Kobina Tahir (K.T) Hammond, a member of parliament for Adansi Asokwa, has expressed anger at how President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was jeered at the just-concluded Global Citizen Festival.
The politician stated that it was improper for young people to insult the president and, by extension, older members of society, especially for political reasons, in an interview with journalists that Accra-based Joy FM shared with journalists.
He asked the young people to always maintain their modesty and show appropriate respect to older people.
According to K. T. Hammond, the platform from which the president spoke was not political enough to justify the response some attendees gave him.
“We don’t live in a country and do that. Let’s be humble. Whatever we do, the president is the executive head of this country. When he came, he didn’t say anything. It wasn’t even a political platform.
“He only said the event has brought the attention of the world to Ghana, and the youth started booing at him. We will always tell the youth to be humble. When a matter comes up, we say we are going to consult elders. We don’t say we are coming to consult the youth, whose heads are like coconut.
“We consult the elderly on matters because they are wise. But because of politics, we do anything with the elderly. Let it even be a political platform that you can heckle, but it wasn’t even a political rally.
“The youth should respect the elderly. We shouldn’t let it be that because of politics we can insult everyone. It’s not possible for the youth to be left to manage the affairs of the country.
“They won’t know how to do it in the first place. You don’t understand. You are gallivanting about in this town with beard, nothing is in your heads,” he stated.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Joseph Asare
