Former President John Dramnani Mahama has called the silence of Pastor Mensa Otabil on the Akufo Addo administration an act of hypocrisy following how the General overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) had criticised his government while he was in power.
The clergyman had stated that he prefers to watch animals in the zoo to watching Ghana Television due to the fact that the TV stations in the country do not discuss anything useful beyond politics.
The former President said, “Something is pardonable when one government is in power but when another is in power it’s unpardonable, things that the media would have been so loud about under my administration, it happens every day and it’s like it’s business as usual.
“That is the hypocrisy of our civil society and religious and traditional leaders, everybody is quiet, suddenly some say they don’t watch TV anymore and that they watch animals”.
The former President was addressing the NDC’s UK-Ireland branch on Monday March 19 2018, adding that, “in our time they were not watching animals, they were watching political discussions. You’re now tired of too much politics…you’ll be tired, because your darling government is super incompetent and so you’re tired of hearing the analysis, that’s the hypocrisy we face in our country.”
