The managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has criticised President Akufo Addo for firing back at critics who claim that his Independence Day speech was full of distortions.
According to him, if President Akufo Addo sees young critics as unqualified to criticise him as far as the country’s history is concerned, then he (Akufo Addo) should not have read his speech at all; ‘unless he (Akufo Addo) was born in 1771’
President Akufo Addo said at the ‘Ghana: 60 Years On’ Unity Ball 2017 that “this has been a very strange week. On Monday, I made a speech to the country which I tried to speak about how we became Ghana. And like everything I say, it has ended up in controversy. But that is how it should be. A politician who doesn’t generate controversy is a dull politician…The amusing part of it is that the people who did not live through the independence era – young people who came much after – claim that I distorted the history of Ghana and belittled the role of Kwame Nkrumah. The one man there who actually lived through the era, who was here in Ghana at the time, embraced me as having enhanced the image of Kwame Nkrumah. And that tells you everything about Ghanaian politics. That is President Mugabe. He gave me a big hug,”
In response, Kwesi Pratt said: “if that were the case, what was President Akufo Addo doing talking about the bond of 1844. If people who did not live through the independence struggle have no right to appreciate history and to comment on history, then what was President Akufo Addo doing commenting on the bond of 1844 or the Aborigines right protection society? Perhaps unknown to all of us, our president was born in 1771 because if you accept this logic, then only a person born in perhaps 1771 could have read the speech that he read. In appreciating history, you don’t have to be a methuselah to be able to do that. And this jibe at young people is very interesting”
The renowned journalist was contributing to a panel discussion on Radio Gold's Alhaji and Alhaji.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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UNCLE KWASI PRATT, PLEASE TAKE EASY THE MAN AKUFFO ADDO DIDN'T SAY PEOPLE SHOULDN'T CRITICIZE THE SPEECH BUT HIS BEEF WAS HOW YOUNGER GENERATION WERE TRYING TO DOWN-PLAY THE ROLE SOME PEOPLE PLAYED YET HISTORY HAS NOT RECOGNIZED THEM AND HAVING BEEN TOLD STILL SOME PEOPLE LIKE YAMMIN WERE LIKE THOSE NAMES LIKE AKUA SHORSHORSHOR AND MADAM DEDE DOESN'T MATTER.EVERYBODY HAS THE RIGHT TO ALSO CORRECT THE PRESIDENT BY ALSO PROVIDING FACTUAL RECODS OF THE STRUGGLES TO INDENPENDANCE
@ DANSO,,,, YOU SEE,,, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO MR. PRATT ALONE TO SEE THE LIES OF THIS EEEDIOT YOU WOULD WANT TO CALL A PRESIDENT.... SEEING THAT THEIR ATTEMPT TO RE WRIGHT THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY IS NOT SITTING WELL WITH THE PEOPLE THEY WISH TO BRAINWASH... AND SO HE TAKES TO THAT TANGENT OF JIBING THE TEAMING YOUTH.... I LISTENED TO THE ADDRESS ON TUNE IN WITH A 23 YEAR OLD GIRL,,, HALF GHANAIAN HALF IRISH... AND AFTER THE SPEECH SHE SAID THE PRESIDENT LIES..... AND I TELL YOU WHAT,, WE ALL KNEW THEIR AGENDA,,,, THE MAN SITTING AS THE SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT TODAY WAS AMONG THOSE WHO DISTORT OUR HISTORY... AND IF WE GO BY AKUFO ADDO'S LOGIG,,,,HE HAS NO BUSINESS DOING THAT,,,, BECAUSE HE DID NOT LIVE THROUGH THOSE YEARS....INCLUDING HE AKUFO ADDO HIMSELF.... SO GET THIS STRAIGHT... THOSE DISTORTIONS WILL BE FIERCELY RESISTED BY THE HUNGRY YOUTH WHO ARE BURNING INSIDE FOR THE TRUTHS,, WHICH INVOLVED THE BOMBINGS, THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS, AND THE COUP ITSELF THAT OVER THREW A LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT. THINK,,,, AND STOP FOLLOWING THAT EEEEDIOT..
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Eeeiiii Akwasi Pratt, so what will Nana Addo do to please you. " AKOKOR BESA DENIARA ENYE AKROMA FEW"