Akua Djanie, popularly known as Akua Blakofe has stated that she is disheartened by the way affairs are being managed by top officials in the country.
Her statement follows a recent banter with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Tourist Development Company (GTDC), Kwadwo Antwi, after she sent letters to the Ministries of Health and Sanitation for a partnership towards a beach and market clean up with investors from the United States.
According to Blakofe, her request was not welcomed by both Sanitation and Health Ministry.
“I sent letters to the Ministries of Health and Sanitation as I wanted to collaborate on a beach and market clean up with my USA investors. Sanitation ddin’t reply. Health Ministry wrote that it’s not a health issue,” she revealed in a Facebook post.
The former GTDC Deputy CEO posted on her Facebook platform that the CEO called her out in an interview on Adom FM while referring to her as an ‘embarrassment’ to the institution and not knowing how to perform her roles effectively.
Obviously appalled by Kwadwo Antwi’s reaction, Akua Blakofe was of the view that, “Anyone who does not see the link between health, sanitation and tourism shouldn’t be heading either of those 3 sectors.”
Apparently, there seem to be bad blood between the two prior to Kwadwo Antwi’s interview on Adom FM as Blakofe had accused him of sidelining her in the line of her duties.
She disclosed that, he chose to work with a three-man team rather than her as his deputy.
“I don’t do anything all day. My CEO doesn’t want me in the team so he has created a three-man team he works with. Meanwhile, I don’t see what GTDC is doing. The CEO travels every month for two weeks straight. In April, he was gone for three weeks,” she bemoaned in an interview with citinewsroom.com.
Blakofe earned the spot of a Deputy CEO via President Nana Akufo-Addo's appointment in February last year after she massively campaigned for him in the 2016 general elections.
The Motivational Africanist quit her role when she realized her skills were being underutilized at GTDC, the investment and commercial wing of the Tourism Ministry.
The outspoken former TV host, however, stated she feels her life is in danger after receiving several calls threatening her to return the car and other valuables given to her by GTDC.
In another post cited by www.ghanaweb.com, she averred, “In fact with all the wahala, I no longer feel safe. I feel victimized and threatened. If anything happens to me, you all know what caused it. #TheTruth.”
Blakofe's tenure as Deputy GTDC CEO officially ends on May 31, 2018.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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some of u guys are misjudging the lady, will any of us be happy if we are sidelined, the lady is saying she is not been used and cant be sitting all day long at the office without doing anything productive so the only option is to quit.
WHO GAVE THIS AIGBE CLOWN THE POSITION IN THE FIRST PLACE? THIS INWARD LOKING PEOPLE! A BUNCH OF TRAITORS
I live in Europe and I do not even vote in my mother Ghana but by the look of things, akuffo addows government clearly tells most ghanaians at home and abroad that Ghana is indeed in the wrong hands now really, please lets face it !.
Why cant people live good lives without politics? For me, I don't like playing any role in politics. I can be a sympathizer of a political party but stay out of their activities.
BLACKOFE IS A SELF CENTERED AND SELFISH AND ARROGANT PERSON WHO IS TROWING PROPER GOVERNANCE ISSUES TO THE DOGS. NPP FOLLOWS PROCEDURE AND DUE PROCESS. THINGS ARE NOT DONE IN THE NPP LIKE IT IS DONE IN THE NDC. SHE WAS OUT THERE TO MAKE SOME QUICK MONEY USING HER JUNKIE US ADDICTS AS INVESTORS. HER TRICK DIDNT WORK AND SHE WAS ALL OVER THE PLACE SHOUTING THE WRONG GUYS ARE IN POWER ? HOW CAN YOU WRITE A LETTER ON YOUR OWN ACCORD TO GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES WITHOUT APPROVAL FROM YOUR BOSS AND WITHOUT CC OR COPYING HIM THE LETTERS ? THIS IS NOT DONE ANYWHERE EXCEPT NDC UNDER PRESIDENT MAHAMA. PRESIDENTS RAWLINGS AND MILLS WILL NOT ALLOW THIS.
The big problem is that appointing people as reward for political sympathy does not work anywhere. Not in NDC, not in NPP. What are the qualifications of Blakofe and her boss???
ONE BIG QUESTION: Did she secure her boss' approval before sending those letters to the ministries or she was just doing her own thing? Running her own projects alone in order to her own 'tips'! No institution operates that way. Whats her career background anyway, and what merited her that top position?
If anyone should quit his or her job, that person is under obligation to return all organizational or institutional properties to his or her employer. "The Motivational Africanist quit her role when she realized her skills were being underutilized at GTDC, the investment and commercial wing of the Tourism Ministry" If the above statement is right, then this lady should even be reprimanded for holding to anything of the organization. This pure ***barred word***. Her lawyer/s should advise her. CHICKEN BRAIN
Blackofe is going about this the wrong way. There’s no organisation under the sun that hasn’t got issues but there are appropriate measures in resolving problems. From all indications, I think she is very temperamental and working with her will be a tough call. If u are good at your job and u lack the skills of conflict resolutions, team building, confidentiality, thus knowing the kind of information you put out cos not all info are good for public consumption. Some are very sensitive and are to be devulge on a need to know basis. Anyone who works in corporate organisation knows this too well. U can resign if you’re not happy at the place, but the continuous revealing of all these informations which should have gone to the appropriate quarters to begin with, but u chose to put it out there for all to read makes u part of the problem we have in the country of which u are complaining about. U can’t always have your way when working with people and u have to learn to deal with that or no serious company will work with u after this outburst of yours. U completely ignored the chain of command and instead, throw shades and bombs out while your tenure at the office hasn’t expired yet.
You are a snake!