At 77, you are retiring some people who are 17, 18 years your juniors - Blakk Rasta punches Akufo-Addo

A few weeks ago, President Akufo-Addo forced Auditor-General Daniel Yaw Domelevo to retire following reports that per his documents at the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), he attained the compulsory retirement age of 60 in June last year.

And a few weeks later, Kofi Osei Ameyaw, the Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), was forced by the President to go on his compulsory retirement.

 “Upon reaching the compulsory retirement age of sixty years on 20 February 2020, the President of the Republic, by a letter under my hand dated September 3, 2020, granted you a one-year contract of service as Director-General of the National Lottery Authority,” parts of the President’s statement to Osei Ameyaw, signed by Executive Secretary Nana Asante Bediatuo, read.

“The one-year contract lapsed on 20 February 2021, and, therefore, you are retired on that date”.

“Accordingly, you are directed to hand over to Mr Ernest Mortey, the Finance Director of the Authority, who shall act as the Director-General of the Authority pending the appointment of a substantive Director-General. You are further directed to proceed to collect any terminal benefits or facilities due you under the relevant law,” it added.

Reacting to this, Blakk Rasta said 77-year-old President Nana Akufo-Addo must be told that he is tired and must retire.

He told Class FM on Monday (March 29): “Who has more tired limbs than the sleeping President Nana Akufo-Addo? He is a president who sleeps unprovoked. They are ashamed to tell him in the face that: ‘Mr President, you’re tired.'”

“[At] seventy-seven years, you are retiring some people who are 17, 18 years your juniors”, he observed, adding: “I mean, you look at Ghana and you ask yourself: ‘Are we going forward or retrogressing?’”