By Enock Akonnor (Managing Editor)
In a fiery and emotional tirade, Development Consultant and Youth Activist Emmanuel Osei Gyamfi has slammed the leadership of NPP, accusing them of criminal neglect and wasted opportunity following the death of Apostle Kwadwo Safo, the legendary inventor hailed as “Africa’s own Tesla.”
Reacting to former Vice President and NPP 2028 flagbearer hopeful, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s tribute calling Apostle Safo a pioneer of indigenous innovation, Gyamfi didn’t hold back.
“We love dead heroes. We ignore them in life and praise them in death. That’s the Ghanaian way and it’s shameful,” he thundered in a statement copied to the office of www.leakyghana.com.
Gyamfi said the late Apostle Safo created cutting-edge technologies that could have transformed Ghana’s industrial sector, but the NPP failed to offer him support or nationalize his innovations when the party was in power.
“We had a goldmine in our hands, and we let it slip through our fingers. Now all we offer are sweet words and condolences. Pathetic!” he blasted.
He recalled his tireless efforts to push for a strategic partnership between government and Apostle Safo while the inventor was alive.
“When NPP was in power, I spoke, I shouted, I wrote but no one listened!” he exclaimed.
“We owed a duty to nationalize and institutionalize Kantanka to make it accessible to millions of Ghanaian youth to acquire the skills and put to use which would have put Ghana on the world map as well as solve the problem of Youth unemployment.
Sarfo Kantanka was an NPP and so the party owed an obligation to have immortalized this Great man that I consider as gift from God.
Unfortunately, Kantanka just as many other Ghanaian owned businesses suffered under the NPP leading to our historic defeat that characterized the 2024 elections.
As part of the lessons going forward, the party as a matter of urgency and wisdom needs to choose New leaders who are business friendly and doers rather than rhetoric lovers to better its chances of winning the 2028 elections from particularly at the Flagbearer and National leadership positions”, he stated.
Now that the genius is gone, Gyamfi says it’s too little, too late.
“God’s gift to Ghana is gone. Leadership has failed us, and history will not be kind. The judgment will come!”
With raw emotion, Emmanuel Osei Gyamfi paints a disturbing picture of a nation that celebrates its innovators only after death, a country that may have just buried one of its greatest industrial minds without ever fully realizing his potential.
Source; www.leakyghana.com
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