The Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has asked colleague lawmakers and politicians to desist from attacking the youth when they express their dissatisfaction with leaders over poor performances.
According to the North Tongu legislator, the same youth who praise leaders when they govern well to produce positive results are the same people who would criticize when leadership performs abysmally.
His remarks come after MP for Adansi-Asokwa, K.T. Hammond lashed out at the youth and described them as “the young ones, whose heads are like coconuts.”
He also described the youth as people with grown beards who have nothing in their heads.
K.T. Hammond was reacting to the heckling of President Akufo-Addo at the Global Citizen Festival while he was delivering a speech.
The president was hooted at while others chanted that he leaves the stage.
In his reaction, K.T. Hammond said that it is the elders in society who are consulted when there is an issue to be resolved and not the young ones, “whose heads are like coconuts.”
But Mr. Ablakwa believes that “the very people who hail us when leadership produces positive results do not deserve to be vilified when they express disappointment in leaders for their abysmal performance.”
Responding further to K.T. Hammond’s assertion that the youth cannot govern a nation, Mr. Ablakwa in a tweet remarked that “K.T. Hammond is terribly wrong & it’s an outlandish fallacy for him to claim the youth aren’t fit to lead.”
