Atik Mohammed has rebuked the Minority in Parliament for refusing to deliver their petition to the Director of Security at the Bank of Ghana, Wing Commander Kwame Asare-Boateng, during their protest on Tuesday, October 3.
The Wing Commander had met the protesters to receive their petition on behalf of the Governor, Dr. Ernest Addison, but the leaders of the protest, who are NDC Members of Parliament, declined to give it to him.
"Parliament invites the Bank of Ghana at least twice a year and he has appeared only three times in seven years so it's not strange. It is the height of disrespect that we will come here and he will send the watchman, the watchman at the Bank of Ghana to come and receive the petition."
"Okay, the watchman should come to Parliament as well, when next he needs anything from Parliament he should send the watchman as well but we will be back. We will give the Police some days to rest but we will be back," Ningo-Prampram law maker, Sam George said in an interview on TV3.
But to Atik, the Governor deputizing his Head of Security to receive the petition was rather an act of respect.
"It's a show of humility and regard for the parliamentary group and indeed all demonstrators to send someone to receive the petition...and you see, what saddens me the more is that he did not just appoint anybody at all but somebody of a highest standing in the bank," he responded during discussions on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" morning show.
He found it unreasonable that the protesters walked back home with their petition.
To him, the demonstration was "about the pursuit of self-interest more than the collective good, because if indeed it's about the pursuit of the collective good, you create an opportunity to make sure you have an engagement with the Governor. And even if you don't want to do that and you have opted for demonstration, make sure you hand over the petition to him and after he's read it, he will give you responses".
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Surmon your parents to parliament . You know more than the minority . Instead of accepting the fact that Governor is disrespectful for appearing twice in seven years and you expect them to be smiling with him because of the huge losses ? ***barred word*** makes you think you can be wise
@nana abakah your comments are in very bad taste and have ethnocentric undertones. Instead of addressing the ediot who made those comments which are his personal opinions, your little, fickle brain has decided that the way to deal with him is to attack the entire "North". To start with, you won't see anyone from the North who is so incompetentt and arrogantt as the BOG governor who isn't really governing anything! Once in a while you find someone who is incompetentt or arrogantt but it is a rare and deadly combination to find someone like dr addisson who combines both vices and with such a person at the helm of affairs it is not surprising the financial sector is in such a mess! So @nana abakah, what dr addisson did does not connote respect in the North or anywhere for that matter! I know it is hard for ethnocentrics like you just as it is hard for racists to reform but try very hard and learn to separate issues from people. I am a proud Northerner and I felt slighted by your comments, ediot!
You are an idoooit and a ***barred word***, if that is respect in the north it's disrespectful in the south where parliament is
Oh Chale, NDC has done mugu paaa! Yawa party herrh. They always put the cart before the horse. Summon the man to parliament first; Addison and his boss Ken Ofori Atta. If adverse findings are made, then we can all support calls for his resignation or removal. But you have judged the man without giving him a chance to be heard and yet you want him to receive your petition. Who in his right senses does that? Plenty english no bi sense oh
Words of wisdom my brother