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Presidential Staffer Dennis Miracles Aboagye has justified the supposed incendiary comments made by Food and Agriculture Minister Bryan Acheampong, saying there is absolutely nothing wrong with them.
The Director of Local Government Services at the Office of the President said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is rather putting a spin on the comments for that party’s parochial interest.
“First of all, Bryan Acheampong said absolutely nothing wrong,” he told host Alfred Ocansey on The Keypoints on TV3/3FM on Saturday, April 15.
“Except when you want to place or superimpose your own understanding or interpretation to what he said.
“Bryan Acheampong was speaking to an NPP group and he says that the economy has gotten very terrible [and] worse and at a point when the economy was going down, the opposition party thought that by default, based on the challenges that we’re facing, they are automatically coming to power.”
He added how the Agriculture Minister sees things improving.
“So, he is very confident that by June, if the IMF support also comes through, a lot of things will stabilise and then as a political party our chances in the elections is going to look even brighter and the NDC party may collapse.”
Notwithstanding this justification, Bryan Acheampong’s comments have attracted condemnation from a wide section of the public with the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) petitioning the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to arrest him.
But Mr Miracles Aboagye said the NDC has always interpreted similar comments made by former President John Dramani Mahama, who he said had even been blunt in using words like ‘violence’.
“Why are you not accepting the interpretation that Bryan Acheampong and the NPP is also giving to his comments.
“The NPP has explained for the past one week that Bryan Acheampong did not mean violence.”
He said the ruling government holds the fiduciary responsibility to ensure a violence-free elections.
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