The General Secretary of the Ghana
Medical Association (GMA) Dr. Frank Serebour is not backing down and says he
does not regret insulting one of the communicators of the governing National
Democratic Congress (NDC).
Last Friday, in an interview on
Accra based Hot FM, he attacked the NDC representative on the Show who
said “Ghanaians were tired of doctors.”
According to Dr Serebour, the
comments he made, which have created a media frenzy, were not misplaced as he
was only saying things the NDC communicators say themselves.
“We need to let them (government
communicators) know that we can equally respond in their language but we
restrain ourselves because we respect ourselves,” he said.
“I won’t retract them…I have not
regretted…I think that at a point in time you have to let people know that you
can also get to that level. So I’m not ready to retract. I have not regretted
the insults I hurled on him.”
Dr. Serebour said that insults were
not the “bona fide” property of the NDC although they treated them us such, not
expecting to be responded to when they intimidate others.
“Sometimes some people take insults
as their bona fide property, so they can at all-time insult but you cannot
insult them. On this particular programme, there was NDC Communicator who was
on the programme; [Kwame] I had been called to talk and was standing on the
other side of the line. He wouldn’t even allow me to talk…So I went down on him
and I don’t regret it.
There has been a standoff between
the government and the doctors who are on strike to push their demand for
better conditions of service.
The doctors’ demands, which include
up to 100 gallons of fuel allowance a month, were leaked to the media over the
weekend.
The GMA argue that they are entitled
to everything they are demanding given the excessive allowances given to
government officials.
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