President Nana Akufo-Addo will today, Tuesday, July 18 have his first face-to-face meeting with journalists and allow himself to be questioned by them at the Flagstaff House.
Information Minister Mustapha Hamid has adi the president will not use the press conference to shower praises on himself.
“This is not a press conference to engage in self-aggrandisement and say that: ‘We have done this, we have achieved this, we have achieved that.’ That’s not the purpose,” Mr Hamid said on Monday, 17 July ahead of the president’s encounter with the media.
“We will not come and give ourselves marks as other presidents have done in the past and say: ‘We’ve achieved 90 per cent, 80 per cent.’ We don’t believe it is proper for us to set our own exam questions, mark them and grade ourselves and all that.”
Mr Hamid said: “This press conference by the president is in line with his pledge, when he took over office, to be accountable and open and accessible to the Ghanaian people for two reasons: he thinks that this accountability and interaction with the Ghanaian people is first of all a democratic requirement … and then secondly also he recognises that he is a human being and, therefore, that he is not perfect and, therefore, that once in a while, you’ll meet with people, they will give you ideas, they’ll make suggestions, they will even criticise your policies and so on so that you can even take these criticisms on board …”
Mr Hamid said Nana Akufo-Addo will “account to the people” what his government has done so far in the first six months of his first year in office.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
