Former Deputy Food and Agriculture Minister, William Quaitoo, says he’s impatiently waiting for Ghanaians from the northern part of the country to inform him that they’ve pardoned him following his ethnocentric comment which landed him in trouble.
However, William Quaitoo, who’s also MP for Akim Oda, apologised after he was heavily criticised by residents in the Northern Region.
But groups such as the Dagbon Youth Association said the apology was not enough and must be rejected.
A Presidential Staffer, Clara Napaga Tia Sulemana, also waded into the controversy and said the apology offered by her colleague in government was not enough for an offense such as insulting an ethnic group.
In a Facebook post, Miss Tia Sulemana, who was the first government official to speak on the matter said the utterances by her colleague was befuddling.
Hon. Quaitoo, who could no longer contain the huge pressure that was piling up on him from several quarters including the NDC Minority in Parliament to resign, finally threw in the towel and tendered his resignation to the President on August 29, 2017.
Speaking in an interview on Starr FM yesterday, the MP said that he’ll only have his peace of mind if he gets to know that he’s been forgiven.
“I want to apologise to every Ghanaian for disappointing them, particularly my brothers and sisters in the north. I didn’t mean to insult them and I’ll never ever dream of insulting them because at least they contributed to shaping my life. I pray that they forgive me and my resignation to me I think was to save any further rancour that was a bit imminent and so I decided to resign to bring peace.
“I still apologise particularly to the President and everybody and I hope that they’ll forgive me. Those who rose up against me in the north, I’m still waiting for them to tell me that they’ve forgiven me, then I can have my peace…then I can rest.”
Story: Kofi Owusu Tawiah