Ace journalist Kwesi Pratt Junior has advised Minority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu to “shut up” if he has nothing serious to say about the state of the economy.

According to him, the attempt by the minority leader to question the stands of the Committee for Joint Action (CJA) in the raging debate over fuel prices is dishonest and hypocritical.

The Minority at a press conference last week wondered why the pressure group, which the Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper is a member, is not protesting the current price of fuel on the local market as it did under former President John Kufuor, even as the price of the product on the international market suggests that the Mahama administration can further reduce it locally.

Commenting on the issue on Radio Gold’s ‘Alhaji and Alhaji’, however, Pratt said the minority’s call is misplaced.

“I want to advise honourable Kyei Mensah Bonsu that if he has nothing to say, he should just keep his mouth shut rather than turning himself into a mountain of ridicule.

“I don’t know where this gentleman is coming from. There has been no new policy on petroleum pricing. The policy on petroleum pricing in 1986 is still intact.

“It is the same policy which was implemented by the Rawlings administration, the Kufuor administration, the Mills administration and also being implemented by the Mahama administration.

“So this attempt to sound holier than everybody else, is at best , dishonest and hypocritical,” he fumed.