The Member of Parliament for Akwapim South, O. B. Amoah says President John Mahama should not have announced that part of his address to ECOWAS heads of state was missing when he addressed the summit in Accra.
He explained that the announcement rather put him in a bad light, as host of the summit and outgoing ECOWAS Chairman.
Ghana’s President and immediate past ECOWAS Chairman, John Dramani Mahama shocked the gathering of heads of West African states and governments at the just ended ECOWAS summit in Accra when he suddenly stopped in the delivery of his speech and announced that some pages of his address were missing.
“Where is my speech…I am missing certain pages in my speech…,” he said, at first to himself, and then to the audience. As Ghana’s President searched for his missing speech, the audience including diplomats from the ECOWAS sub-region and beyond offered a thunderous applause.
Presidents from other West African countries including Liberian President, Ellen Johnsen Sirleaf and out-going Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan seated right behind him on the podium looked unamused as he asked for help which never came.
Akuapem South legislator O.B. Amoah, speaking on Adom TV’s Badwam said what took place would not have happened if President Mahama had gone through the speech in his car before delivering it at the summit.
He also blamed the unfortunate development on President Mahama’s handlers, and charged them to do a better job.
On his part, Managing Editor of the Al-Hajj newspaper, Alhaji Bature Iddrisu said he was not surprised at the development because those around the president have ‘always been a problem.’
He blamed President Mahama for the the incident, saying it was bound to happen since he (President Mahama) ‘has decided to keep half-baked people as communicators at the presidency.’
Alhaji Bature said those responsible must be punished to serve as a deterrent to others.
Source: adomonline.com
