Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has indicated that politicians must be seen as the worst enemy of the citizenry.
Speaking to teachers at the launch of the 2023 Teacher Prize Day in Accra, Dr. Yaw Adutwum who is also the Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe in the Ashanti Region indicated that politicians sit, eat together, and lie on national television to the ordinary citizens. He indicates that the public must be vigilant in believing politicians and what they say.
“I believe that better days are ahead of us and not behind us. Don’t pay attention to some of the assertion by my colleague politicians who will come and tell you that this government has done nothing in education”, he indicated.
He adds that politicians keep lying on national televisions about projects they have constructed with taxpayer’s money and get away with it.
“Politicians are our worst enemies because sometimes I look at it and I am saying to myself, as a citizen of Ghana, if I wasn’t a politician, how would I feel if I hear both parties lambasting each other and discounting the achievements they’ve chalked with taxpayer’s money and saying that they have done nothing,” he indicated.
He indicates that when they meet in parliament, they speak about the bad of their opponents and leave out the good things they have done.
“Politicians have done some good work so when they are lying to you don’t hear them. When we are in Parliament we don’t say those things; we eat together, have fun together, we come on TV and we lie to you to get you so frustrated because how on earth can somebody say that the teacher student ratio at Senior High Schools in Ghana is 1:24,000?” he queried.