Deputy Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu says calls on the president to apologise for comments he made concerning the ongoing strike by public sector workers “is completely illogical and must be dismissed with alacrity”.

According to him, the president was only speaking the truth and did not say anything that offended the sensibility of the doctors.

President John Mahama on Wednesday indicated he will not authorise any expenditure on wages not provided for in the budget for both workers and Article 71 office holders.

He said he will hold on to this commitment and face any likely political consequences that may come as a result of this decision.

The President said this when he addressed members of the Ghana Registered Midwives Association, GRWA at the launch of their 80^th anniversary in Accra.

The president's comments come a week after doctors declared a strike over the absence of conditions of service. 

They are threatening to resign en masse if their demands are not met. 

Some people, especially members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) have called on the president to apologise.

But the Deputy Minister says the president has said nothing wrong and needs not to apologise.

He said the president swore an oath which requires that “all 25 million Ghanaians are taken care of and he leads the government that has the responsibility of running the affairs of this country and he has a duty to ensure the equitable distribution of national resources.

“So he cannot allow a situation where the convenience and comfort of a few undermine the well-being and welfare of all. If as country you collect all your revenue and use 70 percent of it on 600,000 public sector workers you’ll be heading towards disaster”, he added.

In his view, the president only reiterated his position to put the country’s revenue to good use and ensure that basic social amenities are made available to all citizens not only a selected few.

“What the president has done has made it possible for government to reserve resources to finance education, health, road construction, the construction of CHPS compound, water and electricity”.

He doesn’t see why what the president said should be seen as something that “constitutes an insult to doctors or that it offends the sensibility of doctors for which reason the president must apologise”, adding that the request “beats his imagination”.

Mr Kwakye Ofosu said the president’s comments should not provide a basis for the doctors to intensify their illegal strike when they themselves “are not better in terms of decent commentary around this particular subject”.

He urged the doctors to return to the wards while processes to address their conditions of service are looked at by government.