Kwesi Botchway Jr, a Private legal practitioner and Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has launched an attack on the Founding President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe.
According to Kwesi Botchway Jr, Franklin Cudjoe is a politically sponsored mouthpiece who has surrendered his independent thinking.
He argued that Franklin Cudjoe has resorted to personal insults instead of engaging with the arguments he had raised about the performance of Finance Minister Dr Cassiel Ato Forson.
Kwesi Botchway Jr further questioned Mr Cudjoe’s intellectual ability, accusing him of allowing the fact that Ato Forson may be paying his medical bills to influence his public commentary.
In a Facebook post, Kwesi Botchway Jr wrote, “Dear Franklin,
You are perfectly entitled to disagree with my political views. Challenge my arguments, interrogate my facts and offer contrary evidence. But resorting to personal insults because you cannot intellectually engage the issues only exposes the emptiness of your argument.
I genuinely had a great deal of respect for you. Unfortunately, your latest outburst has demonstrated that I may have seriously overestimated your intellectual capacity. What a cheap display of intellectual bankruptcy!
The fact that Ato Forson may be paying your medical bills does not mean he should be allowed to own your brain. You must retain some independent capacity to think for yourself.
If there is anyone who has demonstrated the characteristics of an illiterate clown and all the other adjectives you have used to describe me, it is you.
Because, despite whatever education you may have acquired, you have exhibited a rather astonishing poverty of intellectual depth. You come across as nothing more than a cheap, politically sponsored mouthpiece.
Yes, I am a little boy. No argument there. But when you were my age, what exactly had you achieved? Which of your children and family members my age is more educated and better than me?
Since you are so enthusiastic about comparing economic indicators, perhaps you should also tell Ghanaians whether the cost of your medication has increased or decreased under this government. That is a far more practical question than the rehearsed political propaganda you have chosen to regurgitate.
How do you want me to describe a finance minister who can’t pay teachers, workers, farmers, public sector workers, deliver jobs, etc? He is not only the worst, but he is also incompetent.
You have blocked me, so I am unable to tag you directly.
Written with love and respect
Cheers!”.
His comment follows Franklin Cudjoe, who fired shots at Kwesi Botchway Jr, after he described Dr Ato Forson as the worst Finance Minister Ghana had ever had.
Franklin Cudjoe, in a post on X, questioned the NPP’s decision to appoint Kwesi Botchway Jr as its Deputy Communications Director.
The IMANI president described Kwesi Botchway Jr as an “illiterate clown” and accused him of making claims without providing evidence.
Franklin Cudjoe also challenged the NPP communicator to compare the economic conditions under the previous NPP government, led by former President Akufo-Addo, with those under the current NDC administration.
He highlighted a 54 per cent interest rate, 35 per cent lending rate, exchange rate collapse, a junk-rated economy and debt crisis under the previous administration.
However, in contrast, Franklin Cudjoe pointed to what he described as a five per cent inflation rate, 14 per cent lending rate and a reduction in Ghana’s debt-to-GDP ratio from 65 per cent to 45 per cent within a year under Dr Ato Forson.
According to Franklin Cudjoe, the current Mahama government had repaid its debts earlier than projected.
In a post in reaction to the 1957 news flyer which quoted Kwesi Botchway Jr as saying, “Ato Forson is the worst Finance Minister in the history of Ghana”, Franklin Cudjoe dismissed the claims saying, “How does a party wanting to be back in power end up with appointing iconoclast, illiterate clowns such as this little boy spewing rubbish every day without a shred of evidence and making him Deputy Communications Director or communicating for the party at all?”
“Just compare 54% interest rate, 35% lending, exchange rate collapse, Junk-rated economy, debt debacle under Bawumia and Ken OA vers..5% inflation, 14% lending rates and fastest debt reduction in history 65% GDP to 45% of GDP in a year plus repaid our debts in full earlier than projected by Cassiel Ato Forson and describe it as worst.? Sankwas!”
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