NDC disrespects persons with disability – Akomfrah

Communications Director of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Nii Armah Akomfrah has said the widely condemned response of presidential staffer, Sam George to the party’s wheelchair-bound General Secretary’s blunt criticism of the Mahama Administration and the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), shows the NDC disregards persons living with disability.

“NDC in their response to Ivor Greenstreet…are telling us that they have no respect for the disabled,” Akomfrah wrote on his Facebook wall.

George posted on his Facebook wall that: “Ivor Greenstreet apparently needs some elevation to see the Better Ghana.”

His post was in response to Greenstreet’s direct criticism against the Government at the NDC’s national delegates congress held in the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi Saturday.

Greenstreet, a Lawyer said directly to the President and Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur that: “You don’t care”.

“Nobody is feeling your better Ghana”, Greenstreet shouted when he delivered his party’s solidarity message to the NDC at the congress at the Baba Yara Stadium in the Ashanti regional Captial, Kumasi – stronghold of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

In the full glare of the President, Vice President, former President Jerry Rawlings, and thousands of leaders and supporters of the NDC, a defiant Greenstreet said: “…Currently nobody, I mean nobody is feeling your better Ghana.”

“Continuous ‘dumsor dumsor,’ corruption from top to bottom, left right inside out, and all the challenges you are facing [are] suffocating the Ghanaian people.”

He added: “We would have thought that perhaps you may have used an occasion like this to discuss policies, programmes and solutions to all the difficulties we are facing as a nation, but no, you chose today to share your Christmas gifts with each other.”

“Ghanaians are not happy at all. This ‘bronya’ is dry. Too too dry,” he told the President, adding: “The most painful thing of all is that you don’t care.”

“NDC continue, we are watching you, Ghana is watching you, do what you want to do, we also know what we’ll come and do…make sure you’ll elect executives who will be able to steer your parties affairs when you are in opposition. Boys abr3.”

Mr George’s riposte has been widely condemned on social media.