Let bygones be bygones-Minister pleads on behalf of resigned “insulting” colleague minister
A deputy minister for the Ministry of Food and Agriculture in-charge of Annual Crops, Dr. Sagre Bambangi, has pleaded for a seizure of criticisms directed at his embattled colleague minister who resigned this week following his ethnocentric and insulting language.
William Agyapong Quaitoo was heavily criticised for his comments that Northerners are difficult people and liars who were only lying to get support from government through the invasion of the fall armyworms.
His comments attracted series of demands from Northern members of parliament, chiefs and youth groups who asked the President to dismiss him.
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In the wake of the intense pressure, the deputy minister yielded and tendered in his resignation letter apparently to avoid been fired by the President.
But responding to a question by journalists during his working visit to the Upper East Region Thursday, Dr. Bambangi pleaded for forgiveness for his resigned colleague.
“I wish you had not gone to this matter again because I am sure you are referring to the utterances of my colleague Honorable Member for Akyem-Oda. But I thought that he rendered an unqualified apology to the nation at large and to northerners in particular and I wish that we don’t revisit this matter again because I’m also a northerner and I won’t like us to talk more about this matter again.”
By: Joshua Asaah|A1radioonline.com|Ghana
