By William
Yaw Owusu
Thursday
July 05, 2018
An innocuous narration by Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia
Ofori Panin II over how former Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur
might have died last Friday has attracted a disrespectful reaction from former
President John Mahama’s trusted aide, Stanislav Xoese Dogbe.
The Okyenhene in a short video that has gone viral
appeared to be drumming home the point that the country’s emergency health
response policy was weak and had used the events surrounding the sudden death
of the late vice president as a case in point.
Stan Dogbe’s comment has attracted the anger of some
Akyem youth calling for an apology from him and subsequent retraction of the
offensive statement.
Pick-Up
Van
The Okyenhene’s narration of how a prominent person
like the former vice president was ferried to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra
in a pick-up vehicle whilst in distress appears to have incensed Stan Dogbe who
fired disrespectfully at the prominent chief in a reaction.
He said the Okyenhene should “cease the recklessness
of seeking cheap popularity by going to public events and seeking to share
coloured stories.”
In the video, the Okyenhene was heard saying the
former Vice President who died suddenly on Friday, 29 June 2018, was
transported to the hospital at the back of a pick-up, when efforts to revive
him failed and added that there was no ambulance to convey the ex-leader.
Good
Friends
“As it has been for 14 years, any time I go there, I
meet my friend (Mr. Amissah-Arthur) and we will talk, shake hands … and then go
to our different machines… I heard 'bang'! Three women in the gym were
screaming, I left my machine and went and there laid my friend trying to find
some air to breathe,” he narrated.
The Okyenhene added “we gathered around him and
pumped his heart as hard as we could, yelled out his name; his wife was calling
out: 'Jesus, save him!' I just said: 'Call the ambulance, let's take him to the
hospital.’ There were about seven, eight of us, and something dawned on me.
When we took him out, there was no ambulance, there was no car, so we threw the
former vice-president in the back of a pick-up and drove off to 37.”
Cheeky
Response
The former President’s aide said cheekily on social
media that the prominent chief had his luxury vehicle around but was
complaining that there was no ambulance for them to carry the ex-Vice President
and appeared to suggest that the Okyenhene does not have a ‘good heart’ and was
being insincere in the narration.
“Someone should please tell the chief that he was
not the only one present when the tragedy struck our late boss and VP of this
country to go around talking,” he fired, adding “he had a luxury vehicle there,
and many others had their cars there, if he had a good heart and a spirit of
helping others, maybe; just maybe, he would have sent him to the hospital in
his car.”
He said “granted that he was sent to the hospital in
someone's vehicle, a pick-up; is the back seat of the vehicle, not the bucket
of the pick-up as his statement sought to portray. Which gym in this country
has a standby ambulance anyway?”
Okyenhene’s
‘Son’
He even extended his attack onto President
Akufo-Addo by sarcastically describing the President as the Okyenhene’s ‘son’
(because they hail from the same town - Kyebi).
“Your 'son', Nana Addo is watching on as the
National Ambulance Service collapses... deal with it and leave the family of
our late boss to mourn their son, husband, grandpa, father, uncle and relation,”
he fired.
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