LET’S BURY OUR DIFFERENCE
…and move the country forward
…and move the country forward
Posted: The Chronicle Wednesday, December 7, 2000
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
Unfolding events across the length and breadth of the country after the just-ended Presidential elections has compelled one of the respected opinion leaders in the country, Dr. Kofi Agyekum popularly referred to as Opanin Agyekum to make a passionate appeal to Ghanaians.
Whilst admitting that he does not have any evidence whatsoever to back claims being made by both the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) of unfair treatment of its members in their strongholds, he noted that it would be proper for each and every Ghanaian to bury their individual and collective differences for the country to move forward irrespective of which party is in power.
He thus stressed the need for the alleged humiliations and taunting that has characterised the aftermath of the elections to cease in order not to further inflame passions.
Opanin Agyekum who happens to be a senior lecturer at the linguistics department of the University of Ghana, Legon made this appeal in an exclusive interview with The Chronicle yesterday.
He therefore appealed to all Ghanaians to remain calm.
“Now that we have declared one of the candidates as President, we must all rally behind him for the development of the country because there is nothing that can change it”, he emphasised.
The learned fellow also had course to caution the media especially the radio stations against taking advantage of the situation to make comments and statements which has the tendency of degenerating into controversies and chaos. “For any time that you utter something, even a single sentence. Take that there are people who can analyse your sentence better than you yourself can do and if you are able to do that I will warn against inflammatory statements especially those that bother on ethnicity and tribalism, we should be moving forward”, he advised.
To the newspapers, the man whose virtues had earned him a place in the National Peace Council (NPC) said “it better to remain neutral newspaper than to be too partisan, when you do that you loss your objectivity.”
Now that the elections
“Then peoples attitude towards work should remain as steadfast as possible irrespective of whether your party is in power or not”, he said, stressing “even if your party is in power and you don’t have any profession and you don’t work, you’ll go hungry.”
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
Unfolding events across the length and breadth of the country after the just-ended Presidential elections has compelled one of the respected opinion leaders in the country, Dr. Kofi Agyekum popularly referred to as Opanin Agyekum to make a passionate appeal to Ghanaians.
Whilst admitting that he does not have any evidence whatsoever to back claims being made by both the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) of unfair treatment of its members in their strongholds, he noted that it would be proper for each and every Ghanaian to bury their individual and collective differences for the country to move forward irrespective of which party is in power.
He thus stressed the need for the alleged humiliations and taunting that has characterised the aftermath of the elections to cease in order not to further inflame passions.
Opanin Agyekum who happens to be a senior lecturer at the linguistics department of the University of Ghana, Legon made this appeal in an exclusive interview with The Chronicle yesterday.
He therefore appealed to all Ghanaians to remain calm.
“Now that we have declared one of the candidates as President, we must all rally behind him for the development of the country because there is nothing that can change it”, he emphasised.
The learned fellow also had course to caution the media especially the radio stations against taking advantage of the situation to make comments and statements which has the tendency of degenerating into controversies and chaos. “For any time that you utter something, even a single sentence. Take that there are people who can analyse your sentence better than you yourself can do and if you are able to do that I will warn against inflammatory statements especially those that bother on ethnicity and tribalism, we should be moving forward”, he advised.
To the newspapers, the man whose virtues had earned him a place in the National Peace Council (NPC) said “it better to remain neutral newspaper than to be too partisan, when you do that you loss your objectivity.”
Now that the elections
“Then peoples attitude towards work should remain as steadfast as possible irrespective of whether your party is in power or not”, he said, stressing “even if your party is in power and you don’t have any profession and you don’t work, you’ll go hungry.”
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