Kofi Bentil has come under fire from Sammy Gyamfi, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) national communications officer, for urging Ghanaians to lend a sympathetic ear to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the vice president and flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party.
In a written piece, Kofi Bentil, Vice President of IMANI Africa, urged Ghanaians to listen to the NPP flagbearer when he gave a public lecture on February 7.
Sammy Gyamfi claimed in a statement that during Dr. Bawumia’s numerous lectures and forums in 2016, Ghanaians gave him a fair hearing.
The vice president, who chairs the Economic Management Team, must act rather than just talk in order to boost the economy, according to the NDC Communications Officer.
“To put it mildly, when Bawumia gave numerous lectures and fora in 2016 to advance pretentious but misleading economic rhetoric, Ghanaians heard him quite a bit.”
“In each of those talks, Bawumia identified the economic problems facing Ghana and then offered rhetorical solutions. Ghanaians trusted Bawumia to oversee the country’s economy because they were so taken aback by his “charm” and “wizardry.” Do I need to remind you that Bawumia, as the head of the Economic Management Team, has overseen the complete collapse of the economy? What is needed from him is action, not words. This is a a cliché, and you,, of all people,, ought to be aware of it.
Read Sammy Gyamfi’s statement below.
SAMMY ROASTS KOFI BENTIL OVER HIS DEFENSE OF BAWUMIA:
Dear Kofi Bentil,
I just read your write-up calling on Ghanaians to give Bawumia a hearing ahead of his needless and useless lecture, scheduled for February 7th.
For your information, Ghanaians gave Bawumia ample hearing in 2016, when he held countless lectures and fora to propound lofty but deceptive economic rhetoric.
At each of those lectures, Bawumia diagnosed the challenges of Ghana’s economy and proceeded to fix our problems rhetorically. Ghanaians were so much in awe of Bawumia’s “charm” and “wizardry” that they trusted him to manage Ghana’s economy.
I need to remind you that at a time when Bawumia, as chairman of the Economic Management Team, has supervised the total destruction of the economy, what is required of him is action and not lectures. This is true, and you and all people should know that.
As for your claim that Bawumia has only been an advisor to the failed Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government, even President Akufo-Addo and Bawumia himself will disagree with you on that.
If that were so, why do you and other NPP surrogates continue to give Bawumia credit for the Agenda 111 initiative, the drone delivery system, and the government’s so-called digitalization initiatives, among others?
Can you tell us why President Akufo-Addo, in his 2018 SONA, lauded Bawumia’s “stellar leadership” of the Economic Management Team and credited him for what he described as positive economic results at the time?
If the logic of your argument is to be accepted, then on what basis did Bawumia, in opposition, pose 170 questions to then Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur?
What do you take Ghanaians for, Mr. Bentil? Some zombies?
It is a fact that your new boss, Bawumia, is responsible for the unprecedented economic mess Ghanaians are currently faced with. No amount of political subterfuge can change this fact.
Accept this truth and spare yourself the ordeal of trying to whitewash a failed and discredited economic messiah who has proven to be hopelessly empty and pathetically dishonest.
This agenda of yours is dead on arrival (“yaamutu”); try another one, please.
