Dep. Agric Minister must resign – Minority
The minority in parliament is demanding the immediate resignation of Deputy Agric Minister, Hon. William Quaitoo from his position as as Deputy Minister of State and Member of Parliament over what they describe as his denigrating and profuse insults on the people of the three Northern Regions of Ghana.
”Should he fail to quit these offices voluntarily and now, we call on the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, to fire him immediately as a mark of his revulsion against this unprovoked and reckless ethnocentric bigotry against the entire people of the three Northern Regions”, the statement said.
The Deputy Minister of Agriculture is reported to have stated In an interview with Starr FM an Accra based FM station last Thursday that, the people of the three Northern Regions are unreasonable and by the virtue of their unreasonableness, are not amenable to engagement in decent and reasonable discourse.
The Deputy Minister who said he was speaking from evidence of his 27 years sojourn In the North, went further to indict the people of the three Northern Regions as having a penchant for concocting and peddling falsehood, deliberate deceit and engaging in fraudulent activities to rip off the nation or steal state resources.
But the minority in a statement, described his comments as unjustifiable and unacceptable to label the entire people of the three Northern Regions who he says he has lived with for 27 years, as unreasonable people, accomplished and persistent liars, people with a high propensity for perpetrating fraud, people who all the time use these fraudulent acts to steal money from the state.
”We think that this is grossly inadequate, insincere, hypocritical, an afterthought and therefore not deep enough to assuage the profound pain and huge damage done to the good image, integrity and respect of the people of the three Northern Regions”, the statement said.
The minority called on majority to join them in unconditionally and unreservedly condemning what they described as crass ethnic bigotry exhibited by Hon. Quaitoo.
”Additionally, we urge all decent minded Ghanaians who cherish the unity, peace, order, stability and progress of our nation, to join us demand the immediate resignation of Hon. Quaitoo as Deputy Minister of State and Member of Parliament”, the added.
The minority has therefore promised to take the matter serious and will demand and take all legitimate, legal and appropriate measures to bring the originator of this offensive, mischievous and divisive statement to order in the supreme national interest.
Source: otecfmghana.com
