The Editor of pro-NDC newspaper, the Informer, Andy Kankam is asking the President to sack the Minister of Communications, Edward Omane Boamah and Presidential Staffer, Stan Dogbe, who he believes are complicit in the error –ridden Independence Day brochure saga.
The call follows the sacking of the acting Director at the Information Services Department (ISD), Francis Kwarteng Arthur, after he claimed sole responsibility for the typographical, grammatical and factual errors in the brochure
Mr. Kankam told Citi News, Stan Dogbe and Omane Boamah deserve to be equally sacked since they woefully failed in playing their supervisory roles.
“Once the ISD Director was working in tandem with the Communications Bureau, Mr. Stan Dogbe who is also in charge of the Communication Bureau must also be punished and relieved of his duties. Omane Boamah who was also suppose to play his supervisory role failed woefully, leading to the embarrassment that rocked the nation and the presidency for that matter. If you have a call from the President to serve him, it is not because you are better than the over 20 million Ghanaians.It is an honour and you must serve the President in honesty and with a caution , you must be very honest so as not to disgrace him,” he argued.
Investigate case
Meanwhile the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) is calling for a further probe into the saga.
According to the GII, a mistake of this magnitude could not have happened under the watch of only one person.
Speaking to Citi News, the Executive Director of the GII, Linda Ofori-Kwafo said the investigations should be targeted at all those who did not take responsibility in the production chain.
“Ghana Integrity Initiative assumes that there might be more than one person who has actually engaged in any form of wrongdoing which can amount to abuse of office, an area that we are interested in so if Mr. Kwarteng is being asked to go home who else is going to be punished because it beats my imagination that only Mr. Kwarteng started the process, took the decision to print outside the mandate of ISD and do all those things all by himself without accounting to anybody.I think there will be more than Mr. Kwarteng alone in this issue.”
Source: citifmonline
