Former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has recently spoken on the usage of tribal insults in front-line politics.
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia’s description by Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), as a disgrace to northerners has drawn strong criticism, particularly from the opposition.
Speaking on the matter, Nana Akomea, a prominent figure in the Bawumia for President 2024 campaign, denounced Kwetey’s speech and called it inappropriate, particularly in light of the fact that a prominent NDC member had called his party’s nominee in 2015 a shame.
He was alluding to Amidu’s radio interview attack on Mahama in November 2015.
But, Amidu objects to what he claims is Akomea’s purposeful exploitation of his opinions on Mahama as a response to Kwetey, since he ignores the circumstances surrounding the aforementioned remarks in 2015.
He called Akomea a hypocrite, pointing out that he remained silent in the face of similar insults from an NPP MP.
“When Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, the NPP Member of Parliament, an Ashanti, pejoratively referred to me using a colonial Akan insult on northerners as ‘Konongo Kaya’ on Friday, 19 August 2022, the tribal undertones were not lost upon many northerners generally and reasonable patriotic Ghanaians.
“Almighty Nana Akomea endorsed the tribal insult by his NPP party colleague with his eerie silence.
“It does appear to me to be the height of hypocrisy that when Fiifi Kwetey uses a similar pejorative insult on the person Nana Akomea is hoping to win the 2024 presidential election and appoint him to a juicy position, his reposit is to refer to a senior northerner warning his junior brother of the consequences of his conduct on the north,” the part of his February 22 article stated.
Amidu also issued a warning to the NDC and NPP, asking them to refrain from using him as a convenient quote in the forthcoming election season.
