Former
Information Minister under the erstwhile Kufour government, Stephen
Asamoah Boateng has questioned the importance of a picture President
John Mahama took in front of the studios of the Cable News Network (CNN)
in the United States of America.
Addressing the issue on Okay
FM, Hon. Asamoah Boateng asked the President to be more serious and hit
the ground running in order to salvage the economy.
According to
him, there are several pressing issues and economic challenges that the
nation is grappling with; not posing for cameras as the President did
during his official visit to the US. He admonished the President to put
measures and policies in place to develop the country so as to ensure a
better living for Ghanaians.
“You must put such picture in your
drawer, not show it to Ghanaians. He should rather show us a picture
which proves what developmental structures are underway...I would have
even understood it if he had posed in front of GTV…There’s work (to be
done); let him do it,” he told President Mahama.
President John
Dramani Mahama is currently in the USA and has been meeting the Ghanaian
communities in some states including Atlanta.
During his visit,
he was in the studios of CNN where he held series of interviews with
CNN’s Fionnuala Sweeney on issues affecting the country and the African
continent.
He then managed to pose for the cameras in front of
CNN but this seems not to have gone down well with some members of the
Ghanaian public back home. And Stephen Asamoah-Boateng appears to be one
of them.
“…he went to work for the nation so I was expecting
photographs of him shaking hands with some other president, or anything
to show that he is working hard to alleviate the hardship of the people
but what is in circulation depicts a president who is on a vacation”.
“…that
is why we point to the fact that this NDC government is not showing any
sense of leadership. It seems we are stack in one place. So if it was a
photo that has to do with the work he went to do, I would have
preferred it because it would have been more businesslike”. |
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