Acting Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has dismissed calls for Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa to be sacked after stating party members are his priority when it comes to job opportunities.
Freddie Blay says people have given their own interpretation to George Ayisi Boateng’s comments and want to hang him for it.
“People make it look like this is a political issue...because of that, he has committed a gargantuan sin for that matter we must call for his head", he told Joy FM Tuesday.
Addressing members of the student wing of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), the Tertiary Students’ Confederacy Network (TESCON), in Kumasi Mr Ayisi Boateng said;
“This government is doing its best to create job opportunities and me for instance, I told my people over there [that], it is because of NPP that I’m here, so the NPP man is my priority".
He explained that it is by dint of the hard work of party loyalists that put the party back in power after eight years in opposition.
His comments has attracted condemnations in sections of the public with some people calling for him to resign or be sacked. But he is also getting some support from his party members.
Freddie Blay becomes the highest profile party leader to weigh into the controversy 24 hours after it was first reported in the media.
According to him, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lacks the moral authority to comment on the matter saying it is the height of hypocrisy to cry discrimination.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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Africans can be so hypocritical it is mind boggling. I dare anyone to tell me that what this man said does not actually go on in virtually every African country? In some way he needs to be congratulated for voicing what goes on all the time and yet everyone keeps mute about it which is the African way of dealing with wrong doing until someone becomes bold enough to speak out what is seemed to be a taboo and therefore must not be said. Before admonishing the man at least be honest enough to admit that this goes on and may be it is time to find ways to end it now that someone has let the cat out of the bag.
This is one thing which is so frustrating about Ghanaians. The Ghana Constitution frowns upon discrimination so if a public officer is caught discriminating, legal action should simply be taken against him by concerned individuals and civil society groups. Legal action to punish him is the best action in the interest of ordinary Ghanaians! Instead of playing party politics with such a serious matter since he is not speaking for government or his political party but simply committing a crime against the people of Ghana.
Is this guy Blay really a lawyer? he does,t speak like a matured man at all, he has never made sen-se to me. For him to be defending these comments from this loose talker- the high commissioner is not surprising at all. Now NPP supporters are more Ghanaians than other Ghanaians huh? Ok.