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Managing Editor of the Gye Nyame Concord newspaper, Alfred Ogbamey, has attributed the National Security Advisor�s �get out of the country� comment to striking workers to his lack of communication skills. �It shows his ineptness in communication skills and this is not the first time - he was not communicating; he was more or less giving orders,� Ogbamey said. Alfred opined that Brigadier General Nunoo-Mensah�s statement would have been perfect if he had not concluded in a commanding tone asking workers to �get out, get out get out�. He said on �Kokrokoo� that the fact that the National Security Advisor was not able to control himself on the issue of agitations on the labour front also shows his lack of leadership skills. According to him, it is "difficult to justify some aspect of his speech. It is his conclusion that sparked the controversy and that was because his communication should have been more accommodating and not giving command like that of the military� It also shows deficiency in his leadership skills because when you are speaking as the national security advisor, you are supposed to lead and give good counsel; speak based on facts and not speculate� he is not more Ghanaian than anybody to be ordering people about.� The National Security Advisor has been the focus of most news headlines after he asked Ghanaian workers to �get out� of the country if they could no longer cope with conditions in the country. Speaking at the inauguration of a nine-unit classroom block at the O�Reilly Senior High School Saturday, he stated that the government should no longer tolerate the phenomenon of workers laying down their tools every now and then. He said the many strikes on the labour front showed high levels of indiscipline in the country and so if workers are not willing to sacrifice, they should take their �passports and get out of this country, and don�t destroy the country for us. If you can�t sacrifice like what some of us have done, then get out. If the Kitchen is too hot for you, get out.�