the NDC is talking about nepotism in the Akufo-Addo government has to do with the fact that it enhances bribery and corruption in any government.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Sammy Gyamfi said that inasmuch as there is no law on nepotism in some countries, it is unethical to appoint family and friends in public offices as it undermines the authority given to the President by the citizens.
“President Akufo-Addo on Saturday 17th of January 2016 in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region at the NPP's Delegates Conference said ‘I will not operate a family and friend government’; and again, he stood somewhere to say that his wife will not give out contracts as someone’s wife is doing. He said this to disgrace some people in this country because he wanted to be President,” he recalled.
He was of the view that “all the things President Akufo-Addo said about former President John Mahama and his wife were lies”; thus, apart from one distant family member, Joyce Bawa Mogtari who was made the Deputy Minister of Transport, former President Mahama did not employ any family member in his government.
He reiterated that President Akufo-Addo and his NPP members continued to brandish the Mahama government as a family and friends even though no member of his [Mahama] family was given any post in his government.
“But you, after tarnishing Mahama’s name, you promised that when you are voted into power, you will not do the same. Nana Addo is the first President in the history of Ghana that promised that when he was voted into powerr . . .” he asserted.
He maintained that the number of family and friends operating in the Akufo-Addo government is unprecedented in the history of the world; hence, the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has every right to talk about it for Ghanaians to know that he [Nana Addo] is not a honest person.
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Communicators in political parties duty is education and disseminate the programme and policies of the Government to the masses .In Communicators resort in insults especially elderly in Ghana. Cast your mind during Ex-Mahama team young guys such as Felix Ofosu Kwakye, Ablakwa agyinim boateng ,Solomon Nkansah and so on resorted to insults and that caused them big failure. Sammy, you are on path for failure in life if not change your style
Oh Sammy why dont u relax and sleep? Nana has to appoint more F & Fs for security reasons.
Investigations sighted by MyNewsGH.com has named three old men in the Akufo-Addo government for strategically placing their children and in-laws in key positions at the expense of equally qualified members of the larger tax-paying community. The said investigations were made public by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Communications Officer Sammy Gyamfi. As promised, MyNewsGh.com is serializing the list of family and friends backed by evidence. First, is Speaker of Parliament Prof Aaron Mike Oquaye who after allegedly pushing his son to India as High Commissioner has also allegedly lobbied for his daughter, Maria Edith Ocquaye to be appointed Head of Corporate Affairs at the National Petroleum Authority (NPA). Also, Akosua Manu, daughter in law of Peter Mac Manu, Board Chair of the GPHA and Former Chairman of the NPP has also been appointed as Deputy CEO of the National Youth Authority in what NDC claims is pure family and friends government. Mac Manu’s inlaw held the position of Deputy Communications Director at the Office of the First Lady from 2017 until her appointment at NYA, MyNewsGH.com learnt. The NDC also accused Senior Minister Osafo Maafo’s whose two boys are occupying ‘strategic’ positions newly created for their sake. Kofi Bosompem Osafo-Maafo is Deputy Director-General in-charge of Investment & Development at the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) and Kwadwo Gyamfi Osafo Maafo is Deputy Director, in-charge of Cyber Security at the National Communications Authority (NCA), all in 2017.
NPP should STOP engaging these guys who do not even know what they will do if they win power. NDC has nothing to offer Ghana. So they want us to discuss these needless topics. What is NDC's major IDEA? NONE!
Would you have said otherwise? It would have been the latest miracle to take place.
Sammy Gyemfi is the most honest person ever
When will this ***barred word*** learn how to talk at all
No problem. You are honest eh.