Minority Leader Cassiel Ato Forson has cautioned his friend and Minister for Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong, against what he terms ‘personal attacks’ towards him.
Late last week, the minister and Ato Forson got into a fight over the Buffer Stock Company’s failure to pay its suppliers, who had been picketing outside the company’s offices.
A half-dozen Minority MPs confront the minister in a video that the media has access to, and he responds by telling them that they don’t need to bring the press to meet with him and that their picket is “inorganic.”
The minister’s exchange with Ato Forson is produced below
Bryan Acheampong: Don’t bring press to the reception
Ato Forson: This is the parliamentary press corps.
Bryan Acheampong: You are a leader, you are a Minority Leader….
Ato Forson: You like attacking me anytime you speak, that should stop. That should stop, let me address him…you like attacking people stop that. Stop attacking me, anytime you speak, you try to attack me. Stop that thing, stop that attitude of yours.
In the last public exchange between Ato Forson and Bryan Acheampong, the Minority Leader fired questions at the minister at the appointment’s committee sitting leading the minister to exclaim “Ei Ato! But you are my friend,” adding that he should be vouching for him not interrogating him.