When former President Jerry John Rawlings described some badmouthing young politicians in the NDC as babies with sharp teeth little did he know more such reckless talkers will appear on the scene and on the appointment list of the party he founded.
Even before he passed on he endured such badmouthing from people he politically brought up and even clothed. One of them had the temerity to describe him as a barking dog.
Today even though he is no more his concerns about reckless talking and badmouthing persist among politicians especially the NDC.
Reckless responses from political office holders is becoming a feature of NDC appointees a little under a year after the party’s assumption of power.
It is triggered by pressure from the people such politicians are in office to serve who can sometimes be too troublesome anyway. These politicians some of them being in such high offices for the first time in their lives get carried away by the new statuses and spew remarks smacking of insults.
The latest such nonsensical remark from a politician came from the MCE for the Birim Central Municipality.
Solomon Brako Kusi might have been under pressure to address an issue when he ended up insulting not only the people in his municipality but Ghanaians as a whole.
“I have received over GHC6 million as Common Fund and I have been eating tuwon zaafi with it”. This response is anything but a decent one from a public officer representing the President and Commander-In-Chief in the Birim Central Municipality.
The kitchen appears to have become too hot for some appointees and for them garbage responses such as the foregone offer escape vents. Unfortunately the people who do not deserve such cheeky responses would not tolerate this insolent conduct from those who are in office to serve them.
If he has not expressed remorse yet to the people of Birim Central and the country as a whole then we demand such an apology without delay failing which we ask the President to relieve him of his appointment.
The people of Birim Central deserve a better treatment.
Not long ago the Greater Accra Regional Organiser of the NDC Anthony Nukpenu when reacting to demands for the improvement of the road network in Adenta in Accra said Ghanaians complain too much. He went on to say that the rich in the Accra suburb should take up the task.
It would be in order if the leadership of the two dominant political parties consider schooling appointees prior to their taking up appointments on public speaking under pressure.
This would go a long way in obviating such effusive remarks from government appointees especially since the people would not stop throwing questions at them anyway.
