Ghana's former High Commissioner to India, Lawyer Sam Pee Yalley has bemoaned the ‘negative picture’ painted by President Akufo Addo during his first presentation of State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Parliament.
President Akufo-Addo on Tuesday, February 21, 2017, in line with Article 67 of the 1992 Constitution, appeared before Parliament to deliver his first State of the Nation Address.
The address gave highlights of the present state of various sectors of the country’s economy, as inherited from the erstwhile John Mahama-led government.
He also announced his plans to remedy the challenges left behind by the previous administration.
Commenting on a panel discussion on Radio Gold’s Alhaji and Alhaji, Sam Pee Yalley who described the address as the ‘shortest’ SONA in the country’s history indicated that there was no way the previous administration achieved zero success while in office.
The immediate-past administration, he said, chalked various achievements; adding that President Akufo Addo should have mentioned it instead of painting a gloomy picture of the economy.
“…the president gave an impression that the country will collapse. If this is the situation how did the president order that we should pay outright the outstanding money of the military? He forgot all the good things that the former President did. The world is not made up of mountains alone. If you talk about the mountains, you talk about the valleys also. Why did the President choose to go to parliament then lament and forget about the fact that we have achieved something? Why are we painting this country as a failed state whereas other countries are looking up to us as their saviours; I don’t understand”
Speech writers
Sam Pee Yalley has also urged the President to educate his speech writers on the use of ‘the Ghanaian People’.
According to him, “it gives the impression that we are foreigners” or we are not valued as Ghanaians.
“Those who are handling the President and his speeches; we are not the Ghanaian people; we are Ghanaians. It gives the impression that either foreigners are writing these speeches or they just don’t value us. On two occasions, they refer to us; the Ghanaian people. Please we are not the Ghanaian people; we are proud Ghanaians. These little things affect the image of the country. So Mr President, I want you to advise your speech writers that we are not the Ghanaian people. We are Ghanaians…”
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SOON WHEN THE INDEPENTENT PROSECUTOR STARTS HIS WORK SAM YALLEY AND HIS NDC WILL FACE THE MUSIC ***barred word***.
Ahhhh! Uncle Sam, you're embarrassing your wife and children with your hollow critique of President Akufo-Ado's SoNA.
Since when did Sam Pee become a Linguist? Anyway, I don't blame him - when you want to punch holes in a presentation which is impenetrable like Nana Ado's SoNA, you end up becoming an English linguist. Much ado about nothing!
IF YOU LIVE IN A GLASS HOUSE, DO NOT THROW STONES. JOHN MAHAMA AND THE NDC PRODUCED A BROCHURE FOR 6TH MARCH INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION WITH "H E UHURU KENYATTA, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF GHANA." AND YALLEY IS HERE DISTURBING OUR EARS WITH ***barred word*** NOISES, BECAUSE HE IS IDLE AND THE DEVIL HAS GIVEN HIM SOMETHING TO DO, YALLEY HAVING IDLE, LAZY HANDS. NDC, STOP YOUR CRIES ABOUT NOTHING, WHICH DOES NOT BUILD GHANA. COME AGAIN, NDC YALLEY.
Sam I like to Pee Yalley has nothing better to do than p!ss on everything NPP, LOL!
BWK plagiarism is better than Mahama paper,where is my paper,I think some pages have been taking out what a disgrace in the presence of African leaders but fo*ls as ndc who are backwards and will remain so till thy kingdom come were and are happy with that disgusting scene. Plagiarism by leaders is not a crime and it's not something never heard of. Most of American leaders do the same. Obama took some pages from Abraham Lincoln and so what? Only fo*ls who have nothing to do and think they have to make a joke of everything to show their ignor*ance. In fact ndc are a bunch of unco*th and uncultured primitive lot in this century and I don't know when they will mature to move with the world. They think their primitive world is the best hence do not want to learn. Ghanaians didn't know but have seen now,that ndc is no visionary party and we can't be part of that backwardness.
When you copy too much from the net or internet you end up making this kind of mistakes. No wonder part of Nana's speech was plagiarized. Nana Addo speech writers copy too from the net which is very bad.
Mr, SAM PEE YARLEY, PLEASE GIVE US A BREAK.AS AN AMBASSADOR TO INDIA,WHAT DID WE BENEFIT FROM YOU. INSTEAD OF YOU TO THINK ABOUT HOW YOU CAN HELP YOUR PEOPLE FROM AHANTA,YOU ARE MAKING PROPAGANDA. THE USE OF GHANAIAN PEOPLE IS NOT A CRIME OK.STOP YOUR CHEAP AND POPULIST POLITICKING.
who is this at all? as for these ndc guys, they are already hungry oooo, sorry for them they are going to be in opposition in the next 36years, by that time, all of them including the one talking would have gone!!!
@ ***barred word*** with this behavior NDC will find opposition VERY BITTER. We are only 2 months into Nana's 8 years and you are crying? Ei, 'enea mo bebre papa!'.