Posted: Daily Guide |Monday, 12 July 2010
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
Friends of Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings (FONKAR) are at it again; this time round, hurling insults at two young deputy Ministers, virtually describing them as stupid.
At the receiving end of these insults are the deputy Ministers of Information, James Agyenim-Boateng and that of Environment, Science and Technology, Edward Omane-Boamah, for ostensibly opening their mouths too wide against former First Lady Nana Konadu, who appears to be nursing a presidential ambition.
The two deputy ministers, who were said to be displaying “flowery stupidity, mental incompetence and unbridled arrogance,” by FONKAR, were said to have commented on the reason why the former first couple continued to stay apart after their official residence at Ridge gutted fire.
In a statement signed by Ransford Vanni-Amoah and Dela Coffie, founder and communications director respectively, on behalf of the group, they expressed reservation about comments made by the two deputy Ministers about the accommodation issue of the former first family which has become an issue for public discussion since Nana Konadu said she and her husband had been compelled by circumstances to look for a place to rent.
The group said it took exception to the reckless and cold-hearted comments by the Minister (s) that the Rawlingses had rejected all provisional accommodation offered them by government, since according to them, Agyenim-Boateng lied that Mr. Rawlings liked the facility but his wife and their idol rejected it.
That, they said, was because the fact on the ground did not support “such reckless assertion and we are unnerved by the Minister’s shallow-mindedness and his attempt to turn the Rawlingses against each other.”
“Just as we thought that Herbert Mensah, the man in the centre of the negotiation, has clarified the issue, Omane Boamah, deputy Minister of Science and Technology, reiterated the earlier position by James Agyenim-Boateng on Joy FM’s Newsfile programme on Saturday 10th July 2010,” the statement said .
FONKAR therefore wonders why “responsible Ministers of state will display such flowery stupidity, mental incompetence and unbridled arrogance in this sensitive issue”, saying, “To suggest that Mrs. Rawlings rejected the facility on the grounds of preference rather than security considerations is ridiculous, unfounded and deplorable stunt.”
The group has therefore asked the Chief of Staff, Henry Martey Newmann, to come clear on the issue to set the records straight since it is of the conviction that what has been put in public domain is nothing but a deliberate lie, because “we are amazed at the level of extreme obsession by people in government to run down the Rawlingses and will not sit by and allow ‘strangers’ in the NDC to destroy what has been built for well over 19 years.”
The leadership of FONKAR said it was compelled to issue this statement because it had the conviction that “the display of unmatched folly by James Agyenim-Boateng, Omane Boamah and their likes, by spewing out nonsense, is becoming unbecoming.”
Rather than tolerate plurality, they noted with emphasis that “the President and his advisors have continued to use their position as a platform to engage in behaviors that are untypical of the NDC.”
The group has therefore asked President Mills to show leadership and get rid of ‘political vultures agent-provocateurs’ whose sole aim was to destroy the party with their greedy and politics of attrition, whilst calling on the Rawlingses to remain calm in the face of undue provocation.
“Rather than engage these natters and rabble rousers and fall knee-deep into their maggot-filled cesspit, the Rawlingses must exercise maximum restraint to preserve their nobility and stature among their admirers,” the group said, adding “after all, there will be no NDC without the Rawlingses.”
The group has therefore vowed heaven and earth to deny those it calls ‘unscrupulous elements’ the unsavory reputation they are desperately seeking to earn.
Should they continue with their agenda to discredit the Rawlingses, FONKAR says “we will have no alternative but to declare them WANTED in the NDC.”