The Minister of Trade and the President’s Special Initiatives, Joseph Baidoo-Ansah last week did the most dishonourable act by enacting the barbaric Ghanaian political history where intolerance became so legendary.
Joe Baidoo Ansah interrupted a live Metro TV programme where the Convention People’s Party’s spokesperson on Finance and Economics, Prof. Nii Moi Thompson and others were discussing the recently held UNCTAD programme in Accra.
The Minister was at his vituperative best, hurling insults on the CPP spokesman for what Joe Baidoo Ansah said was a deliberate act on the part of the CPP man to draw local politics into an otherwise global UNCTAD programme. .
We had lived through such dangerous period in the past and we thought such official arrogance would have been a thing of the past.
Joe Baidoo-Ansah’s posturing clearly demonstrates that there are still some demagogues in Ghanaian politics who clearly we need to ostracize from our body-politic.
The Minister should have known that Prof. Nii MoiThompson was invited both as a policy analyst and the CPP Spokesperson on Economics and Finance.
Indeed Professor Thompson was invited based on his expertise and the fact that he is Spokesman for a formidable political party in the country.
But who is that Minister to tell the CPP person on what he should do and say at the said meeting? Prof. Nii Moi Thompson has shown through his excellent delivery on economic matters that he is indeed an institution when it comes to such matters.
And that perhaps explains why almost every station fights for his voice on economic issues and meetings on their programmes.
Joe Baidoo-Ansah cannot teach Metro TV on the direction that the station should take on issues like who speaks on their station. His party has in the past been at the forefront of moving for independence for the media and therefore we find Baidoo-Ansah’s action very dishonourable to say the least.
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