According to him, opinion groups, media personalities, religious leaders who voiced out and criticised Mahama’s government as an incompetent leader, have been ineffective and quiet in the Akufo-Addo – Bawumia government on the economic challenges currently faced in the country.

“The hypocrisy of this country, it makes me sick to my stomach. At times it makes me ask myself questions if it is fit and worth being a Ghanaian. We are hypocrites,” he told the media.

“If it was Mahama who was president who took over from a government where a gallon of fuel was 14.50p and in less than six years a gallon of fuel now is 47 cedis almost 50 cedis, will the media have been quiet; will the clergy have been quiet?” he quizzed.

“The pastors who had become economist and criticising Mahama every Sunday in their sermon, Imams who were lambasting John Mahama in their Mosque, the civil society, the academia where are they, the media personalities where are they? he added.

He argued that media houses were chief instigators and agitators who gave platforms to the then opposition under Mahama’s administration.

He disclosed that some media persons as well as socialites and celebrities were proactive by leading demonstrations under the administration of the former president, over economic crisis faced during his tenure. However, they are nowhere to be found.

“It is the reality. We are hypocrites. Imagine that John Mahama was president and that in December just less three months ago, the dollar was six to the cedis and less that six months the dollar is 8.5 to the cedis.

“It is this hypocrisy that makes me sick to my stomach very sick to my stomach. Those who could do songs and attack Mahama and calling him all kinds of names, those who were praying in public and castigating, is Mahama not human?” he fumed.

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The Afrobeats artiste shared an artwork on social media, detailing how his African Giant album brought him huge success both home and abroad.

It also showed the amount of streaming he got on Spotify, international shows he appeared on and many other things which included his Grammy nomination and sold-out concerts.

However, fans couldn’t help but point out how he slammed other Nigerian singers for priding in the amount of streams their music do online some months back.

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Burna Boy had stated that streams does not automatically translate to talent so it was unclear to many why he should take pride in sharing after having a successful year.

When he made the statement, he got a response from another singer Mayorkun who recalled that Burna Boy blew up Internationally because of a song of his that people mistook for Kanye West’s song.

The song titled Ye got lots of streams as a result of the mix up and also gave the singer International recognition.

Mayorkun tweeted in response to his attack:

“Imagine blasting me on top streams when e be sey na because if Kanye West na him Ye take blow. It’s all love down here still #DMW”

She told Bernard Avle on The Point of View on Citi TV that, she may have been led by the “Holy Spirit” to make the comments while delivering her tribute on the day of the funeral service in Accra.

“I hate hypocrisy, I hate dishonesty, I hate lies,” she said.

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According to her, although she had prepared a one-page tribute to deliver during the ceremony, she was moved to free her mind on the hypocrisy some people were displaying.

“When my husband died, it came to the fore how hypocritical we can be as a people because a lot of people who threw insults at my husband that he was good for nothing and he didn’t do any work and so on, actually came and said he was not just a gentleman’s gentleman but he was so hardworking, worked so well and was fantastic,” she said in the interview.

“One of the things I said there, was to the effect that those who know his worth, value him, stressing that, this one year has proved to everybody Mr. Amissah-Arthur’s value.”

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In her tribute on that day, she said; “I asked myself, is this Ghana? Are all these people in Ghana because the maligning, the lies, the treachery, the wickedness, the deliberately changing things so that you could look better than others….Today I asked the same question, did people really know my husband. Did people take time to know him? The false accusations, the lies, the maligning. Did they know him?”

But in words of comfort, she concluded by saying her family cherished the late Kwesi Amissah-Arthur.

Source: CITIFM