146 Demonstrators cannot rock Accra – Twum Boafo

Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Free Zones Board, Kwadwo Twum Boafo, says the number of people who embarked on the “Occupy the Flag Staff House Demonstration” was too few to be described as having “Rocked Accra,” adding that these are “false headlines”.

In an interview with Alhassan Suhuyini, Mr. Twum Boafo expressed disappointment in some state-owned media for carrying such “misleading” headlines.

On Republic Day, July 1, 2014, as the country marked its 54th anniversary of weaning itself from British colonial rule, a group of citizens embarked on a demonstration dubbed “Occupy the Flagstaff House “to express their displeasure at the current hardship in the country.

The President, John Dramani Mahama, has since indicated that he shares their concern and has promised that things will change adding that, “together we will build the sort of country that we will be proud to hand down to our children and their children.”

Mr Twum Boafo said the shooting of invectives and the description of government appointees as dimwits does not make sense.

He said the government of President John Mahama is working and has invested a lot into energy and the road sector.

He cited the Tetteh Quarshie, King Tackie Tawiah and Sankara overpass as some of the major road works the NDC government has done.

He said one of the banes of the country, the Single Spine Salary Pay Policy, was initiated by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

“You create the problem and your professionals and middle class come out to say it is somehow Mahama’s fault," he stated.

He says it is incumbent on the government to stand up to the calling that the Ghanaian has given it to provide betterment for the citizenry of this country.

“If we do that, then 146 people cannot congregate and attempt to break a Police cordon, go and sit at Afrikiko and eat, sashimi, Sushi, Thai Fried rice and drink Saki, only to come and tell us they are going through hardship,” he lamented.