Kobina Tahir Hammond, a lawmaker from Adansi Asokwa, has come under fire from the public for saying that Ghana’s youth are unsuited for leadership, and media star Nana Aba Anamoah has joined the chorus of outrage.
Hammond added that young people should exercise tolerance and abstain from denigrating the elderly for partisan political purposes in response to a recent incident in which President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo received jeers at a performance.
The Adansi Asokwa MP continued by claiming that even if given the opportunity, young people lack “coconut heads” and cannot govern the nation.
“It is not possible for governance to be left to the youth; you cannot do it; you won’t understand. You have all left your beards and have been roaming town but there is nothing in your head,” he is quoted to have said.
KT was condemned by Nana Aba Anamoah, who joined the public uproar against the MP’s views.
via a Facebook post.
“K. T. Hammond like comedy a lot. Too much of it,” wrote Nana Aba.
A lot of people have criticized the MP for his statements, with some calling them false.
The opposition’s North Tongu legislator Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has added his voice to the condemnation of his fellow lawmaker.
Okudzeto Ablakwa disagreed with KT Hammond’s suggestion that young people aren’t capable of holding leadership positions. It was “outlandish” and “terribly wrong,” he said.
“The very people who hail us when leadership produces positive results do not deserve to be vilified when they express disappointment in leaders for their abysmal performance.
“K.T. Hammond is terribly wrong, and it’s an outlandish fallacy for him to claim the youth aren’t fit to lead,” he stated in social media posts dated September 27, 2022.
incident involving jeers: What happened exactly?
Numerous local and foreign artists performed during the concert, which attracted thousands of spectators to the Black Star Square.
The president was asked to speak as the event’s host, and he did so by delivering a prepared statement that lasted for more than six minutes.
The audience began to jeer as he declared, “The world is in Ghana today.”
Even though there was great applause and chants of “away, away,” which had initially been individuals objecting to the president’s presence on stage, the president persisted and finished his address.
As if that weren’t bad enough, the president was made fun of on social media by others who seized on the news.
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