Senior Presidential advisor and leading member of the ruling New Patriotic Party, Honourable Yaw Osafo Marfo has eaten the humble pie and apologized for his leaked tribalistic comments.
Leading member of the ruling New Patriotic Party, Former Senior Minister and now senior presidential advisor of the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo administration, Honourable Yaw Osafo Marfo has rendered and unqualified apology for his leaked ethnocentric comments.
In a 7-point letter released and signed by the former minister of finance and education under the President John Agyekum Kuffour regime, the senior presidential advisor admitted and conceded that he erred.
Background to the story
Earlier last month, social media and traditional media was awashed with sound bites of Yaw Osafo Marfo asserting the Asantes weren't part in the struggle for Ghana's independence but Akyems.
Statement by Yaw Osafo Marfo
My attention has been drawn to circulations of excerpts of a conversation I had recently with some colleagues relating to the roles of various ethnic groups in the pre-independence struggle.
Despite the nature and circumstances of the discussion, I concede that I erred, and that these comments caused offence and well-deserved criticism.
I must state that the comment was never intended to stir up ethnic tensions between Akyems and Asantes. Ethnic tensions is not a thing I want for our country or the NPP.
I therefore wish to offer my unqualified and sincere apologies for these comments
For my many years of public service, creating divisions is not a thing I will seek to do for a country that I love and spent many decades serving as public officer. My preoccupation during my long career in public service has been to serve the whole of the country as one unit and not in part.
Beyond party politics, I will continue to share a common objective vision for the country, even if the pathway to getting there might differ.
May the good Lord continue to bless and keep us together as a nation. A unity that our leaders both past and present have knitted together through their sweat and toil into what we call Ghana.
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