The Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Kweku Baako Jnr. has criticized Organizers of the 'Kume Preko Reloaded' demonstration.
Lawyer Martin Kpebu led a protest demanding President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to resign.
The demonstrators went out on the streets of the capital city wielding placards with various inscriptions to register their displeasure with the Akufo-Addo administration.
Meanwhile, some have described the protest as a flop.
Adding his voice to the discussion on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' through a text message, Kweku Baako said organizers of the demonstration had a "confusing" message.
"In terms of numbers, it was a flop. Even the message was confusing; asking both the President and Vice President to resign is actually wrong," he said.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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the ***barred word*** called martin kpebu is only seeking relevance, attention and fame in Ghana. I wish he is infected with covid -19, then he would learn sense. Why didn't he ask mahama to resign for the dumso mahame made Ghanaians to go through for years? Why didn't he ask the president to resign when he kpebu was enjoying the free electricity and water during the covid-19 period? May God of Akuffo Addo and the beneficiaries of the free SHS strike him, martin kpebu and his cohorts with incurable diseases and torments!
The only reason why you think it was a flop is because the demonstration was not violent and the leader of the demonstration does not belong to any political party.
There is something fundamentally wrong about how speculation or perception is relied upon to take hold of real facts when you hear some academics, lawyers, and politicians make certain statements to argue out their stances at the expense of informed opinions. I believe there is a lot of intellectual dishonesty in our political space in Ghana. Or do we make incorrect assumptions? We wrongly measure the intellect of people by their level of proficiency in the Queen's language. When such people fail to effectively or intellectually communicate their views, they tend to be insulting and spew lies. Unfortunately, such characters abound in the NDC and their cohorts in the paid press. They are the elements that have jumped on the president, calling him names and hurling insults at him after his candid address. The Ghanaian economy has structural problems that are inherited from our colonial past. There is a lot of intellectual dishonesty here when you hear some pundits of the economics speak about the current challenges as if they are solely the result of the mess of the Akufo-Addo administration, if there is any at all. Meanwhile, the Akufo-Addo administration is the only one in the Fourth Republic to have made a concerted effort to target the structural deficit of the economy. Specifically, FSHS, 1D1F, and the railroad infrastructure, just to name a few. However, the Kufuor administration laid some remarkable trails. The same cannot be said of any NDC administration making a targeted policy to resolve the structural problems except vilification of its political opponents. Ghana beyond the aid agenda is a policy direction, and some dishonest elements seek to ridicule it as a mere slogan. By the way, Ghana's tourism has realized a remarkable boost in the recent times of the Akufo-Addo-Administration. The president made it clear in his speech that we are in crisis, and I see the pandemic and the Ukraine war as the last straw that broke the camel’s back given our unsustainable economic structures.
"Asking both the president and vice president to resign is actually wrong." Yet the leader of the demonstration is a prominent lawyer. He claims to be sincere with his course, and it is not parochial in outlook. I believe he can only tell it to the Mariens if he is not being intellectually dishonest.