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| Sophia Akuffo is bigger than this - Gabby Otchere-Darko. |
A leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby
Otchere-Darko, has criticised the former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo for
joining her colleague pensioners to picket at the Finance Ministry on Friday.
The cousin of President Akufo-Addo, in a series of tweets on
Sunday, said the former Chief Justice should have taken the time to understand
issues pertaining to the ongoing Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) before
choosing the side of the pensioners.
According to Mr Otchere-Darko, government has reviewed its first
position and settled on a 15% yield maturing in five years instead of the
initial 15 years, and making it voluntary for individual bondholders to
participate.
“For a former CJ to take up a noble cause such as she did but at
such late hour when all was done and for all that publicity, she owed it to
herself and her social standing to have understood the issues far better than
what she exhibited last Friday. She is bigger than that,” Mr Otchere-Darko
tweeted.
Madam Sophia Akuffo on Friday described government’s decision to
include pensioners in the DDEP as wicked, disrespectful, and unlawful when she
spoke to JoyNews while picketing.
She noted that the government had breached a contractual agreement
and could be sued.
But Mr Otchere-Darko was of the view that Madam Akuffo erred “big
time in her basic appreciation of the issues”
“Why picket over something you don’t like (the improved offer)
when you have the right not to sign up? Sorry, but I struggle to get her
emotional outburst over-exemption!
“I hope she won’t volunteer to picket tomorrow and on the same
issues when the time to sign up has expired,” he wrote.
(6) For a former CJ to take up a noble cause such as she did but at such late hour when all was done and for all that publicity, she owed it to herself and her social standing to have understood the issues far better than what she exhibited last Friday. She is bigger than that.
— Gabby Otchere-Darko (@GabbyDarko) February 12, 2023
(5) I was among those who pleaded for the exemption of pensioners. But, the Govt had to balance all that with the need to protect the economy for the 33m population and settled on the 15% yield maturing in 5yrs instead of 15, and that the individual was FREE not to participate.
— Gabby Otchere-Darko (@GabbyDarko) February 12, 2023
(4) Why picket over something you don't like (the improved offer) when you have the right not to sign up? Sorry, but I struggle to get her emotional outburst over exemption! I hope she won't volunteer to picket tomorrow and on the same issues when the time to sign up has expired.
— Gabby Otchere-Darko (@GabbyDarko) February 12, 2023
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