One of Ghana’s former first ladies, Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings, says government business in the country has ground to a halt, noting officials are now more focused on campaigning than their work.
She said instead of the officials focusing on their job to ensure government business runs effectively, they are out there campaigning for the John Mahama-led government ahead of this year’s December 7 general elections According to Mrs Agyemang-Rawlings who is the presidential nominee for the National Democratic Party, the John Mahama-led government is abusing its incumbency.
“The government is taking advantage of its position. It’s usually normal but is really stretching it.
It doesn’t look good because the country is going through difficulties and it will be good to see that some people in the government working to keep the country running and then some are campaigning, not everybody out there,” she said.
Speaking on TV3’s News 360 on Monday at the station’s unveiling of its ultramodern, multipurpose television studio in Accra, Mrs Agyemang-Rawlings added: “It looks like government business is at a halt.
The unrivalled studio in Ghana Mrs Agyemang Rawlings who is currently challenging her disqualification from contesting in the presidential election, underscored the need to ensure a balanced campaign, saying “I think that there should be some fairness.
At the moment there’s not.” She also urged media practitioners to ensure balanced reportage for each of the political parties contesting in the elections “so that each party will feel a part of the democratic dispensation that is going”.
The former first lady also said it is important for all to use temperate language in the media and on political campaign platforms, especially so because young people may be listening.
“You can make the same argument and come out with your dissatisfaction about whatever it is and let people understand you without using foul language,” she noted. Meanwhile, she has described TV3’s new studio, christened: News Hub, as being “professional and very impressive”.
The studio is the first of its kind in the country and is set to give viewers a refreshing look and feel of modern news delivery with international standards.
Source: 3news.com
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THEY SAY SILENCE IS GOLDEN, MAA.... BUT SOMETIMES YOURS COULD NOT BE VALUED AS SUCH..YOUR STYLE OF OPPOSITION IS AS REPUGNANT AND PUNGENT AS A CESPIT LATRINE DUG OUT. SINCE WHEN DID YOU BECOME THE CHIEF OF STAFF, TO BE PRIVY TO THE WORK DETAILS OF STATE OFFICIALS?? YOU NEVER MADE SENSE IN ANY PLATFORM TO CRITICIZE THIS GOVERNMENT... THOSE OFFICIALS COULD BE ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL SO LONG AS IT DOES NOT FLOUT THE CONSTITUTION OF GHANA, BESIDES THIS IS A SEASON WHEN ALL POLITICIANS GET ACTIVE IN ORDER TO BE VOTED INTO POWER OR BE RETAINED IN POWER, IF YOU WERE IN THEIR SHOES, AS YOU HAVE BEEN BEFORE, WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE???? IF YOU SEEK EQUITY, YOU BETTER COME WITH CLEAN HANDS. BECAUSE THE VERY PEOPLE YOU ACCUSE TODAY WERE THE ONES THAT STOOD BY YOU IN TIMES OF YOUR VISSISITUDES
***barred word*** old bitchhh.
This woman has no shame. What happened when her husband was in Office. Didn't the state officials do the same? What type of hypocrisy is this? Why is she so bitter. She thinks she can compare herself to women like Hillary Clinton? They have held national political positions before and they know what politics is about. Its not the 31 December Women's Movement NGO that Nana Konadu headed. If she thinks Ghanaians will vote for her to be president, then she is day dreaming. She should give us a break.