A wild headline on the front page of the New Publisher, a national newspaper in Ghana has been pooh-poohed by social media users.
The top story of the newspaper dated August 2-6, 2023 read `Dan Botwe Fingers Naa Torshie Again’.
Apparently, the newspaper was giving a report on a letter Dan Botwe, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development is said yo have written to President Nana Akufo-Addo, in which he named Irene Naa Torshie Addo-Lartey, Administrator of the Districts Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) and accused her of refusing to cooperate with his ministry in the equitable disbursement of Common Funds to the various MMDAs in a manner which would be in the best interest of government.
Portions of Mr Botwe’s letter on July 10, 2023 read ‘It is instructive for His Excellency to note that this Ministry has not had the expected level of cooperation from the Office of the Administrator of the District Assemblies Common Fund.
‘In the past two (2) years and three (3) months since I have been in the Ministry, efforts to get the Office of the Administrator of District Assemblies Common Fund to align with the Ministry in the strategic determination of the beneficiary Districts of such allocations has not been successful’.
He stressed that ‘Even more worrying is the fact that, as the Ministry responsible for the MMDAs we are not involved, engaged or consulted in any form by the Administrator of the District Assemblies Common Fund in the development of the formula proposed to Parliament. We are of the view that Government would be more efficient in the utilization of such resources if we align the decision-making process with all relevant stakeholders’.
Evano@papaevano_1 commented ‘Oh publisher, “finger” s3 s3n? ???????????? eii gyama me b) dam lol. “Finger” & “accuse” all be 6 letter words oo ????????’.
Jude@JudeOnTwitt3R said ‘Terrible headline. Grow up guys’.
ROKA@Captin_Bruno_ twittered ‘Ah Mr. Dan Botwe, why will you finger someone’s wife (again) ????’. More comnents in tbe tweet below.
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SOURCE: Kasatintin.com
