A senior lecturer in political science at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo has taken a swipe at Ghanaian politicians describing them as greedy and liars.
In an epistle on his Facebook page, inspired by comments by Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo that the public sector is chocked and cannot employ anymore, Professor Gyampo said “Politicians in Ghana would lie and deceive to get political power and when power is granted by the people, they would use this same power to inflict hardships on the people.”
He described them [politicians] as “greedy, they are self-seeking, self-serving, self-perpetuating and self-aggrandizing cabals.”
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“You get your own children enrolled in the Public Service immediately after winning an election and tell all other unemployed Ghanaians that the Public Service is bloated and cannot absorb them. Indeed if have your way, you would retrench some public servants.
“Really? What was your response to the past government’s public sector recruitment freeze when you were in opposition?
“I won’t condemn you because I knew you were either lying to get power or u never knew what you were talking about when you were in opposition.
“My happiness is that the very gullible people who failed to reason with me when I argued that politicians in Africa and for that matter, Ghana, do not mean well for the ordinary citizenry, are now beginning to know about the politics of deceit. Indeed, your own supporters have taken serious issues with your recent comment on employment in the Public Sector.
“You may be right in telling Ghanaians about the over-bloated nature of our Public Sector and the fact that it may not be able to absorb more people.
“But didn’t you know this as an astute professional when you were in opposition? Why did you criticize the same thing you are now doing?
Source: GhanaWeb
