Akufo-Addo Lied About Abundance Of Food In Ghana - Kwabena Mintah Akandoh

The Member of Parliament(MP) for the Juaboso Constituency on the ticket of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Hon. Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has described the State of the Nation Address delivered by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as empty.

According to the Juaboso MP, the speech of President Akufo-Addo lacks substance and it is full of lies, making it disappointing to listen with the attention it should deserve.

“Sometimes one is disappointed because the elders and leaders who are supposed to tell us the truth for us to replicate same and work hard, it gets to a point you ask yourself if it is worth it. If a President of Ghana is saying that Ghana is a net exporter of food, won’t you be surprised? Then you ask yourself, is politics all about lies; that in Ghana, we export food abroad?”, he marvelled.

He noted that the President cannot be telling Ghanaians the truth about the state of the nation as in recent times, some people were given the permit to import maize from another country.

“Common maize which can be planted at the backyard of every house in the country, we give some people the permit to import some into the country, but the President came to Parliament to tell us that due to Planting for Food and Jobs, there is an abundance of food to the extent that we export some,” he wondered.

He said that it has become a normal ritual for the President to do every year as some people have to sit somewhere and write a speech for him to read to Ghanaians without reflecting on the realities on the ground.

“ . . I was fed up of the President’s lies and so I was just quiet, looking at the President. The constitution allows the President to come to Parliament to read his speech but to me, it was totally an empty speech,” he asserted.

He held the view that President Akufo-Addo’s address of the nation should have talked about the activities of the government in the year 2020 but to him, the President rather chose to include activities of 2019.

“If the President was to speak the truth and raise issues for all of us to debate about, it would have helped the nation,” he mentioned.

He spoke in an interview on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show.