{"id":24108,"date":"2022-07-06T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=24108"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:38:04","slug":"akufo-addo-nearly-poked-my-eye-with-his-finger-for-criticising-his-government-dr-wereko-brobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/07\/06\/akufo-addo-nearly-poked-my-eye-with-his-finger-for-criticising-his-government-dr-wereko-brobby\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo nearly poked my eye with his finger for criticising his government \u2013 Dr Wereko-Brobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, has accused President Akufo-Addo of attempting to prick his eye for criticising his government.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosing the encounter for the first time on Asempa FM\u2019s EkosiiSen, monitored by on Tuesday, Dr. Wereko-Brobby said the President would have succeeded if he (Dr. Wereko-Brobby) had not taken a step backwards.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he met President Akufo-Addo at a funeral after he granted an interview on\u00a0Joy FM,monitored by<strong> NSEMGH<\/strong>\u00a0to discuss the state of affairs of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>His comments, apparently, did not excite the President since he had criticised the manner in which the Akufo-Addo-led administration is managing affairs.<\/p>\n<p>On the back of this, Dr. Wereko-Brobby said the President accused him of spreading untruths about his government.<\/p>\n<div id=\"in-article\"><\/div>\n<p>When asked if he was being serious about the assertion, Dr. Wereko-Brobby said, \u201cyou can go and ask him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The outspoken politician mentioned Dr. Osei Akoto and the Chief of Staff; Akosua Frema Osei-Opare as witnesses of his encounter with President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>The pioneer of private media in Ghana, also said it is disappointing to see how the NPP government is currently in a mess after all the support and advice he and some big wigs offered to the President shortly after he assumed office.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, he was giving a weekly memo to President Akufo-Addo to help shape his governance, but his efforts were disregarded, hence, he stopped.<\/p>\n<p>source:joynews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, has accused President Akufo-Addo of attempting to prick his eye for criticising his government. Disclosing the encounter for the first time on Asempa FM\u2019s EkosiiSen, monitored by on Tuesday, Dr. Wereko-Brobby said the President would have succeeded if he (Dr. Wereko-Brobby) had not taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[11261,843,13052,8366,887,1286,7409,8123,7896,192,2264,11493,67,2491,3805,7669,7408],"class_list":["post-24108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accused","tag-akosua-frema-osei-opare","tag-akufo","tag-charles-wereko-brobby","tag-chief-of-staff","tag-dr-wereko-brobby","tag-dr-akoto-osei","tag-eye","tag-funeral","tag-ghana","tag-government","tag-interview","tag-nsemgh","tag-osei-akoto","tag-president","tag-president-nana-addo-dankwa-akufo-addo","tag-wereko-brobby"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50717,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24108\/revisions\/50717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}