North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to retract and offer an immediate apology to Torgbui Adzongaga Amenya Fiti V and the people of Aflao over his “derision, disrespect and condescension” to the Chief.
“The venerable Torgbui Adzongaga Amenya Fiti V and the people of Aflao deserve an immediate retraction and apology from President Akufo-Addo”.
President Nana Akufo-Addo in a Peace FM interview asked the Paramount Chief of the Aflao Traditional Area to “complete” the abandoned E-block Community Day Senior High School in the area himself if he is frustrated about the delay.
Torgbui Adzonu-Gaga Amenya Fiti V on Wednesday, October 20, gave government a four-month ultimatum to complete the school building for use.
The school is one of the E-blocks built during the Mahama administration and is almost 90 per cent complete. It has some 26 classrooms and five departments, including a science block but has stalled since 2016.
In a Facebook rebuttal to the President’s comments, Ablakwa said “our revered chiefs and custodians of our proud traditions deserve utmost respect at all times regardless of which part of the country they exercise their authority”.
Mr. Ablakwa insisted “No chief anywhere in Ghana should be spoken to with such derision, disrespect and condescension” he added.
The North Tongu MP said Torgbui Fiti V rather deserves commendation for his courage in speaking out against the “reckless wasteful” culture of abandoning inherited projects.
Abelakwa stressed that “we are one people united in our collective successes and challenges; intemperate language from the President who ordinarily should be strengthening national cohesion with his pronouncements ought to be condemned by all well-meaning Ghanaians”.
