Doe Adjaho Fired!

…For attacking Nduom

A group known as the Professionals Knowledge Network (PKN) has hit back at the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, for describing the 2008 flag-bearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, as a “dismissive” politician, who lacks conviction in his political decision.

The group made up of persons from diverse professional background labelled the Avenor Ave legislator’s unsavoury comment as “boorish” and “ill-conceived” and therefore called on his constituents to reject him in the 2012 election.

“It is understood that his job in Parliament all along has been to be an attack missile thrower with frequent verbal diarrhea. So he has just stayed in character. We only wish those who put him there will exercise better judgment next time,” the group said.

The group intoned that what Mr. Doe Adjaho knows best is to sleep on his job in Parliament rather than effectively discharge his duties.

The group’s response was in a press statement signed by its Secretary, Peter Owusu, and issued in Accra on Saturday.

Dr. Nduom, in an answer to a question posed by a journalist at “How CPP Will Do It” encounter with the media in Kumasi, expressed his disagreement with the ruling by Mr. Adjaho to disallow an amendment proposed by the minority in Parliament that would set aside ten per cent of oil revenue to the Western region.

In his submission, he argued that the proposal did not constitute a charge on the Consolidated Fund but would be a re-distribution of funds already set aside to fund government’s development activities.

Dr. Nduom explained that it is situations like this that make it necessary for the 1992 Constitution to be amended to make it possible for MPs to introduce Private Members’ Bills and be able to compel government to spend money that Parliament as a whole agrees to since the members represent the people.

He added that the demand from the Western region chiefs for ten per cent of the oil revenue can be addressed without resorting to parliamentary maneuvers that restrict MPs right to debate important issues in Parliament.

The two-page statement questioned whether Mr. Adjaho was a propaganda mouthpiece for the ruling NDC or playing the rule of an arbiter in the National Assembly considering the enviable position he occupies.

“We consider it truly amazing that Mr. Adjaho finds it within his purview to bring himself to a level to pass judgment on Dr. Nduom as politician, parliamentarian and as a person.

… Is Mr. Adjaho a propaganda mouthpiece for a political party, or is he supposed to be an arbiter of and decision-maker in a House of Parliament where dissenting voices and opinions co-exist? His statement is shocking and disappointing,” the group reiterated.

According to the statement, it was Dr. Nduom’s participation in government that led to the drastic improvement in the public service – National Identification System, the new Pension Law, the Millennium Challenge money, the Single Spine Salary Scheme and many others.

Along that, the group said if not politics, Mr. Doe Adjaho would have no moral aptitude to go ballistic on Dr. Nduom the way he did, challenging Mr. Doe Adjaho to tell Ghanaians the jobs he has created so far.

“Dr. Nduom reached the highest level in his profession as a Certified Management Consultant and a Partner in a competitive public accounting and management consulting profession in the USA.

He has invested and created over 2000 jobs in this country – jobs that are distributed in each one of the ten regions! He is a family man who conducts his affairs with humility and great care,” the statement added.