By Enock Akonnor (Managing Editor) enockakonnor2013@gmail.com
KOB Unleashes Scathing Attack on Kwaku Kwarteng, Calls His ‘Disrupter’ Claims Deceitful, Cowardly, and Insulting
Hon. Kwame Osei Bampoe, popularly known as KOB, the Assembly Member for the Aprade Mesewamu Electoral Area and an unflinching supporter of former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has launched a blistering broadside against Hon. Kwaku Kwarteng, former Deputy Finance Minister and MP for Obuasi East, accusing him of rank hypocrisy, political cowardice, and deliberate deception.
Hon. Kwarteng, in defending former Assin Central MP Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, recently lashed out at what he called “suit-wearing, English-speaking gentlemen” who, according to him, parade eloquence on international platforms and return home to deliver “sloppy leadership,” while calling for a so-called “disrupter” to take over Ghana’s political direction.
But KOB says the comments are not only reckless; they are intellectually bankrupt.
“Who exactly are these suit-wearing, English-speaking gentlemen?” KOB thundered. “Is Kwaku Kwarteng excluding himself? Is he excluding Kennedy Agyapong? Or is education suddenly a sin only when Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia represents it?”
According to KOB, the statement is a thinly veiled attack on competence, professionalism, and intellect, packaged as populism to excite the gallery while insulting the intelligence of Ghanaians.
“You cannot mock fluency, diplomacy, and exposure today when those same qualities opened every political door for you yesterday,” he charged.
KOB reserved his fiercest criticism for Hon. Kwarteng’s claims of “sloppy leadership,” describing them as shameless and dishonest.
“Was Kwaku Kwarteng not Deputy Minister for Finance?” he asked. “Was he not seated in the engine room when budgets were approved, policies defended, and economic decisions taken? Did sloppy leadership fall from the sky after he left office or was he part of it?”
He accused the former minister of attempting to cleanse his hands of collective responsibility while rewriting history to suit his new political posture.
Calling the sudden demand for a “disrupter” an act of political cowardice, KOB questioned why this bravado was absent when Ghanaians were suffering.
“Where was this disruption when fuel prices were crushing transport operators? When the E-levy punished the youth? When the cedi collapsed and inflation was choking households?” he demanded.
“Disruption is not something you discover after defeat.”
“You cannot help build the system, benefit from it, defend it, and then return as a self-styled revolutionary when the consequences arrive. That is not disruption; it is political fraud,” KOB declared.
Defending former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, KOB said the former Vice President never hid, never dodged responsibility, and never insulted the public with empty slogans.
“Dr. Bawumia spoke. He explained. He faced the people even when it was uncomfortable,” he said.
“That is leadership. Not shouting from the sidelines after enjoying power.”
KOB concluded with a brutal warning to those, in his words, “playing games with Ghana’s future.”
“Ghana will not be built by demonising education, mocking diplomacy, or selling recycled anger as reform,” he said. “You cannot condemn the house while proudly admitting you helped design it.
Ghanaians deserve honesty, courage, and consistency not political convenience.”
The explosive rebuttal lays bare the deepening cracks within the New Patriotic Party, as internal power struggles over credibility, accountability, and the party’s post-election future turn increasingly bitter and confrontational.
Enock Akonnor is an experienced Ghanaian journalist, based in Kumasi and currently serves as the CEO and Managing Editor of www.leakyghana.com.
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