Audio: Franklin Cudjoe is a zombie economist – Ken Agyapong

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 12:22:00 +0000

Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has described Mr Franklin Cudjoe, Chief Executive of IMANI Ghana’s assertion on the creation of new regions as hollow.

Kennedy Agyapong who described IMANI’s founding President as a zombie economist also accused him of using his position to deceive people for selfish gains.

“Franklin is a zombie economist who is only using his NGO to take money from people from abroad. How well do you even know these MPs that you speak badly about? If you have an NGO, do us a favour by using that means to educate Ghanaians instead of bashing parliamentarians,” he said.

Mr Agyapong was speaking on Asempa FM‘s Ekosii Sen Wednesday.

Mr Franklin Cudjoe had called for more transparency in the creation of new districts.

He believes the elevation of districts that had grown beyond their required threshold to the municipality and metropolitan statuses was the best way to go than splitting them.

According to him, the creation of regions was not the antidote to widespread poverty but allocation and prudent use of resources were the best ways to go.

Mr Franklin Cudjoe believes the move is also an avenue for politicians especially MPs of causing financial loss to the state.

But the outspoken MP said Mr Cudjoe’s assertion is borne out of sheer jealousy.

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“This [word censored] who begs people from abroad to satisfy himself should tell us where he got those figures and infantile ideas to support his claim,” he challenged.

He also served notice that he would haunt Mr Cudjoe by exposing his sources of income.

SA journalist ‘sacked for calling Zuma a zombie’

Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 09:02:21 +0000

A popular radio presenter in South Africa has been fired by the public broadcaster, SABC, for calling President Jacob Zuma a “zombie” in a Facebook post, the privately owned News 24 site has reported.
Radio Lotus presenter Ravi Govender’s contract was terminated because of concerns that he had brought the public broadcaster into disrepute, SABC spokesman Kaizer Kganyago was quoted by News24 as saying.
Mr Govender has not commented since his dismissal, but had earlier apologised for the post that he said he had put up in anger after listening to a speech by the scandal-hit Mr Zuma at the governing African National Congress’ (ANC) policy conference in the main city, Johannesburg, on Friday

“Just heard a Zombie Zuma giving a speech on the news. Massacring the beautiful English language. Uneducated creature. Even the other moron [Zimbabwe’s President Robert] Mugabe speaks much better,” he was reported to have said in the post which was later deleted.

Mr Zuma’s son, Edward, accused Mr Govender of hate speech, and threatened legal action against him.

“We fail as a family to understand what prompted Ravi Govender to make such a statement referring to our father as a zombie. Is this still part of freedom of speech? We believe that this is the worst form of abuse of democracy that many of our leaders fought so hard to achieve,” he was quoted by the Times Live news site as saying.

Mr Zuma has refused to bow to public pressure to resign despite being dogged by allegations of corruption.

zombie – Adomonline.com

Audio: Franklin Cudjoe is a zombie economist – Ken Agyapong

SA journalist ‘sacked for calling Zuma a zombie’