Deputy Minister of Agriculture Kennedy Osei Nyarko says some comments made by Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto by has been misconstrued.
Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto is reported to have said that prices of food items on the market are cheaper despite the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus in the country.
“The hike in food prices, I think we all recognize that only four years ago, a bunch of plantains, you had to spend GHS40 but now with GHS3 to GHS6, you can get a bunch of plantains. It shows you clearly that we have come to reduce prices of food even in the major cities like Accra where there is substantial rushes in the markets. Most families who could not afford one meal a day can now afford three meals a day because food is so cheap and we will continue to ensure that planting for food and jobs will deliver even more food to areas of consumption to makes lives very easy for families in consuming areas,” the Minister noted.
But speaking on UTV's Critical Issues programme with host Afia Pokua popularly known as Vim Lady, Mr Osei Nyarko said it will be insensitive for the Minister to describe the prices as low when they are not.
"...he was taken out of context…he never said presently food prices are cheap; he wouldn’t have said that. He was giving a general comment comparing food prices under the current regime to previous administrations. He would have been an insensitive person to make that statement," he stated.
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The deputy minister is saying his boss was misconstrued. maybe the minister/deputy are twi men and we are ghanaians, so there is communication gap. Do we remember lady telling a journalist that she does not come from Ghana but she comes from Takoradi. Ghana has more of these upside down people in the system and the minister is one of them.He is an akan but not a ghanaian
Well, I don't blame the deputy; Ghana our lingua franca is English but since the minister chose to speak Greek it is only his deputy who understood and therefore we can't dispute the interpretation of his deputy!
Suddenly the Minister has developed ENGLISH problems!! Who has better grasp of English - the minister or his semi literate deputy???
Another sleeping beauty, please stop exposing your ignorance as a minister paid with public tax. These old cargos must leave the scene and train young guys to take over. Ghana politics is no longer lucrative for the old whether is NPP or NDC, PPP etc. We must be focused and exposed the inefficient who think the can always rely on tribal sentiments and sympathy to dupe Ghanaians. Every liar in politics must be exposed whether NDC or NPP. There are smart and intelligent youths in the system yet we allow the greedy idiooooits use tribal bull shhhiiit to deceive us
Am not shock for such turn of even.when he was hosted by the most ***barred word*** and fake journalist in Ghana AFIA something. Fake news . Their days are numbered
According to several reports going round, GAs have been asking people who are not from Accra to leave Accra and go back to their hometowns (towns and villages) because they are not GAs. Clearly GAs don't know the role of a national capital. You don't need to go to school to know that gold is not mined in Accra, that cocoa is not grown in Accra, and that crude oil is not drilled in Accra. Yet, Accra is where Ghana spends virtually all her resources because it is the capital. Cocoa farmers, who bring over $3 billion dollars of foreign exchange revenue each year, do not have potable water, electricity, hospitals, motorable roads, and textbooks in their schools. What is the role of the capital? The capital of a nation hosts the seat of government. This is where the president and his ministers live and work. This is where representatives of all constituencies in the country (MPs) meet to deliberate issues. The chief justice and justices of the superior courts also live and work in Accra. Aside this, the capital hosts all the head offices of ministries and several government agencies. In fact several things can only be done in the capital, such as acquiring a passport, registering a business, or even initiating the payment of pensions. In addition to this, the capital hosts the head offices of businesses. Businesses not located in the capital also need to maintain at list an office for lobbying. All Ghanaians know that the national capital hosts several foreign missions and the head offices of several international organizations. It shouldn't be too difficult to understand why people from all over Ghana come to Accra, or live in Accra. Some are brought to Accra to maintain the official residencies of traditional authorities from all the other regions. Private citizens who regularly need to come to Accra do the same. Why then should a GA (an aborigine of Accra) ask a Ghanaian in Accra what he or she is doing in Accra? Ghanaians from the other regions are the strangers (aliens) to many of them. Why would anyone ask a Ghanaian to leave Accra because he or she does not belong to the indigenous ethnic group. Some even ask visiting traditional authorities why they come to Accra. Clearly, mass education needs to take place. Had a better arrangement for a capital been made at independence, would we have had this problem? No! But if I may ask, is this whole beautification of Accra objective prudent? If the various regions get some infrastructure, it would help all. A better arrangement for a national capital needs to be made.
The Minister of Armyworms must stop making nuisance of himself because Ghanaians are fed up with his empty noises on radio which don't bring food to the people.
Madamfo, if you don't have any sensible answer to give, it would be better you kept quiet. Maybe time will quench the anger and controversy your minister stirred in the media circles. I don't know if NPP has its own market where only party members attend. When all goes well for some people who never anticipated they would come this far, this is how they talk. Come December 7.