Frimpong Boateng is dispensable, even Jesus Christ was – Kofi Wayo

Kofi Wayo

Maverick Chuck Kofi Wayo is mad at what he says is a difficult to understand false culture of indispensability among Ghanaians when no man in the world can be held indispensable.

Even Jesus Christ was dispensable, he says.
“I do not understand why a nation believes that somebody is indispensable. I don't understand the sub-culture, even Jesus Christ, who the whole world depends on, he was not indispensable - he died. Did the world live? The world lived...” he told Radio Gold's Alhassan Suhuyini as he waded into the controversies surrounding the revocation of an honorary appointment handed the former Director of the National Cardiothoracic Centre at Korle Bu, Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng.

That culture of indispensability, Wayo argued, does not only promote “corrupted elitist ideas” but it is also false and primitive.

“Where did we get the idea that we are indispensable? And you've created a culture of deity in Ghana and the rest of Africa where people are above the law because of some status or where people are indispensable. Suppose Professor Boateng dies today, then what? Are you telling me there is no other guy in the whole ...world who's gonna replace this guy, is that what you people are saying? And I am shocked that these doctors whom we're supposed to respect, right, are prepared to let human beings die so that they can have their elitist ideas, some corrupted elitist ideas...”

According to Kofi Wayo, Prof Frimpong Boateng who lived in Germany, should know that “you don't work for a government organisation and you go and run for president. If he was a moral ethical person, he would have resigned, because that is the taxpayer's system. You don't use taxpayers' money and their time to go and run for president, so he should have known better.”

In justifying Frimpong Boateng's dismissal, Kofi Wayo said he should have been shown the door during the Kufuor administration, however former President Kufuor, he said, “... is not a moral ethical person so he didn't fire him,” “but in this government there seem to be some serious ethical sense – there are a few people in there who are ethical so firing him is the normal thing to do.”

“Professor Frimpong Boateng is not indispensable,” he maintained, saying it is only primitive people who think somebody is indispensable. He also wondered if the doctors would be protesting to God should Frimpong Boateng pass away.

He wants the doctors at the Cardio Centre who suspended their services Monday to protest the dismissal of their colleague and mentor to be arrested and prosecuted for manslaughter if their action led to any loss of life.

“See our institutions don't work. If these doctors allow somebody to die because of this hierarchy stuff, the BNI should go and arrest every one of them and charge them for first degree manslaughter or murder... They got to understand this is a society and we aren't playing with human life, do you understand, ...I know they are not well paid so it's hard for me to fight them or anything like that but you are hired to save human life and you better not let nobody die because you're going to pay for it. It's as simple as that.”