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The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has said that the Accra Mayor's disclosure of a private conversation he held with President J.E.A. Mills on the decongestion exercise in Accra was an act of indiscretion.He said even if the president apologized to Dr. Alfred Vanderpuije, going public on the issue sought to embarrass President Mills unfairly and unjustifiably.Following media reports that the president had instructed the AMA boss to suspend the decongestion exercise, Dr. Vanderpuije hurriedly called a press conference at which he denied knowledge of any directive to stop the exercise.He told journalists that the president had called and apologized to him and that he had accepted the apology in good faith.He later retracted his comments, saying the president did not apologize to him but expressed concern about the plight of evictees.Amidst the controversy, some analysts, as well as the Deputy Minister of Information, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa thought that it was improper for the mayor to have told the whole world that the president apologized to him.Mr Kweku Baako, commenting on the Mayor's calim, questioned how the Mayor could disclose what the President had discussed with him in public.Unsure what the Mayor's clear intents were, Mr. Baako said the action smacks of a person unreliable as a team player, questioning if the Mayor was so desperate to seek his own interest that he had to embarrass the president.Though the Presidential Spokesperson, Mahama Ayariga has indicated that there was no directive from the presidency to halt the decongestion exercise, Mr Kweku Baako said the government’s communication unit should have reacted quickly.“There should have been a rapid response and that did not come on time as far as I am concerned,” he said, adding that the credibility of the government’s communication system was at stake in this matter.He was alarmed that the Castle allowed “small, small things like this to go out of the window to create communication crisis for the presidency,” saying “it’s a mess, it’s almost a tragic comedy.”By: Dorcas Efe Mensah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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