{"id":121788,"date":"2015-06-03T15:58:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T15:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=121788"},"modified":"2015-06-03T17:21:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T17:21:19","slug":"rawlings-slams-impatient-hanna-tetteh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/06\/rawlings-slams-impatient-hanna-tetteh\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawlings slams ‘impatient’ Hanna Tetteh"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former President, Jerry John Rawlings has rebuked Ghana\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hanna Tetteh, describing her as \u201cimpatient.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jerry Rawlings on Wednesday\u00a0scolded Hanna Tetteh for walking out of the just ended Conference of the World Mayors in Accra on Monday.<\/p>\n
Something Mr.\u00a0Rawlings said she did because he insisted that the Vice President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur should read the keynote address on behalf of the President.<\/p>\n
Though Jerry Rawlings was told that Hanna Tetteh had been delegated to read the speech, he [Rawlings] questioned such decision and insisted that per protocol procedures, the Vice President must be allowed to read the speech.<\/p>\n
The former President narrated the incident to the World Mayors on Wednesday when he was given the opportunity to address the Conference.<\/p>\n
“I was told that the President was not coming to the start of the Conference. Instead he had delegated the Foreign Minister to come and represent him. So I said, he can\u2019t do that. \u00a0We have the Vice President here. Protocol is such that if \u00a0[President Mahama] cannot do it he should ask his vice president to come and open the conference, not his foreign minister. I tried to call the President and he called back and I told him that we have a Vice President on the ground and he cannot send his foreign minister [to represent him]. He probably wasn\u2019t told that the Vice President was [here], and he said sorry,” he narrated.<\/p>\n