*Kwame Gyan (Blogger, journalist and communication practitioner)
Let's call a spade a spade, Alhassan Suhuyini didn't make any ethnocentric comment. If the screenshot making the rounds is all there is to this, then we are being very unfair and wicked to him. Let's stop this.
If you ask me a question and I say to you I won't jump into the gutter with you, for example, does that mean you and your tribe are gutter people? If I said to you i won't play with pigs in their own pen, how does that possibly infer that you and your tribesmen are pigs? Since when did our tribesmen give us the right to represent them in our utterances such that a jab thrown at us meant an insult to them?
Chale make we stop. E no good.
*Aku Baneseh (Reporter With Daily Graphic)
The "Pig Fight" and Reputation...
Alhaji Suhuyini passed a comment, Nana Damoah who felt abused posted the EXACT comments and invited his friends and followers to discuss. I even inboxed him to let it go.
Fast forward, I was later shocked to find AKANS in the equation as being referred to as Pigs by Suhuyini.
As usual, the issue has generated into an NPP/NDC fight. That is to be expected judging from the nature of Ghana's politics. However, it's dangerous to draw tribalism into this issue when NONE of that occurred.
Some hold the view Suhuyini knew what he was doing but as it stands now the phrase is an idiom. I'm not in his brains or God to know what he actually intended. But on the face of it and in the context of English grammar, his text was clear. He was not in the mood for a "fight."
I initially decided to stay on the fence and observe the wrestling from afar, but I have now joined the debate after I saw some Presidential staffers sharing the AKAN angle instead of the original issues raised by Nana Damoah.
Social media is wide and diversified. What goes around comes around and for that reason one cannot twist facts for more than a MINUTE. Screenshots will expose you.
Some people take things for granted by thinking they can get away with anything no matter how jaundiced their arguments are.
Dear Presidential Staffer, your actions here are shaping your friends opinion about you and the high office you occupy. What kind of image are you building for yourself on social media? Your wall propagates the works of the Presidency and occasionally other government agencies. How can the same wall be used to share something that has not occurred? How do you expect right thinking members in society to view your future posts? Ponder.
Despite my reservations about the conduct of some staffers, it's only fair for me to commend Nana Hesse Ogyiri who later conceded on his wall that his attention had been drawn to the non-Akan factor in the Suhuyini v Damoah issue. Such is maturity and taking responsibility when need be.
The Golden Rule
Dear friends and followers in active politics, you are free to do politics but be careful you don't plunge this country into crisis one day with distortions.
We are all growing and must strive to protect our reputation. Politics is not the end of life. Ghana is for all of us and it's important we strive to make it great and strong.
Learn to live by the Golden Rule. Peace.
*James Agyenim Boateng - Fmr Presidential Staffer
... WRESTLE WITH A PIG
"Whenever a boisterous and argumentative person cries to draw you into a public discussion or a wrangle, just remember this bit of advice:
"Don't wrestle with a pig. You'll get dirty which is exactly what the pig likes."
1957, Barney Glazer's Column, The Loris Sentinel, Feb 13, p4
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Hon. Kyei Mensah Bonsu, the current Majority leader in our parliament also responded to a question posed to him by Kwame Nkrumah Etikese,on OK FM regarding his visit to some SHS schools in the Ashanti region to ascertain the progress of school enrollments of the free SHS. In one of the questions which was to do with the Headmasters of the schools they visited, he idiomatically stated that "it is only when you pick a stick or baton on a lunatic or a madperson, there that you may incur his/her anger to react or fight you back". I believe this comments doesn't mean the headmasters in question are Lunatics or Mad people. So those of you claiming Hon.Suhuyini's expression is an insult should go back to the classroom and seek the assistance of an English master for proper tuition.
Yeah right, where was all this English people when Sarkodie made a comment about a Krobo girl and prostitution, when the chief and people of Krobo wanted to roast Sarkodie alove, we didn't hear these idiomatic experts, today they are here defending someone for insultan Akans, if it had been the other guy who had made that comment, these same people defending it would have been the first to condemn him in no uncertain terms hypocrites
Do we even understand what idiomatic expression means. Let us grow up and stop giving unecessary meanings to what people write.
playing with pigs in their pen and sleeping with sheeps and cows in your own room which is better.
i won't play with pigs in their own pen,Please those of you who think u are highly educated excuse us. he is referring to the man as pig, it is totally different from i won't jump into gutters with you.
I Know for sure that, noooooooooo Akan will sleep with cows in his or her room period