A stalwart of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has taken on the former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, for joining other pensioners to picket at the Ministry of Finance.
Madam Akuffo Friday, February 10, 2023, joined other pensioners at the Finance Ministry to demonstrate their displeasure to the government over their involvement in its debt restructuring.
They simply want an exemption from the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme –an initiative from the government of Ghana to restructure its debt to meet an IMF conditionality for a bailout.
But Mr. Ochere-Darko in a tweet Sunday, February 12 said he is surprised the former Chief Justice is protesting something she has the liberty not to sign on to.
According to him, Madam Akuffo lacks understanding of the basic issues and gravely erred by joining other pensioners to protest at the ministry.
“Whiles I have sympathies for those picketing, I think we should be bold enough to ask them what really is the purpose? Why picket over an offer which you have the liberty not to accept? You are asking to be exempted but from an improved offer programme which is voluntary!
“The former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, may mean well but she erred big time in her basic appreciation of the issues. Rather than asking the Govt for exemption at this late hour, why did she simply not ‘exempt’ herself from exchanging her original bond for the new one!
(6) For a former CJ to take up a noble cause such as she did but at such late hour when all was done and for all that publicity, she owed it to herself and her social standing to have understood the issues far better than what she exhibited last Friday. She is bigger than that,” he tweeted.
(4) Why picket over something you don't like (the improved offer) when you have the right not to sign up? Sorry, but I struggle to get her emotional outburst over exemption! I hope she won't volunteer to picket tomorrow and on the same issues when the time to sign up has expired.
— Gabby Otchere-Darko (@GabbyDarko) February 12, 2023
By Felix Anim-Appau|Onuaonline.com
