President of Policy thunk tank, Imani Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has described politics in Ghana as base and cheap.
This comes after Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, Ayisi Boateng indicated in an address to some TESCON members that if he had his own way, he would have prioritized members of the New Patriotic Party before he would consider other Ghanaians.
His comments were met with public outrage with several people calling on the President to as a matter of urgency sack him to save the face of the country. After defending his stance severally and saying he sees nothing wrong with his address, he rendered an apology to the Ghanaian populace.
But reacting to the comments by the High Commissioner, Franklin Cudjoe indicated that “The bar for responsible leadership in public office is too low in this town. In far seeing countries, public officers RESIGN for accepting a bottle of wine as a gift, others for ‘inappropriately touching the knee of a female journalist’ – yes, Britain’s Defense Secretary just resigned because of this. Yet, in this part of our world, nothing would have moved former President Mahama to resign for accepting a car gift from a beneficiary of a road construction contract. The man simply ignored our calls”.
He said ” Under the apparently changed scheme of things, all sorts of banal statements are being made by some public office holders feeding fat on our taxes to the applause of their rampaging acolytes on social media and we again literally have to beg them to apologize for their offensive conduct”.
Franklin Cudjoe noted that “Politics is really base and cheap here. All sorts of characters wielding some power think they have arrived. Classless. Leadership out to be based on merit, pragmatism and a certain level of class”.
source:a1radioonline.com
