Of Amorphousness And Stinking Hubris

Hannah Tetteh 
Arrogance is not an attribute a minister of state should spot, especially in a country where governance is hinged upon decorum and decency. Unfortunately, it has become a byword for our Foreign Affairs Minister – the woman who is so finicky that she chooses which newspaper or radio station should interview her, even when such engagements are about the imperiled lives of Ghanaians abroad.

For those who know her or have had the misfortune of crossing paths with her, she exudes such stinking hubris they do not find her stewardship worthy of a plaudit and would rather post a negative testimonial about her. Ironically, she is a cabinet minister with the ears of the president.

Media practitioners on the airwaves, full-blooded Ghanaians, racially unmixed, had the rudest shock of their lives when Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister, Hannah Tetteh, mustered the effrontery to tell them in the face that she could not oblige them an interview.

Many Ghanaians had the rare opportunity of assessing the woman after her rude and insulting remarks to the media practitioners went virile on social media. That is the woman who is basking in an inordinate level of delusion of grandeur.

The disappointed media practitioners were rather directed by the fake Queen of Sheba to another radio station, one she is overtly in bed with. It is ironic that before her party came to power she found the studios of those she now snubs comfortable places to pass the nights.

Nobody cares a hoot about how Hannah Tetteh wants to lead her life. She can choose her boyfriends from any part of the country and engage such persons however she deems fit.

Fact is, she is a minister of state paid from the public kitty and therefore must conform to certain standards of engagements with the people of Ghana through the media. Her un-Ghanaian show of disrespect should end in her home and not in the public office she is holding, courtesy President John Mahama.

Let her continue with her insulting conduct and the people of Ghana would tell her more about herself spilling beans she thinks they do not know of. Blimey! Who the hell does she think she is that she should continue to put up such insulting behaviour?

No political regime has bred so much arrogant ministers in post-independent Ghana. The ilk of Hannah Tetteh can only belong to a government in which sincerity and veracity are endangered qualities.

What the journalists who called her sought to do when they called her was to find out the status of Ghanaians who are sojourning in South Africa against the backdrop of the xenophobic attacks by indigenes of that country. Theirs was not to find out about her undisciplined son whose alleged unbridled sexual misconduct made sour reading. It was hushed as soon as it hit the social media. In other jurisdictions she would have resigned her appointment.

It is pitiable that such a woman would be bestowed with such a critical state assignment. Cry a miserable government!