[ 2017-01-30 ]

Ms Otiko Djaba made very critical comments about the Ex President during her vetting

Mahama was a 'naked emperor' - Otiko
Gender, Children and Social Protection
Minister-designate Ms Otiko Afisa Djaba, has said
former president John Dramani Mahama was like an
“emperor without clothes” during his term of
office.

According to her, several Ghanaians, especially
those from Northern Ghana, felt the severe
hardship under President Mahama although the
president could have alleviated their plight.

Her comment follows a call on her, during her
vetting, by Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu to
withdraw those words and apologise to the former
president.

Speaking before the Appointments Committee on
Monday, January 30, she said: “People have died
for the country and we at this time must work and
continue from where they left off, and, so, for me
the president has been like Caesar’s wife and
the issue of SADA affected me personally and the
people of the North.”

“If you look at the results, it is indicative of
how the people of the North felt. It is not an
excuse to say that other people let him down
because he is the president. The president of
Mother Ghana, he was the president, and at times I
felt he was the emperor without clothes and there
was the need to draw his attention to it. It was
not just political talk; governance affects the
lives of all of us.

“Ghana is going to be 60 on the 6th of March, we
must raise the bar. Governance affects people, it
affects the lives of poor people, and when you are
president of the country you have to be
responsible for the lives of those people and if
the incidence of poverty is the highest in the
Northern Region, the president who comes from the
North failed us in that respect. It will be very
difficult to withdraw those statements.”

Source - classfmonline.com

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