By William
Yaw Owusu
Thursday
August 02, 2018
Former Consul General to Dubai, Daniel Osei, has claimed
that former Vice President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, who passed on recently
was indeed treated shabbily by the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress
(NDC) administration under which he served.
Mr. Osei, who apparently gave credence to the outburst
of Mrs Amissah-Arthur during the final funeral rites of her husband, said the former
vice president was a shining star but some handlers of ex-President John Mahama
frustrated his efforts.
The circumstances surrounding the alleged
maltreatment of the former vice president started unraveling when his wife
Matilda lambasted perceived detractors of her husband at the funeral last
Friday.
The glaring hypocrisy, which was being displayed in
the form of tributes, appeared to have irked his wife Matilda during the final
funeral rites of the ex-Vice President last Friday at the Accra International
Conference Centre.
She clearly could not take it any longer when she
decided to let everything off her chest by launching unprecedented vitriolic
attack on her husband’s ‘detractors,’ leaving Ghanaians to wonder what might
have gone wrong.
“Over the last few weeks, I have been amazed at the
number of people who have come to show us love, and I asked myself is this
Ghana? Are all these people in Ghana? Because the maligning, the lies, the
treachery, the wickedness, the deliberately (sic) changing things so that they
could look better than others, the mischievousness… I ask myself is this Ghana?
I ask myself is this my own husband that people have come to pay tribute to?”
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Mrs Amissah-Arthur’s attack, according to insiders,
was directed particularly at some elements in the opposition National
Democratic Congress (NDC) who did everything to frustrate him when he served as
a vice president.
In the ensuing heat, Mr. Osei, who appears not to
see eye to eye with former President Mahama, who appointed him as Consul
General, claimed some persons around the former president made sure Mr.
Amissah-Arthur was never successful in office.
He said the late Amissah-Arthur’s wife did not speak
out of context and said he believed the widow did not direct her anger towards
the political opponents of her late husband but elements in the NDC.
“She spoke directly to individuals. Those
individuals who deliberately changed stuff to bring down his husband, those
individuals who maligned him,” the former envoy said, adding “a lot of people
didn’t even know that late Amissah-Arthur’s child is an eye doctor who
participated in the first successful eye transplant; a very big accomplishment.
“Just look at this example, I just mentioned, that
his child was part of the team that conducted the first surgery on eye transplant
and people within the Presidency deliberately killed this story because they
don’t want him to shine better than others,” Ambassador Osei alleged.
To him, Mr Amissah-Arthur was an asset to the party
and a real gem.
“Those who were with him at the Bank of Ghana (BoG)
during his tenure will testify that he was a person of integrity and he
performed honourably. He’s very hard working and respects everybody.”
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