Digital Kenkey and Fish: This is what happens when you don’t tame your lips – Kwamena Duncan slams Mahama

Former Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan, has criticised John Dramani Mahama for his derogatory remarks about the Ga people.

Addressing the issue on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo on Wednesday, 24 October 2024, Kwamena Duncan stated that Mahama’s tendency to speak without consideration and disrespect others would eventually cause him trouble.

According to him, Mahama’s perception of the Ga people reflects the little regard he holds for them.

Duncan emphasised that someone of Mahama’s stature, having served as a former president, should not be making such divisive comments.

“If you are an elderly person and you don’t tame your lips, insulting people, others will also insult you. As a former president, you have insulted the sitting president who leads the people. You went further to disrespect the chiefs and clergymen, calling them hypocrites. They pray and prophesy for you, with chiefs even pouring libation to pray for you. But when your colleague also goes to the chiefs and clergymen, you insult them.

“Now, you have gone ahead to disrespect the Ga people. May God forbid the perception he has that Ghanaians will vote him back into power. How can you say that the Ga people don’t need anything and that they only need kenkey and fish? Amazing. To think that a former president would stand on a platform and tell the Ga people that they don’t need digitalisation,” he said.

Kwamena Duncan’s criticism of Mahama follows comments made by the former president during his engagement with the Ga people.

While interacting with NDC supporters in the Ablekuma South Constituency as part of his tour of the Greater Accra Region to canvass for votes, Mahama expressed confusion over why the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, would seek to implement nationwide digitisation when not all Ghanaians need such a policy.

He is quoted as saying that the Ga and Dangme people only need kenkey and fish to survive, rather than the digitisation being promoted by Dr Bawumia.

“They will digitalise the kenkey. Does that mean you will eat digitisation? But I know, by the grace of God, we will not eat digital kenkey. We eat real kenkey and fried fish,” he said at the rally at Chorkor Extra O.

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