Director of Local Government Services at the Office of the President, Dennis Miracles Aboagye and Atik Mohammed, a former PNC General Secretary, on Thursday locked horns while discussing the lithium mining lease granted to Barari DV Ltd.
The two panel members on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” morning show picked on each other while sharing their opposing views on the lithium deal which has aroused controversies.
With Atik objecting to the deal, Dennis Miracles believed the former and his kind of critics are overemphasizing their positions on the deal.
Atik Mohammed argued that the deal is “not protected by any law” and questioned the negotiation skills of the sector Minister saying “we cannot rely on the negotiation skills of a Minister to determine how much carried interest we should have in lithium. This (lithium) is the future. It is going to replace oil, so we can’t be relying on his negotiation skills”.
Atik intimated that he is sending a petition to Parliament to challenge the deal.
On the part of Dennis Miracles, Atik and his likes have no better job to do, hence wasting their energies on criticizing this lithium agreement.
“Sometimes, people need to get busy. It’s okay,” Dennis said, adding “a lot of the people making the commentary are jumping the gun. They are making a lot of assumptions. A lot of the points they are making are not rounded on any facts”.
Following Dennis’ submissions, Atik took a turn to clarify his points and this is where matters intensified.
The studios got heated up with back and forth arguments between the two when Atik Mohammed said the government is behaving like they are interested in protecting the investors rather than the interest of Ghanaians.
His comment didn’t sink down well with Dennis Miracles who responded “no, no, you can’t say that”.
“No, I can’t let him finish,” he insisted when the host of the show, Kwami Sefa Kayi intervened.
This reply from Dennis provoked a reaction from Atik who exclaimed “who are you?”
“Who are you to tell me you can’t let me finish?”, he further hollered.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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You don’t have to be insulting to put a point across. Experience is not acquire by age, experience is acquire by what a person does. Hon. Abu Jinapo has been a Minister for the past seven years he definitely has what it takes to negotiate and btw he did not negotiate alone it was a team that negotiated for Ghana. Atik is entitled to his opinion. For the person saying a degree in physics is a third choice course you are also entitled to your opinion. Go to a University in the USA or anywhere and see if you can qualify to do physics as a degree.
@ Paa Mills, ***barred word*** what has legal background got to do with delivering efficiently. You are very $tupid. You even voted for someone who speaks only LAFA and disappoints. Economic Wizard has flop just because all youknow is certificate. Abu Jinapor is almost Forty and men of experience are telling him to seek broader, all because of greed and selfish interest and kwaseato like you they will fleece the country and we will still be in poverty for life. If someone with legal background is more intelligent than any other. For the records fi going by your assertion then get the real background of the MInister, Abu Jinapor did Physics in KNUST, though Physics is and admirable course the assumed intelligent students will not choose that as a third choice course. We even don't see them in Tech. If not for the dirty politic in Ghana can Junapor be a Minister? Gyimiefuo, is Attik not a Ghanaian? Gyimieee, yenk0 tea he ahas Law background, gyimiefuo
@Paa Mills, the same freedom of speech gives you the right to comment on every issue even when you are writing thrash. Does legal background gives people technical expertise in minerals or make them great negotiators by default? Does it eliminate the potential or risk of conflict of interest issues in negotiations? What has Atiq said that's not sensible? Party gullibles are a huge problem to our country. Reasonable people are asking for a consensus framework that naturally guides all of our negotiations instead of the lose arrangements we have currently which gives so much power to use their discretion to decide for the whole nation. We have seen how all past negotiations have been at the detriment of Ghana and we will not allow that scenario to continue. So all of you whose livelihoods depend on your personal stakes in those rubbish agreements won't have it again going forward. Wick ed and heart less politicians
In Ghana any shallow mind can walk into the studios and talk What is the capacity of Atik to Challenge negotiation skills of a Minister who posses legal profession background. It appears in Ghana any body who invited to Radio stations to talk knows more than any Ghanaian ?why