A Political Marketing Strategist, has said that the former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo's decision to join the pensioner individual bondholders to picket the Finance Ministry over exemption from the debt exchange programme is a big blow to government.
In an interview on Joy FM’s Top Story on Tuesday, Dr Kobby Mensah explained that his assertion is due to the fact that government's image has been dented.
“I think the Honourable Sophia Akuffo’s actions in terms of picketing has really had a very big blow to the government,” he said.
He shared the view that people with such a reputation as Sophia Akuffo would not take any action for their personal interest but that of the general public.
According to him, “it is very instructive that people like her would represent their feelings on the side of the general public”, adding that “any attempt to intimidate her will not work because she is very much aware of what she is doing.”
It would be recalled that on Friday, former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo joined the pensioner individual bondholders to picket at the Finance Ministry to call for an exemption from the Debt Exchange Programme.
But her decision to show solidarity with the pensioners was criticised by Mr Otchere Darko.
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.
“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.
Meanwhile, former Chief Justice Sophia Akufo has fired back at the President’s cousin, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, describing him as a “disturbance.”
She said Mr Asare Otchere-Darko “can call me paranoid, but I don’t care’ adding, “he doesn’t decide for me what I need to do and not do.”
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