Opinions of Sunday, 6 July 2008

Columnist: Biakoye, Nana

Akufo-Addo Confesses: 'I Have No Public Service Record'

Where is John Boadu? Where is Mike “Ajasco” Ocquaye? Where is Rita Asobayire?

Where are the NPP clowns who call into radio stations and talk nonsense because they have been paid to do that?

At the IEA Evening Encounter, did the above-mentioned hear Akufo-Addo admit that it is only recently that he started doing public service?

In attempting to answer the question about the nonpayment of wages to teachers, Nanacortics Akufo-Addo, dancing around the issue and saying nothing sensible, said that he does not know how teachers are managing on their meager salary because he got into public service only recently and does not survive on his public service salary.

When Atta Mills got nominated for a national award for his exemplary public service record, John Boadu and co went on an insulting binge and asking Ataa Ayi K4 to give Nanacortics Akufo-Addo the same award.

Now that Nanacortics Akufo-Addo himself has admitted that when it comes to public service, he is nowhere near the learned Professor Atta Mills, what has John Boadu got to say about it?

With the admission by Nanacortics Akufo-Addo that he has a very minuscule public service record, is it not crystal clear that he is not fit to lace the boots of the learned Professor when it comes to public service?

According to Nanacortics Akufo-Addo, but for politics, he will never have worked in the public service for a meager salary.

Professor Mills has worked in the public service all his life and survived on a meager salary.

As lecturer at Legon for over 25 years, as head of IRS for almost 9 years, as Vice President for 4 years, Professor Atta Mills received meager public service salary and survived on it.

As head of IRS, in spite of the meager salary, Professor Mills did not allow his position to corrupt him.

With a person like Akufo-Addo who has admitted that he cannot survive on public service salary, can you imagine what Nanacortics Akufo-Addo would have done with his position, were he head of IRS?

Nanacorics Akufo-Addo has made it abundantly clear that he will need more sources of income if ever he is mistakenly given the mandate to misgovern this dear country of ours.

And if one considers the plethora of allegations doing the rounds that Nanacortics Akufo-Addo smokes wee and sniffs cocaine, can you imagine what he would have done to the nation’s resources if he were head of IRS?

Can you imagine the amount of our money that would have been used to fund his drug addiction?

What it means is that, Nanacortics Akufo-Addo has been a lord onto himself in private service.

If he has some contrived claim to fame, it is in private service.

In public service, he failed as Attorney General and failed as Foreign Minister.

The man has a very short (as short as his height) record in public service and he wants to be given the mandate to serve the public? Torfiakwa!!!

If Ghanaians make a mistake and allow Nanacortics Akufo-Addo to become president of Ghana, we will all die in this country.

For a person who has admitted that he cannot survive on public service salary can you imagine the extent to which Nanacortics Akufo-Addo will go to get extra money to live like and Arabian King if we make a mistake and allow him to misgovern the country?

Can you imagine the extent to which the drug trade will be made to flourish so Nanacortics Akufo-Addo can make lots of money?

Indeed, with his admission that he cannot survive on public service salary, is it any wonder that it is believed that Nanacortics Akufo-Addo “stole” diplomatic passports and gave them to his drug baron friends to facilitate their business and make the cocaine money flow waa waa waa?

The position of president is best managed by people who have been in public service, know the workings of that sector, know how to survive on public sector salary, and it is very clear that Professor Mills is currently the best qualified person to be the next president of Ghana.

Akufo-Addo has told us that he knows next to nothing about the public service and if public servants sit down and allow him to steal the mandate and end up mismanaging the economy and the public sector, it will be their own “jejereje”