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�I am sure he is benefitting from the fraud but his utterances are not fair�.if I were the president, I would have sacked him one time� Those were the comments of Founding President and CEO of Policy Think-tank, IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe, on recent remarks by Minister for Food and Agriculture, Fifi Kwetey against his (Cudjoe's) person. Fifi Kwetey, had in an interview with Radio Gold, Tuesday, pooh-poohed the academic credentials of IMANI Boss, Franklin Cudjoe. According to him, it took the head of the policy think tank several attempts to pass �his A-level economics�. �It was quite ironic hearing that this guy was even struggling to pass his A-level economics. He had to take it many times. While he took three years, three different attempts to get �A� in economics, I took half of that time and below to obtain it. I got �A� in not just economics but in all my subjects in one year and my record is there in Achimota School,� he said on Radio Gold. Franklin Cudjoe and his Deputy Kofi Bentil as expected did not allow the Agric Minister to go scot free; they also took him to the cleaners. (http://elections.peacefmonline.com/pages/politics/201501/228701.php) and (http://elections.peacefmonline.com/pages/politics/201501/228710.php) Commenting on the payroll fraud as captured in a report by KPMG, a leading international audit firm and a respected accounting and business advisory companies worldwide, the IMANI CEO roped in his recent media altercation with the Ketu South MP and wondered if the minister was benefitting from the Ghost names that are on government payroll. IMANI Ghana, had in an earlier statement, charged government to adopt stringent measures to fix the �messy mechanized payroll�. According to him, it is wrong for workers as old as 100 years and below 18 years to be on government�s payroll. "Some of these people are on retirement and others are forged names," the IMANI Boss said and urged the Controller and Accountant General�s Department to get to the bottom of �this scandal�. Franklin told Nana Yaw Kesse, host of PEACE FM's "Kokrokoo" that these are the issues that should engage the attention of Fifi Kwetey and not the academic credentials of a government critic. �I am sure he is benefitting from the fraud but his utterances are not fair�.if I were the president, I would have sacked him one time. You cannot do this in Kufuor�s administration�What will the insults do?� he wondered.