Johnson Asiedu Nketia , General Secretary for the NDC
The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia has finally explained why he got his nickname General Mosquito from politician especially; the New Patriotic Party (NPP) calls him General Mosquito.
According to him, the name was given to him by his political opponents the National Patriotic Party after he single-handedly opposed the appointment of an NPP member as a minister under the government of His Excellency the former president John Agyekum Kufour.
Speaking on OTEC FM’s afternoon political show dubbed, ‘Dwabrem’ Mr Asiedu Nkatiah on Friday August 19, 2022 ’explained that, during the administration of President John Agyekum Kuffuor, President Kuffuor wanted to appoint MP for Mim in the Brong Ahafo Region at the time for Deputy Minister for Forestry but he knew the man had been sacked from Mim timbers where he used to work for theft.
He said he rebelled against the appointment because he can’t sit for someone who is not fit to be a minister to be appointed even though his actions attracted many insults and rejection even from his party members he never withdrew his objections until the appointment was rejected.
‘General Mosquito
He detailed that he persevered in his quest to have the ministerial nominee rejected despite overwhelming opposition from his other colleague MPs at the time.
Due to this, Asiedu Nketia mentioned that the NPP side of the House gave him the nickname ‘General Mosquito’ – the nick name of a rebel leader in war-time Sierra Leone.
“ He told the Programm’s host Dr Cash that, it’s a long story but to summarize it, I put up a fight in Parliament to get someone I considered not to be fit to become a minister under President Kufuor and I succeeded in spite of all the insults and everything.
“All the MPs abandoning me but I stayed on course and got him disqualified and so the NPP then said that I was operating like the then rebel leader in Sierra Leone, that I have taken a rebellious position against all the members of Parliament and succeeded so I was behaving like General Mosquito of Sierra Leone, “he revealed.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com/
