NPP communication team member chides Prof. Ayensu-Danquah over 24-hour economy remark

A member of the communication team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), PK Sarpong, has slammed the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the Essikado-Ketan constituency, Prof. Grace Ayensu-Danquah, for comments she recently passed.

Speaking in a panel discussion on Accra-based Asempa FM, Prof. Ayensu-Danquah, while reacting to her co-panellist, NPP’s Akosua Manu, saying that she does not understand Mahama’s 24-hour economy proposal, asserted that people who don’t understand the policy have issues.

"… if you don't understand it, then it is your brain that is not functioning properly because the eyes cannot see what the brain does not know," the NDC parliamentary candidate for Essikado-Ketan said in local dialect Twi.

Reacting to this in a statement sighted by GhanaWeb, PK Sarpong described the comments passed by the professor as ‘senseless’ and beneath her status.

He added that her remarks also show that she, herself does not understand the 24-hour economy policy, which is the main policy proposal of the flagbearer of the NDC, John Dramani Mahama.

“It is true that Prof. Dr Grace Ayensu-Danquah’s field of study or teaching has nothing to do with politics but is it not strange that she is bereft of common sense? A whole professor referring to those who don’t understand their vague 24-hour proposal as senseless is something that beats my imagination.

“The senselessness describes she, herself, not those she insulted. I can only imagine the treatments she subjects her students to. A woman with such a toxic mindset wants to be in parliament? Parliament doesn’t need such a person as a legislator,” he wrote.

The NPP communicator added, “One thing is clear. She doesn’t know what their own 24-hour economic plan is about. She has no clue what it entails. But can we blame her? No! Even the one who promulgated it, John Dramani Mahama, doesn’t understand it”.

PK Sarpong also said that the 24-hour economy proposal can never be a policy because “it is a demand-driven thing and not supply”.

“A 24-hour idea is only a by-product of an improved economy. John Mahama just had to say something and he did, but has failed to explain what it means or how he would implement it. This explains why we no longer hear them talk about it these days.”

Read his full statement below:

It is true that Prof. Dr Grace Ayensu-Danquah’s field of study or teaching has nothing to do with politics but is it not strange that she is bereft of common sense? A whole professor referring to those who don’t understand their vague 24-hour proposal as senseless is something that beats my imagination.

The senselessness describes she herself, not those she insulted. I can only imagine the treatments she subjects her students to. A woman with such a toxic mindset wants to be in Parliament? Parliament doesn’t need such a person as a legislator.

One thing is clear. She doesn’t know what their own 24-hour economic plan is about. She has no clue what it entails. But can we blame her? No! Even the one who promulgated it, John Dramani Mahama, doesn’t understand it.

The 24-hour idea was ‘on the spur of the moment’ thing. The man needed to just make a catchy statement and that’s exactly what happened.

He, JDM, has failed to explain how his own proposal will work. This explains why Nana Oye Bampoe, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, Asiedu Nketiah and all their communicators have been fumbling with it and can’t explain it well.

If the person behind the proposal cannot explain his own policy, how do we expect his assigns to do so? Grace Ayensu Danquah should have found a better way to respond to the question asked instead of the insolent manner and attacks he rained on Akosua Manu and all of us.

Bottom line, the 24-hour proposal can never be a policy. It has never been a policy anywhere in the world. It is a demand-driven thing and not supply.

A 24-hour idea is only a by-product of an improved economy. John Mahama just had to say something and he did, but has failed to explain what it means or how he would implement it. This explains why we no longer hear them talk about it these days.

P.K. Sarpong, Whispers from the Corridors of the Thinking Place.

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