"I Would Slap Ursula Owusu" - NCCE man

The outgoing Volta Regional Director of National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE), Fidellis S.K. Attoh, has descended heavily on Ms. Ursula Owusu, a staunch member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), describing her as “too arrogant and without manners.”

Mr. Attoh, who was speaking at the Volta regional launch of the 11th Constitutional Week celebration at Akome, on the theme “The State of Democracy in Ghana, 2011,” said if the likes of Ursula Owusu are always invited to television stations as panelists just to rain insults on one another at the full glare of viewers, then “what are they teaching viewers who are sometimes children?”

“If I were at Metro TV with her, I would have slapped her,” he stated, adding that he cannot contain “the rubbish and the high level of arrogance” from her, explaining that people like Ursula Owusu have nothing good to offer Ghanaians on programmes they feature on.

Mr. Attoh, who was touching on the thematic areas of the topic “Performance of the media;; the judicial and the justice system; operations of political parties and the broad spectrum of corruption,” accused the media of raising false alarms by misreporting facts and therefore inciting the public against one another.

On the judiciary, Mr. Attoh alleged that the judiciary and the police have been conniving behind the scene to determine and judge cases before coming to court, adding that “the highest bidder” is always given justice.

He made reference to the murder case of Ya-na Yakubu Andani II, who, according to him, “was murdered in cold blood but the court says the Ya-Na was not killed and went ahead to free the people behind the heinous crime.”