Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications, Dr Rashid Tanko-Computer has criticised some actions of the erstwhile Akufo-Addo administration.
Dr. Tanko-Computer in his submissions on TV3’s Hot Issues, Sunday, March 2, 2025 referenced a particular instance in April 2024 where former President Akufo-Addo insisted that Chiefs in Ho stand up to greet him, stating that Chiefs as custodians of the land did not deserve such treatment.
The Deputy Director of Elections and IT for the NDC further criticised the former President’s notable act of carrying along his personal chair to functions and events.
“We have the benefit of hindsight. We are not going to repeat this kind of thing people did. People were carrying their own chairs around. Nobody could touch that chair. It has its own V8 carrying it all over the place.
“They will go and tell Chiefs that get up and greet me. You cannot sit and greet me. They didn’t know that the Chiefs are the custodians of the land. They didn’t care, they were behaving like some King Nebuchadnezzar and therefore any paramount Chief get up,” he stated.
He assured that President Mahama as a “down to earth President and respectful” will not engage in any of these acts.
“This is not that kind of President that we have, a down to earth President, respectful so he wants his appointees to behave same.
“The resources that they are giving is for ordinary Ghanaians not for ourselves,” he said.
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