Create your own village and rule them; you’ll never be President – Yaa Titi jabs Afriyie-Akoto

"The Iron Lady" Regina Yaa Titi Okrah, co-host of Maakye on Onua TV/FM, thinks that Owusu Afriyie Akoto, the outgoing Minister of Agriculture, would make the best president if he made his own village and ruled it.

She says that Mr. Afriyie Akoto did such a bad job as Agric Minister that he shouldn't have tried to become the first gentleman of the land.

When Media General's Northern sector Bureau Chief, William Evans-Nkum, looked at the former two-term Kwadaso MP's political work since he became a lawmaker in 2009, he said that he did a good job, even though his party was in the opposition while he was in office.

Mr. Evens-Nkum said that his temper was the thing that made him a bad leader.

After he left Parliament in 2017, when President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo took office, he made him the minister of food and agriculture. He held that job until two days ago, when he resigned.

Yaa Titi says that Mr. Afriyie Akoto has a lot of unpopular records as sector minister, which makes it hard to understand why he wants to be president.

"When you were alone, cocoa spraying on a large scale stopped. Farmers were given free fertilizer, which was sold to them. Food prices have gone up in a way that has never happened before, and now account for 41% of Ghana's overall inflation rate of 54%. What did you do with "Plant for Food and Jobs"? You spent a lot of money to fight the Fall Army Worm (FAW), but you haven't told Ghanaians more about how much you spent. And you still want us to vote for you as President when you couldn't even run a single ministry? Since you will never be president, it would be better if you made your own village and ran it. "You won't win anything, not even the primaries," she was sure.

A Ghana News Agency report from June 2017 said that the FAW that hit Ghana in 2016 affected about 18,000 hectares of farmland and cost the country $64 million to fight.

Dr. Roger Kanton, the Deputy Director of the CSIR-Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), said this in Kpaliga, a farming community in the Kumbungu district, during a program to raise awareness about the FAW problem.