Retired Diploma KB Asante has suggested that Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng deserves to be reshuffled away from his post to afford him chance to learn proper diplomatic behaviour.
In a brief reaction on Citi FM Wednesday to Ayisi Boateng’s concession to seek the interest of New Patriotic Party (NPP) members first ahead of other nationals because to him, NPP members who voted the party into power are more Ghanaian than the rest, KB Asante said the high commissioner’s comment doesn’t make sense, “with all due respect.”
“No Ghanaian is more Ghanaian than another. We are all Ghanaians with a Head of State who we elect and he is no more a head of state for Ashantis than for Kwahus and so on. We should get this cardinal point through otherwise the country will go to rot. All that the high commissioner is saying, with all due respect, it doesn’t make sense. He is there for all Ghanaians. The head of state is there for all Ghanaians. President Akufo-Addo is not there for his party people, he is there for all of us. Until we recognize this cardinal principle, the country will drift. And the earlier the high commissioner and all representatives of Ghana realise that they have been appointed to work for the good of Ghana and not for one particular party, we shall be in difficulties.”
According to KB Asante, how the erring diplomat is handled depends on the appointing authority but that he would have moved him away from South Africa to another country so he could learn the nuances of the job.
Mr. KB Asante wondered what sort of training the government offers its envoys these days and recalled how 10 of them were offered training abroad upon their appointment by the Nkrumah administration. KB Asante said he was only a school head then.
But he does not agree that Ayisi Boateng should be recalled and benched altogether, saying if we go on removing the envoys for their faux pas, we will end up without any.
Several calls for the removal of Ayisi Boateng have followed his comments to members of the NPP’s students wing, the Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON), since it became public, but the man has vehemently been defending his comments, saying he has done nothing wrong.
Source: Daily Graphic
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Ayisi Boateng must go. Who doesn't know that there is discrimination at every level of society. He is not wise and he should be shown the exit. Mr. President do something before you die. Exit him now
As for KB Asante his comments are betraying him. I hope he wasn't on a hospital bed the last several years. He should have spoken out when Mahama said the NDC wears a black belt in violence and host of other dangerous utterances from the NDC in the past.
Nothing has ever made sense to KB Asante.He is the know all of everything in Ghana Politics but has achieved nothing worth emulating.
WHERE WAS KB ASANTE WHEN NDC DISCRIMINATED AGAINST LOTS OF GHANAIANS WHO DID NOT SUPPORT THEM. HE WAS VERY QUIET.WHEN FORMER PRESIDENT MILLS ADMONISHED HIS MINISTERS AND APPOINTEES TO OPEN THEIR DOORS AND HELP NDC MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS, MR KB ASANTE, THE GA ADANGBE TRIBAL BIGOT SAID NOTHING. DURING THE KUFUOR ERA KB ASANTE ORGANIZED GA ADANGBE YOUTH TO DEMONSTRATE FOR THEIR LANDS THAT WERE TAKEN BY THE STATE DURING THE COLONIAL DAYS.SOME OF THE PLACARDS READ THAT KUFUOR WAS ASHANTI AND SHOULD LEAVE ACCRA FOR KUMASI.KB ASANTE DIDNT CONDEMN IT. IT IS ONLY WHEN NPP IS IN POWER THAT HE FINDS HIS VOICE. THIS IS HYPOCRITICAL
We are all being hypocritical. In every government some people are more ghanaians than others. If not why don't they appoint any equally qualified ghanaian as a minister but only party members? In the previous NDC government there were ghanaians who were more qualified to be ministers than Okudjato, Omani Boama etc but were not appointed because they were not NDC members. In this current government there are ghanaians who are more qualified to be ministers than some of the appointed ministers but they are not members of NPP. If one has to proof his loyalty to a party before getting employment can we say we are all the same? When you sack youth employment personels because they belong to another party and bring in your party members, are not saying the same thing Ayisi Boateng said in a different way? Pls we should be sincere as stop the hypocrisy.
Was the deputy agric. minister not forced to resign over a comment he made?. is this not a more grievous comment? He doesnt have the interest of the nation at heart by making this divisive comment. He should be removed to serve as a deterrent to all office holders.