On 16th April, 2014, Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, madam Dzifa Gomashie, posted on her Facebook wall, a picture of herself eating ‘waakye’ in her office with fork and knife.
In her proud and elated mood, she added the below text and picture:
Tin kon kon kon tin kon!
Having lunch in the traditional and culturally aware way. The leaves add flavour and aroma plus it is biodegradable unlike “take away” and polythene bags. One love!
Critics who felt the honourable minister’s conduct smacked off inconsistency in her bid to demonstrate how culturally inclined or ‘Ghanaian’ she is, lambasted her needlessly. The main issue her critics had with her was not the fact that she ate in leaves as a minister but her use of the cutleries – the combination is a no, no, no, in the opinion of many.
Also, some think it’s ethically and professionally bankrupt for Hon. Dzifa Gomashie to eat lunch at her office desk. It raises question of, doesn’t the ministry have a staff common room or an isolated room solely meant for eating at the ministry.
How would the Hon minister feel if a very important Diplomat or personality visited her just after she finished eating the ‘waakye’ – as the smell of the ‘waakye’ reeked the whole office? Or what if some of the oil from the stew in the ‘waakye’ dripped and soiled an official document which has already been signed on behalf of Ghana and another foreign donor, Diplomat or country?
As though the honourable minister wants to tease her critics who critiqued her for using cutleries to eat as a proponent and an advocate of our culture, see the picture and text she posted on her Facebook wall today 5th May, 2014:
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