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I'm sorry - Bagbin apologises over 'blind man, stammerer' comments
According to Bagbin, he takes full responsibility for the comments made, which he said was the misrepresented by some members of the NDC.
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According to him, he takes full responsibility for the comments made, which he said was the misrepresented by some members of the NDC for their political interest.
He said "I want to take full responsibility for the indiscretion of going with issues that will otherwise be private to the NDC. I have learnt that such disclosure could raise emotions among some sections of the Ghanaian society."
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Background
Alban Babgin has fired salvos accusing Mahama of appointing unqualified individuals to head sensitive positions during his tenure.
He specifically mentioned colleague MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa, and Dr Edward Omane Boamah, as some people who were not fit to be selected for ministerial positions.
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He told NDC delegates in the Volta Region last week that Okudzeto-Ablakwa, then Deputy Education Minister in charge of Tertiary, had ‘problems’ before he got his certificate from the university while Dr Edward Kofi Omane Boamah was a ‘stammerer,’ who should not have been the Communications Minister.
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"We had very good materials in our last government but the placement was wrong. Look at my son-in-law Ablakwa -brilliant handsome young man but he had problems before he got his certificate at Legon. You recall they almost rusticated him" Bagbin fired.
He said "after he came to do his national service in Parliament and joined politics, he was made a Deputy Minister for Education in charge of Tertiary. (So for) the lecturers, what are you telling them? Some of these decisions affected us a lot."
Bagbin described Dr Omane Boamah as "an intelligent young man" but said his appointment was misplaced.
"I learnt from tradition that it’s not the chief that speaks, it’s the linguist and so when you are a leader, you must have a very good linguist," he said.
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The Nadowli Kaleo MP in the Upper West region added that "when Prof (Atta Mills) was in power, Haruna Iddrisu was our linguist in charge of communications, when my brother [Mahama] came to power, he substituted him for Dr Omane Boamah, who is a natural stammerer."
But the MP has apologised when Ghanaians mounted pressure on him for his offensive comments.
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