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Director of Elections of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu Ampofo has asked Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to stop responding to every criticism of the government.
According to him, Dr. Bawumia was elected Vice President to assist in running of affairs of the State.
Mr. Ofosu Ampofo delivered this advice to the Vice President on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' programme while commenting on Dr. Bawumia's statement to former President John Mahama.
Dr. Bawumia described the former President as clueless and someone "parroting propaganda" after Mr. Mahama rubbished the government's National Digital Property Addressing System (NDPAS).
Former President labeled the NDPAS as a "419 scam", asking "how can you launch a Google GPS system that is freely available on our mobile phone and say it is a national addressing system. It is such a pity. Why will you embarrass the president so much?"
"You go and take a whole president to bring him to come and launch a system that is 419.
"When we talk about accountability, this is where the president should show that he is serious about corruption . . . The toughness of the fight against corruption is that you are able to take action against your own people and that is what we did when we were in office. Here the NPP seems unable to take, the president seems unable to take self-action in anything," Mr. Mahama added.
After Mahama's assessment of the system, Vice President Dr. Bawumia sought to educate the former President on how the new system works.
"When I read his reasoning for such a description, it was evident to me that he has no clue about what he was talking about and was just engaged in parroting propaganda. I actually had a good laugh. Let me therefore take this opportunity to educate him and others who may think like him about Ghana’s landmark digital property addressing which has been achieved in less than one year, something his government could not do in eight years!" Dr Bawumia said.
He further stressed that it is prudent for one to "take your time to make sure you know what you are talking about otherwise you would be sadly exposed as being ignorant of simple facts as in this case".
But Mr. Ofosu Ampofo finds nothing wrong with the former President's comments about the NDPAS and so wondered why the Vice President would spend his time and energy responding to every bit of something a person says regarding the government.
According to him, though the system has got some good and bad sides, the Vice President should know that it was not built in isolation; in that the Mahama-NDC government provided the platform for the current administration to build the addressing system on.
He said the vice president has turned into the "Chief Propagandist of the government".
He made reference to the street naming system that the previous government spearheaded and believe that forms the basis for the digital address system.
"He has reduced governance to propaganda, and for me it's most unfortunate," he stated.
He also pinpointed some defects in the NDPAS and hoped the government will take notice of and rectify.
However, he wants to remind the Vice President of his position in governance, cautioning him to stop behaving like the "propaganda mouthpiece of the government".
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Look at this f000.00lish NDC man too.... John Ford Mahama has reduced our presidency to collection of car as bribe from foreigners....
Who know the academic background of Koku Anyidoho I would like to know. The task he has taken upon himself to denigrate Dr. Bawumiah is too arduous for him. Because no one takes his criticism serious. Perhaps he should directs his outbursts at Abronye DC. He is intellectually dull.
Hey so Mahama shld talk but Bawumia shldnt talk.hmmmm
Look at this uneducated man
Mo kohwenii Mahama no koraaa, mo se mo bu no. Who lies more than your pathetic party and its leaders and members . Your trademark has always been lies, propaganda and undermining which by the way your Muntaka has confessed. Mo fa mo asem s))))h)).
Ofusu Ampofo is a very fuuuuuulish man. He didn't see anything wrong when John Mahama described NPP is pigs but he is worried about what Bawumia said. Ofosu Ampofo you are a pig. Gyimmiii
The biggest kettle calling the pot black? Eeeeiiiii ewiase! Ooh ndc fuo mo y3 enimguasifuo papa. Did I see someone writing "pathological" and a "disgrace"? Eeer! By the way, your continuous misspelling of "lair" which is correctly spelt LIAR is rather a disgrace. Ndc, get a life wai na mo b3 b))) opposition aky3 paaaaaa. Bawumiah is not your coequal wai. Blare yourselves 🤣🤣🤣
THE TRUTH IS MAHAMA AND NDC PEOPLE MET THEIR MATCH. BLOW FOR BLOW AND BOOT TO BOOT. IF BAWUMIA HAD KEPT QUIET YOU WILL SAY HE IS ***barred word***. THE 72 QUESTIONS ASKED BY BAWUMIS BEFORE THE ELECTIONS REMAINED TO BE ANSWERED UNTIL TODAY. SHAME ONTO YOU NDC.
Dr Bawumia is a great lair .He has no knowledge of politics and always miscalculate figures.
This man talks as if all the wisdom in this world is in his head but according to his own ndc people, when he wanted to become the vice-president of his party, his qualification betrayed him. It is only reasonable to suggest that he is nursing that same ambition again hence insulting everybody including the current President and the Vice.