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Seasoned journalist, Kwesi Pratt has chided President Akufo-Addo over the relocation of traders and artisans around his private residence at Nima.
The traders and artisans have been asked to vacate the premises for security reasons.
Though the people have traded at the President’s Nima residence for years and before Nana Akufo-Addo was elected as Head of State, it appears it is now crucial for them to be relocated, and according to a statement by Presidency; an agreement is locked on the issue between government and the residents.
But speaking on "Kokrokoo" on Peace FM, Kwesi Pratt expressed disgust over the move by the government.
According to him, the traders and artisans have been engaging in their daily business routines without causing any problems to the President.
He further added that the President, on his part, won the hearts of the people to vote for him because of their relationship with him.
He therefore wondered when the traders became a threat to the President that their stay around his private residence is deemed to be of security concern; hence a reason for their relocation.
“What are you protecting the Head of State against?” Mr. Pratt asked, expounding further that “prior to the election, I saw my brother Nana Akufo-Addo joining queues; what trotro did he not board in Ghana? Which chop bar didn’t he go to? As for his Vice President Bawumia, when he goes to the chop bar; he doesn’t only eat the food but also takes the pestle to pound the fufu? The people were then not threats. So, it means change has come. When you become a President, then it means chop bar operators and workshop operators turn into threats?”.
He also sought to find out if the President is no more the “man of the people” as he was acclaimed before his election as President of the Republic.
Also registering his displeasure with the treatment meted out to the traders and artisans, Mr. Pratt asked why only the traders and artisans are requested to vacate the residence, saying “are the squatters, chop bar operators and the like the only people who can threaten the President? What of the very rich and wealthy people in the area? The people having a good life and owning beautiful houses around the President’s residence, are they not also threats?”
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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THERE IS ONLY ONE F00L IN GHANA AND EVERYONE MUST KNOW HIM. ABBA. WHAT SORT OF PERSON IS THIS MAN CALLED PRATT. KEWUO. THE POEPLE NEAR THE PRESIDENT MIGHT NEVER BE THREAT TO THE PRESIDENT BUT THOSE WHO MIGHT PRETEND COMING TO THEM, THE VENDORS CAN BE THREAT TO THE PRESIDENT. ANY PERSON WHO WANTS TO DO SOMETHING STUPIIIID AND EVIL WOULD SIMPLY PRETEND GOING TO ANY OF THESE VENDORS. PLEASE DR. ENIN AND REV. OWUSU PEMPAH GIVE KPRATT SOME LESSONS OF SECURITY AND I WILL PERSONALLY DEFRAY THE COST. AND YOU, SEFA KAYI, YOU MAKE YOU PROGRAM ATTRACTIVE AND EDUCATIIVE WHEN YOU BRING PERSONS LIKE KWAKU BAAKO AND NOT KWESI PRATT AND HIS CLASS.
IF PEOPLE LIKE KWASI PRATT IS SAYING THIS SELFISH, WICKED, EVIL & CORRUPT MIND, THEN EDUCATION IS DISGRACED! PEOPLE LIKE HIM SHOULD SPEAK AND INSPIRE GHANAIANS. CHOP-BAR OPERATORS MAY NOT NECESSARILY POSE A SECURITY PROBLEM TO NANA ADDO, BUT CRIMINAL-MINDED PEOPLE LIKE KWASI PRATT MAY!
NOT THAT KWESI PRATT BUT BAD PEOPLE CAN MEDDLE WITH CHOP OPERATORS AND DO BAD , YOU OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW BETTER
I am very sorry for Mr Pratt, he talks big on every issues he does not know on radio stations. He knows nothing on security matters and he is not right thinking person.
Kwesi either you are a fo0l or you are behaving like one. You should know better. You are making it too obvious that you were on NDC payroll.
IRRELEVANT JOURNALIST.YOU DON'T MAKE SENSE NOWADAYS.YOU FOOLLL TO MUCH.
can you have chop bars around the white house? even though he is not living in the flagstaff this is his home if he wants the place cleared up so be it.
kwasi pratt, has become ***barred word*** when it comes to thinking, all in the name of politics,a class one pupil is of great use to the state than kwasi pratt today. i wonder why such a waste is often given audience.
This is waaaay below you Mr. Pratt. Even the NDC serial callers or foot soldiers will not ask what we are protecting the head of state against.
As this Pratt got someone that advises him