{"id":6650,"date":"2024-06-27T10:28:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T10:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=6650"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:28:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T10:28:55","slug":"napo-is-his-own-nemesis-franklin-cudjoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=6650","title":{"rendered":"Napo is his own nemesis \u2013 Franklin Cudjoe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Founding President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe has said Energy Minister and lawmaker for Manhyia South Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh who has been presented as the running mate to the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) needs to be serious and be prepared to deal with questions about the \u201cwasted efforts\u201d in the energy sector with a huge $2billion deficit in the sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Franklin Cudjoe says the former Minister of Education must also tell Ghanaians how qualitatively he thinks free senior high school policy has added to the country\u2019s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, how he will deal with aggressive corruption, reduce \u2018big daddy\u2019 expenditure plans and how and when he will ask his boss, Dr Bawumia to own up and man up to the economic decadence he has been gloriously a part of, Mr Cudjoe added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The presentation of Dr Opoku Prempeh by Dr Mahamudu Bawumia comes at a time when a survey done by the National Investigation Bureau tipped Dr Opoku Prempeh to be the running mate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The survey engaged 5,116 NPP delegates nationwide, including national, regional, constituency, and polling station executives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-9ecfd621844679ddb75e9e99f6cb2d45 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f2-SBLvMwBo?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the study, Dr Opoku Prempeh secured 76.2% of the responses from executives polled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a Facebook post, Franklin Cudjoe said \u201cSo it is true, Napo is running mate to Bawumia. Thanks for confirming, folks. I think it was a difficult choice because of his notorious public comments on critical issues and posturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI do know, however, that he can be serious when he wants to \u2013 I admired his professionalism when he was ranking member of the health committee in Parliament under the late Atta Mills. l had been invited to appear before the health committee meeting he was chairing to testify on certain aspects of the public health bill that was inimical to civil liberties. Eventually, the bill was passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was part of a small group he invited to meet over how he intended to roll out the free SHS promise after being named the first education minister in 2017. It was a difficult conversation especially when there was no policy paper to guide the implementation of the programme. But he pummelled through the implementation amidst the imperfections. The challenges though have come full circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNapo is his own nemesis. Ha can be abrasive when he wants to. Now though, he needs to be serious and be prepared to deal with questions about the wasted efforts in the energy sector, with a huge $2bn deficit in the sector. He must ell us how qualitatively he thinks free SHS had added to the country\u2019s GDP and finally how he will deal with aggressive corruption , reduce big daddy expenditure plans and how and when he will ask his boss, Bawumia to own up and man up to the economic decadence he has been gloriously a part of. I wish Napo and his boss well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founding President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe has said Energy Minister and lawmaker for Manhyia South Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh who has been presented as the running mate to the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) needs to be serious and be prepared to deal with questions about the \u201cwasted efforts\u201d in the energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2258,2261],"class_list":["post-6650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-dr-mathew-opoku-prempeh-2","tag-franklin-cudjoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6653,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6650\/revisions\/6653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}