Running mate for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has urged political elites to stop inciting the public just because they are not in leadership.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) in its press conferences have mentioned that Ghana may become like Kenya where Gen Z protesters went wild leading to some deaths among others in protests against the Finance Bill.

At the recent press conference held to complain about the appointment of Supreme Court Judges, the NDC indicated that Ghana will become like Kenya if the President does not desist from his continuous appointment of NPP sympathizers onto the Bench.

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa who has been fighting against what he describes as state capture also mentioned that Ghana may resort to the Gen Z protest approach used by Kenyans if government and its appointees do not end the state capture.

But addressing this issue in Parliament, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh indicated that it is unfair for political elites to incite the people just because they are not in leadership.

He does not kick against protests but rather, the fact that people who are urging the poor to protest on the streets are people who are very comfortable in life.

“Because you are not in leadership, the country must burn? That is the problem we are seeing. When the Minority leader talks about race among us political elites what he really meant is the race to the bottom. You did this to me and I come and I do worse forgetting that your time is for a fixed period. Some can’t tolerate hardship. The instantaneous gratification that they must always be in power is what leads some of them to agitate not that they don’t know the truth. The lessons of Kenya have been lived in Ghana before.

Let us vow as leaders that we have to collaborate and compromise and be patient to wait for your time. God gave us two things in this country, he gave us a lot of human resources and a lot of natural resources but for the benefit of the country, we have to add value to both. The value addition to human resources is through education and skill training. The value addition to natural resources is translating it into finished products.

Let us team ourselves together so that any Ghanaian who goes to the street to agitate should agitate for something good hopefully but not being provoked or egged on by people who are very very comfortable. When there is an insurrection in the country the people who suffer are the poor. We shouldn’t sit and think it will not come to us, it will come to us and we have to understand that in this country never again will someone wake up at 4 am and announce on the airwaves that he has taken over because it has never taken us anywhere.

...The GDP of the country at a certain time of a certain coup in Ghana was worse off. The only time that we have had consistent economic growth maybe not at the pace we all want is between 92 and currently,” he said.