Vice Presidential candidate for opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has reacted to reactions on her forwarding of Prof. Ahwoi’s book.
Speaking on Citi TV’s The Point of View, the former Education Minister said she was “very surprised” at how some Ghanaians received her forward to “Working with Rawlings”, authored by Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi.
She said the reactions nearly made her question if “this is how polarised we have become.”
“This is not the first forward I have ever written in my life but this is the foreword that has received such reaction.”
“A foreword is not a critique. It is not an introduction. It is not an analysis. When you are doing those kinds of assignments there are different ways you go about them,” she said.
“The foreword simply introduces the essence of the book,” Prof. Opoku-Agyemang explained further.
Martin Amidu, the Special Prosecutor’s critique of the book was centered on Prof. Opoku-Agyemang’s foreword which he suggested was a calculated means to distort the political history of Ghana.
Mr Amidu said the book lacked the requisite veracity and rigour and hence an “unscholarly book” which she and the author wanted to profit from.
“The obviously deliberate factual inaccuracies I pointed out in the introduction to this critique, are clear demonstrations that she was either an unqualified editor, reviewer, foreword writer or she was knowingly participating in a grand conspiracy to present the unsuspecting reading public with twisted narratives against the subject victims of the narratives in the book,” Mr. Amidu wrote.
Working With Rawlings is an account of the time Prof. Ahwoi spent with former President Jerry Rawlings in governance.
Prof. Ahwoi served as Minister of Local Government and Rural Development from 1990 to 2001 under Rawlings administrations.
He also acted as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1997.