Former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo and the Dormaahene, Osagyefo Oseadeyo Agyemang Badu II, have been challenged by private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu to criticize the Mahama administration in the same manner that they assailed the Akufo-Addo administration.
According to Kpebu, if the Mahama administration is not criticized, critics will be able to accuse them of doing nothing more than politics when the NPP was in power.
On Saturday, August 23, Martin Kpebu made these statements on TV3.
“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.” he said.
Recall that Sophia Akuffo, who was recently nominated to the Council of State by President John Dramani Mahama, compared the introduction of the Domestic Debt Exchange Program (DDEP) by the previous Akufo-Addo administration to the days of military dictatorships.
She voiced her worries, saying that the administration was attempting to make changes without getting the right knowledge or approval. That, she believed, was wrong and not to be tolerated under 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.
Osagyefo Oseadeyo Agyemang Badu II, the Dormaahene, however, talked “strongly” against the Akufo-Addo government.
Among them was when he said that Ghanaians wanted Nana Akufo-Addo to abandon the plan to build a National Cathedral in fulfillment of his pledge to God.
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He claimed that while the commitment to God is good, the time is unsuitable given the people’s deteriorating economic circumstances, particularly given that state resources are the primary source of funding.
“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”.
