Castle Batters FONKAR...As Anyidoho Rams Into Owusu-Bempah

Welcome

....to JusticeGhana Group

JusticeGhana is a Non-Governmental [and-not-for- profit] Organization (NGO) with a strong belief in Justice, Security and Progress....” More Details

Castle Batters FONKAR...As Anyidoho Rams Into Owusu-Bempah

Details: Parent Category: Our Country; Category: Politics; Created on Wednesday, 15 June 2011 00:00; Published Date; Hits: 2568

commentary

Castle Batters FONKAR...As Anyidoho Rams Into Owusu-Bempah

Family Calls For Enquiry Into Death After Fertility Surgery

Ebola Scare: Health Ministry Moves Into Action

Castle stirs controversy over Coat of Arms

BAWUMIA PUSHES MAHAMA INTO ACTION -As Gov’t abrogates ‘chop-chop’ GYEEDA contracts with service providers

Prez Mahama Bumps Into Akufo-Addo....At A Restaurant

Communications Director at the office of the President, Koku Anyidoho, has rounded on a leading member of the Friends of Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings (FONKAR), Ernest Owusu-Bempah, for suggesting that President Mills knocked on his doorsteps and asked him to bring his (Bempah's) expertise to bear in strategizing for the NDC's success in the run-up to the 2008 elections.

He has therefore issued a stern warning to the FONKAR Director of Operations not to try roping in President Mills on his media escapades, but should rather seek out ways of addressing the issues bordering on his locus as an NDC member.

He was reacting to assertions by the FONKAR member that President Mills called on him several times to help the NDC in its re-strategizing process during the 2008 election.

According to Owusu Bempah, his contribution to the NDCâ€™s 2008 electioneering campaign cannot be watered down in any way, revealing that he even organized some businessmen to donate $USD40,000 to the party and was asked (by then Candidate Mills) at a point in time to bring his expertise to bear in brainstorming for the NDC's electoral success.

But speaking in an interview on Adom FM's Dwaso Nsem morning show, Koku Anyidoho discounted Bempahâ€™s claims describing them as a figment of his imagination.

It is not true, Adakabre. President Mills has never spoken to Owusu Bempah and I don't think he will speak to him. Mills has never spoken to Owusu Bempah and not even about strategizing. With all due respect to Bempah, if Mills want to speak to him and strategize with him, he will do that through me and I have not done that and the president has not done that also," he stated.

According to him, Owusu Bempah is simply struggling to find his bearing within the NDC and is trying to tag onto President Mills. He therefore advised him to rather pursue other means of making himself relevant within the NDC fraternity.

If he has issues to do with his locus as an NDC member, let him find ways of dealing with it, he shouldn't come now and tag on to the president. He is struggling to find a locus within the NDC and he now wants to tag onto Mills. He should mind his own business and try and locate himself within the NDC family and not use President Mills as his address, he noted.

He was emphatic that if ever President Mills required the services of a media strategist, he will definitely not go searching for someone cast in the mold of Owusu Bempah.

"If Mills is looking for a media strategist, I'm sure he will not bypass Adakabre (referring to the host of the programme) for Owusu Bempah, he is nowhere on that ladder and so he should leave the President out of his messy waters and deal with issues relating to his membership as an NDC member," he added.

Source: Beatrice Adepa Frempong/Peacefmonline.com