Twum-Boafo Cuts Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey To Size

By Cecil Mensah

Mr. Kojo Twum-Boafo, has hit hard at the National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey saying he lacks the moral grounds to call for his dismissal as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Free Zones Board (FZB).

This, he said, is because Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey did not call for the dismissal of the NPP’s Director of Communication, Nana Akomea, who publicly referred to the Deputy Minister of Information, James Agyenim-Boateng, as a “stupid fool” on live television-radio.

The NPP National Chairman, the outspoken FZB boss agued, also lacked the moral authority to call for his dismissal from office after allowing NPP followers to vilify the late President John Mills, to death.

Mr. Twum-Boafo, in an exclusive interview with The Herald, last week, said both Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey and his flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo should have led by example by relinquishing Nana Akomea of his post as their Director of Communications, “because he who demands equity must come with clean hands.”

The Free Zones boss was reacting to a press conference held by the leadership of the NPP, where they lampooned him (Twum-Boafo) for describing the leadership of the NPP, on the Accra-based Asempa FM as a” bunch of ridiculous buccaneers” parading themselves as politicians.

The NPP seems to have lots of difficulty with the Free Zones boss. Sometime last year, some elements claimed that Mr. Twum-Boafo, was once caught by his father sleeping with his stepmother, and he assaulted the old man when he complained about the incident.

The claims according to Mr. Twum-Boafo, are false since he has never known any other woman in his father’s life apart from his biological mother, who still lives with his father as his wife.

He questioned why the NPP was so peeved by his choice of words, and called on the NPP to look out for the English meaning of buccaneers and stop the unnecessary noise they were making.

Mr. Twum-Boafo, warned that if the leadership of the NPP would not give the family of the late President Mills any respect then they should not demand any respect from the supporters of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

”The NPP would not get away this time. The NDC has taken a fearsome position for far too long’’ he posited.

Mr. Twum-Boafo, also took issues with the Civil Society Organization (CSO’s), who are calling on politicians to eschew insults in the run-up to the December 7 polls, ‘‘when the late President was looking for a few brave men to defend him from the verbal claws of the NPP nobody stood in his defense.”

He pledged to be ruthless with the NPP anytime they attempt to denigrate the NDC and its leaders through some of its apologists.

On the issues of corruption, Mr. Twum-Boafo, asked Mr. Obestebtsebi-Lamptey to come with clean hands because “a donkey by any other name is a still a donkey”, adding that in spite of the so-called Supreme Court ruling in his (Jake) favour, it does not take away the fact that he pilfered a public bungalow that was allocated to him by the Kufour regime.