KOKU ANYIDOHO SHOULD BE ADVISED

Some people say his attitude is in resemblance to that of the former minister of information under the kuffuor administration Mr. Asamoah Boateng. Yes, to some extent because they are all in charge of disseminating information.Mr. Asabee's arrogance has placed him in the position he and his wife find themselves and I bet Koku Anyidoho does not want to go that lane.

President Atta-Mills as we are all aware of is a soft-spoken person and the people around him should reflect this character. As a Communications Director at the castle I expected Mr. Anyidoho to be very accommodating and tolerating when he comes out to talk on issues concerning the President and the country at large no matter how passionate he is about the topic of concern or irrespective of the provocation he gets from the main opposition party. These provocations are meant to trap certain people and I advice he should be smart to realise this.

I recently read on the blog of Ato Kwamena Dadzie a morning show host at Joy fm,that Mr. Anyidoho told him he had cobwebs in his head when he Ato spoke his mind about the information structures at the castle some months ago. Ato was concerned as to the need of a presidential spokesperson, a communications director and three ministers of information all performing very related roles.The response he got from Mr. Anyidoho was “When Ato Kwamena Dadzie decides to move the ignorance-filled discourse to absurd levels, it is only proper that I do my utmost best to clear some of the cobwebs in [his] head,”. I think this was a sad statement to be heard from someone close to a humble and calm President.

Not too long ago, Mr. Anyidoho was called to respond to the minority's call that the President was acting only when he was pressured to do so and even as a young person, I thought the reply Koku gave was not supposed to be a debunk statement. What he said was that Presidents now and forever will continue to take decisions and that the minority should come to terms with that.He even made reference to the decisions being taken in the UK concerning their just ended elections and I thought it was very unnecessary. Maybe he should have followed the philosophy of some people that all that is happening is a mere coincidence. That would have been better to understand.


Mr. Anyidoho is also captured to have said he disliked the former president J.A. Kuffuor on a foreign media with the reason that Mr. Kuffuor did very little for his people but rather made himself rich together with the people around him.


Again, if some of you can remember there was a time when Koku was supposed to appear
before the privileges committee of parliament for insulting members of parliament on the minority side. I listened to him on radio on that day on Citi Fm where he made that statement and the specific words he used were too harsh though I think the minority deserved every bit of those words. The issue was about Kwame Mpianim who vouged openly for the President that he was a President to be trusted with the
revenue from oil sales. Mr. Mpianim went on further to say he saw President Atta-Mills return some brown envelopes. So it became a big defense rod for the NPP who demanded the President reports the bribers to the police or else apologise to Ghanaians. This was completely "irresponsible" as said by Mr. Anyidoho on the part of minority NPP.

Till today Mr. Anyidoho has not appeared before any committee because some known people like Mr. Kwesi Pratt and other NDC sympathesizers solidarized with him and got pissed with the members of parliament for having too many privileges. These actions do not make people like me to like Mr. Anyidoho and even the President for choosing him. Some other people need these actions to get their political business going on. So Mr. Koku Anyidoho please be very careful about what you say especially on air or during interviews.