Seasoned journalist, Kwesi Pratt has slammed Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia claiming the latter did not pay attention to his own speech during the Town Hall and Results Fair on Tuesday, August 18.
Dr. Bawumia held the Results Fair to give Ghanaians a clearer picture of the infrastructure record of the Akufo-Addo administration.
From road networks, agriculture to health and other sectors of the economy, the Vice President touted the government's achievements in its first term.
“The investment in infrastructure by the NPP government over the last three years has been massive. I dare say our investment in infrastructure, our infrastructure record, is second to none for any government in its first term under the Fourth Republic.
“Notwithstanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the completion times of some projects, the data indicates that in the fourth republic, no government has achieved as much in its first term of office in terms of infrastructure projects it initiated its first term as the NPP government of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo'', he said.
But responding to Dr. Bawumia's assertions on ''Kokrokoo'' on Peace FM, Kwesi Pratt told host Kwami Sefa Kayi that the Vice President failed to do fact-checking before delivering his speech.
According to him, Dr. Bawumia, at his Results Fair, stated the government had rehabilitated Tamale Hospital but gave the location of the hospital to be in the Greater Accra Region.
Mr. Pratt questioned how Tamale Hospital found its way into Greater Accra and called Dr. Bawumia incompetent for not rectifying his mistake.
''The second phase of the rehabilitation of Tamale hospital and so forth is in Greater Accra. The fact-check shows either he or those who wrote his speech were not diligent enough . . .What incompetence is more than placing Tamale in Accra in a Vice Presidential speech?'' he rhetorically asked.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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As if he has never experienced printer’s devil in his paper before. I remember a program was enacted identifying such mistakes in the papers. It was stoped in less than a month. So many papers had mistakes printed in them.
Massa Kwesi Pratt, competence and incompetence are shown as direct results of one's actions and inactions oo, not a mistake or two in one's speech. Your hatred for Dr. Bawumia is deep but who Jah blesses...
Akwasi Pratt does not even recognise the possibility of a slip of tongue in any speech by anybody,including himself.He is only refusing because of hatred for Dr Bawumia and his blind support for what he supports even when it is wrong.We have known him for a very long time,and nobody begrudges him.