Ghana Now Has A Prez Who Is Not A Thief – Kofi Wayo

Maverick politician, ‘Chuck’ Kofi Wayo has once again touted the leadership qualities of President John Evans Atta Mills and reposed confidence in his administration saying Ghanaians have for the first time elected a president who is not a thief.

He, however, adds that though President Mills is the first professor to rule the country, if he [Mills] is unable to transform the country, his professorship would be meaningless.

The United Renaissance Party Founder lamented that though this is the first time he has come across a government which has the interest of the people at heart, there are saboteurs in the Mills’-led NDC Administration who are only interested in travelling.

“…they are all travelling, going here, going there, going there,” he said.

Mr. Wayo wondered why one would prefer to be called a “professor or a doctor”, when in actual fact he or she can do little in providing essential needs like water for the people. He cautioned the president not to delude himself into thinking that those he has placed at the helm of affairs are working to better the lives of the ordinary Ghanaian since most of them are in actual fact making life unbearable for the poor.

“Look at how we traders are suffering; my mother has been a trader before, 99% of us have mothers who are traders. They sell koobi in order to send us to school. Our mothers are suffering and nobody pays them pension,” he said.

Speaking in an interview on PeaceFM News, Mr. Wayo accused the “professors” and “doctors” at the Health Ministry of worsening the health conditions of Ghanaians, cautioning that in so far as “Korle-Bu is for the government and Ghanaians pay VAT”, the affairs of the place has to be managed well.

Commenting on reports that Ghana is to earn $110m from the sale of its first share of crude oil from the Jubilee Field, ‘Chuck’ Wayo, who is a member of the board of the Energy Commission, strongly challenged the claims. He described the energy experts as mere “title holders” who are “ignorant about their duties” and dared the “useless title holders” to a hot debate on TV.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Nana Boakye Asafu-Adjaye, on Wednesday told journalists the amount is revenue expected from the lifting of GNPC’s cargo. The Corporation’s lifting came after three previous consignments had been taken by Tullow Oil and the other partners in the venture.

“You say we have oil, why are we paying seventy thousand cedis for a gallon of petrol? This is because the title holders do not know their work,” he fumed.

He called on President Mills to hunt and sack all those who were “title holders” and were floundering, because according to him “the white man knows our title holders are senseless”.

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