Panelists at the studios of TV3 on Saturday, November 02, 2024, during the station’s weekend current affairs show, The KeyPoints, were overwhelmed by the actions of one of their colleagues.
They were presented with what has been termed ‘evidence of the state of the economy’ when one of the panelists brought food items to the studios.
Private legal practitioner, Martin Luther Kpebu, during a discussion on the impasse between the legislature and the judiciary, in a passing comment on a submission by one of the panelists, stated how poor Ghana’s economy has become.
According to him, basic foodstuffs which hitherto could be afforded by the average citizen now costs so much such that people cannot afford.
He began with a popular fruit juice —kalypo –which then candidate Akufo-Addo, in 2016, sipped to debunk what he termed as the wrong perception that people had about him being a bourgeois.
He drank Kalypo to let Ghanaians know his life has not and will not be as ostentatious as people were misconstruing. However, Martin Kpebu presented one to the studio saying the price has shot up astronomically due to the mismanagement of the economy.
The renowned lawyer also pulled from his luggage a ball of kenkey and fried fish. He said the kenkey cost him GHC7.00, something that was sold for GHC1.00 at the time Akufo-Addo took over as President.
When some of the panelists drew his attention to the fact that the discussion was about the judiciary and the legislature, he established that every living being needs food to survive before commenting on any other thing, and the cost of living was an issue which could never be out of place in any discussion.
This makes it the second time the legal mogul has presented food items to the studio after presenting a tuber of yam earlier this year.
Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Ransford Edward Van Gyampo, who could not hold his laughter amid the surprise, held the fish on his behalf for display as he made his case on the economy.
Martin Kpebu shows a tuber of yam on live TV to support his analysis on cost of living crisis
