Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has urged former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo and the Dormaahene, Osagyefo Oseadeyo Agyemang Badu II, to also criticise the Mahama administration the same way they did against the Akufo-Addo government.
Kpebu expresses the view that failure to criticise the Mahama administration will empower critics who will accuse them of just engaging in mere politics when the NPP was in office.
Martin Kpebu said in his signature greetings on the KeyPoints on TV3 Saturday, August 23, ” I want to greet Sophia Akuffo the Yaa Asantweaa. We will be forever grateful for the way she spoke out. Speak out as well under this administration, and the Dormahene as well.”
It is recalled Sophia Akuffo, who has now been appointed a member of the Council of State by President John Dramani Mahama, likened the previous Akufo-Addo government’s announcement of the Domestic Debt Exchange Program (DDEP) to the era of military regimes.
She expressed her concern, stating that the government sought to make changes without proper understanding or consent.
In her estimation, that was improper and should not be countenanced in the Fourth Republic.
“You contracted me, that in return for buying your bonds, these are what I am expecting. Now you want to change my expectations for whatever reasons, and you don’t do that by decree. It was more like the days where you wake up in the morning and by decree, something has happened in Ghana,” Madam Akuffo remarked.
She went on to draw parallels to the past, saying, “All of a sudden, no more 50 cedi notes or all of a sudden from Saturday, there is a new currency but the new currency is not in circulation yet. But Saturday, Monday what you have is no longer money, decree. What kind of life is that?”
The Dormaahene, Osagyefo Oseadeyo Agyemang Badu II, also spoke vehemently against the Akufo-Addo administration.
For instance, he said that Ghanaians wanted Mr Nana Akufo-Addo, to do away with the idea of honoring his promise to God with a National Cathedral.
Though he said the promise to God is good, the worsening economic situation of the people makes the timing inappropriate, especially when state resources are the major source of funding.
“He (Akufo-Addo) brought the National Cathedral. His name can’t be taken away from it. But we beg him, the economic situation is such that he should not use our resources to complete it”, he told the President through the Regional Minister.
Dormaahene added, “The President should rather work hard to improve the economic fortunes of the country, and if he is unable to finish it, another person will do that in his name”.
