Deputy Agric Min. William Quaitoo resigns
The under-fire deputy minister for food and Agriculture William
Quaitoo has resigned, a statement from the Flagstaff Hous has said.
“The
President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, this evening
accepted the resignation from office of the Deputy Minister for
Agriculture, Hon. William Quaitoo, MP, which takes immediate effect. The
President wished him the very best in his future endeavors,” the
statement read Tuesday.
Mr. Quaitoo in an interview with Starr
News last week went berserk, describing farmers from the North,
demanding compensation for their crops destroyed by the army worm
epidemic as people who cannot be trusted.
Despite rendering an
unqualified apology after he was heavily trolled by residents of the
Northern region, the Minority in Parliament led by their leader Haruna
Iddrisu asked for his sacking.
Describing the deputy Minister’s
comments as unjustified and unacceptable, the minority said in a
statement that “We find it totally unjustifiable and unacceptable that
the Deputy Minister would label the entire people of the three Northern
Regions who he says he has lived with for 27 years, as unreasonable
people, accomplished and persistent liars, people with a high propensity
for perpetrating fraud, people who all the time use these fraudulent
acts to steal money from the state.
“…Should he fail to quit these
office voluntarily and now, we call on the President, Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo Addo, to fire him immediately as a mark of his revulsion against
this unprovoked and reckless ethnocentric bigotry against the entire
people of the three Northern Regions”.
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