Calls resignation of Presidential staffer hypocritical-Bukarson
Napaga Tia Sulemana, a Presidential staffer who has for the past days received intense pressure to resign due to a social media joke that went bad has been advised to ignore the meaningless calls and focus on her duties in the office.
In a Facebook post, the young staffer wrote “Those of you who usually meet me at events and immediately want to submit your CV for employment, this nonsense should end in 2017,”.
The post went viral, and many people have called for her resignation from the office she serves because the post was seen as a meas of insult as well as reducing the efforts of her party youth who worked with all efforts to bring the current government to power.
Howevwer, Listowell Yesu Bukarson, the Executive Director of The Press Foundation (TPF) the people calling for her sanctioning are acting hypocritically.
He stated, “I think the young lady, even though has apologized stated the obvious”.
“Which serious unemployed person will storm events and programmes grounds to present a CV for a job” he queried.
“If you are serious for a job, you will package your CV, book appointment where need be, go to the appropriate offices, submit same, make a case for why you need XYZ job at an interview where available and then take it from there” He added.
He further said, “the Presidential staffer, to all intent and purposes is as busy as any other Ghanaian worker, or even busier especially at functions, so she might even drop or lose your CVs if you deliver them to her at such busy national events”.
“So yes, even those she used the wrong platform to express her harbored frustrations, I think she stated the obvious and the hypocritical political twists put to her post is needless and shameful” Mr. Bukarson said.
“In any case why do we think that the punishment for a slip by any government official is resignation”, He asked.
“If we set that kind of precedence, we will end up asking the President himself to resign office one day. It’s inimical to building experience to propel our great nation. He added.
Mr. Bukarson said the media should be very discerning in their reportage on such agenda-centered stories because “for me, this call for her resignation didn’t need to attract such magnitudes of media attention because in the end it’s only tantamount to creating a storm in a tea cup”
“Its much-ado-about nothing”. He stressed.
“We have a nation to build, and we must focus on keeping government on its toes by pushing it to commit to its manifesto promises”. The International Freelance Journalist advised.
Ghanaguardian.com
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