Obed Asamoah

thumb Obed Yao Asamoah (born 6 February 1936) is a Ghanaian lawyer, academic and politician. Asamoah was the longest serving foreign minister and Attorney General of Ghana under Jerry Rawlings from 1981 to 1997. Asamoah was educated at King's College London and at Columbia University. Quotes It was politics of impunity that wantonly destroyed a hotel built with a loan of about $6 million close to an election. This is extreme contempt for public opinion and the human rights provisions of the Constitution. At the level of the most irreducible idiomaticity, Ghana is broke. Your nation is radically broke. So broke, the Speaker of Parliament has publicly warned, gavel in hand, that we may not be able to pay the salaries of public sector workers in the next three months. If I were the Attorney-General,I will take action only when there is evidence of preparation to carry out a coup. If somebody is only talking, I will just take it to be over-excitement. I won’t go arresting people for that. It was quite obvious to me that he wanted Professor Mills because he thought he could control him but when Mills got the leadership and won power, he played an independent role which did not please former President Rawlings. That is why he started attacking him. Hard work and honesty is a huge problem here in Ghana, we are not prepared to make the right sacrifices, we are prepared to enjoy without putting the hard work required for such enjoyments. Take tourism for example this is a labour intensive area that can generate lots of jobs for the teeming of the country.” I don’t think I appreciate what he is proposing. If there is a re-run for the parliamentary elections in Buem, and SALL is not part of Buem, how is that going to take place? Unless they are proposing that they are going to make SALL part of Buem, which I don’t think is justified. “I don’t understand what they are trying to propose. The people of SALL are in Guan right now, and the Guan District that was created is for the people of SALL so what is needed now is for a constituency so that by the next election they can have a parliamentary candidate; that for me is more feasible. External links Category:Lawyers from Ghana Category:Academics from Ghana Category:Politicians from Ghana Category:Government ministers Category:1936 births Category:Living people Category:Columbia University alumni