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Spokesperson for the John Mahama 2020 Campaign, James Agyenim Boateng, has asked the ruling government to focus on ‘real issues' instead of criticizing former President John Mahama for meeting with members of the diplomatic corps.
The former President has been slammed for some of the issues he raised when he met with members of the diplomatic corps a few days ago.
At the meeting, he showed them videos and pictures of the violence which occurred during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election on January 31, 2019. (Click to read)
Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo reacting to this, described him as 'unpatriotic'.
“To say the least, this is unpatriotic and shameful. It is because if he gathered Ghanaians, call it the academia or Ghanaian professionals or Ghanaian businessmen and he talked about matters of concern to him, I’ll have no problem. He’s a former Head of State and therefore a very important opinion leader, but to gather foreigners and try to paint Ghana black is just not acceptable,” the Senior Minister said.
Apart from that, over the weekend, Minister of Information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah at a press briefing said: "the Government of Ghana will this week put the diplomatic committee in Ghana on formal notice that former President John Dramani Mahama peddled several falsehoods and sought to undermine the authority of the state."
Reacting to these issues, James Ayenim Boateng said, meeting members of the diplomatic corps is a normal phenomenon within the political arena; hence the ruling government should stop playing diversionary tactics and focus on unraveling what actually led to the violence at Ayawaso West Wuogon.
"It is a routine exercise; it is not against the law to meet the diplomatic corps. They should focus on the main issue; what actually led to the violence and not the meeting with the diplomatic corps . . . people should feel secure in the country; it appears we may have to think twice when we see people packed in vehicles," he indicated while speaking to Kwami Sefa Kayi in an interview on Monday's edition of Peace FM morning show 'Kokrokoo'.
He further opined that "those criticizing the former President have been most unfair to him . . . he should be commended instead of thinking he is painting the country black. If the violence had not occurred would he have met with the diplomats? All these controversies do not take away the fact that something has gone wrong . . . the former President called for calm and he should be commended.
Source: Rebecca Addo Tetteh/Peacefmonline.com/[email protected]
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if you allow yourself to be advice by small boys then disgrace will never depart from you
Agyenim Boateng is as ***barred word*** as his master Mahama.
You & the Ex President have put faec es on your own faces !! How disgraceful !!! You are now telling us not to focus on the meeting!! We should focus on what instead !!! ???
If we say this man is a con man you think we are joking!!!
ITS YOU AND YOUR MAHAMA DUDE TATS GONNA CRY 4EVER. BECAUSE YOU CAN NEVER RULE GHANA AGAIN. GHANAIANS ARE NOT SHALLOW MINDED AS YOU AND YOUR GRIIDY MAHAMA.
Oh Mr. Former President, that's below the belt. You went too far, meanwhile most of the evidences you showed have turned out to be untruth. You see how un_wise you are? Don't be too power drunk because you will not taste power again. Ghanaians have been fair to you... ie. From Assemblyman to MP, Deputy Minister, Minister, Vice President and President. Habs! If not greed, what at all do you want again? Forget it John, you're not coming back... period! 😡
You can cry and die, Mr. Mahama will show the videos again and again. akufo addo has blind you with his juju so you can see clearly. You are all evil people criticizing Mahama for fucko. NDC will much you boot for boot come 2020. Just watch
It is not moral to be faking situations to project your case. Mahama is a sellout, he is traitor and a hypocrite. He does not love Ghana.
I think the Sharp-Teethes are missing the point again as always; the issue with your incompetent Mahama is not about meeting the Diplomatic Corps, its about destroying the nation Ghana with his n@sty falsehood. Im not sure who collated those videos to Mahama for such propaganda but its a huge disgrace to the NDC party as a whole.
No one has said it is against any law for the former president to meet the diplomatic corps, what they are saying is that he peddled untruths and lies. they have succeeded in punching holes is the narratives given by the former president with regards to the 3 videos he showed when he met them foreign dignitaries. to the extent that the former president has even alluded to this fact on his facebook wall that people should consider the import of what he said quiet clearly indicates that he acknowledges that he peddled untruths and lies at that gathering.