A group calling itself concerned
Ghanaians in the United Kingdom want President John Mahama to apologize
to them over some comments he allegedly made during a visit to the
country.
The Public Affairs Director of the group, Nana Ansah Obofour on the Eye Witness News said
President Mahama during an interaction with the Ghanaian community in
the UK told them that “Ghana’s economy was doing very well, there are
jobs, infrastructure development, there are lights there are water and
there is nothing which shows that the economy is bad.”
He said the president further advised
them that “when they [relatives] call us [from Ghana] and they tell us
that the economy is bad they want to dupe us.”
The
comment according to Obofour is “offensive” and “insulting” because the
president painted a wrong picture of the economy to them, hence the
need to apologize.
He questioned why the president said
that saying “even if at all if I support my relative back home in Ghana
is it the concern of the president?”
Meanwhile, the group on Thursday demonstrate against President Mahama in London over what they call worsening economic conditions in Ghana.
In a related development about twelve labour unions in Ghana have declared an indefinite strike action to protest government’s failure to pay public service workers their tier two pension funds into a private account.
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