Ghanaians react to Boris Johnson’s resignation on Joy SMS
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson makes a announcement at Downing Street in London, Britain, July 7, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls
UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson’s tenure got here to an quit on Thursday after he tendered a resignation.
A historic birthday celebration revolt over a chain of ethics scandals pressured him to step down.
It took the resignation of almost 60 members of his government — nearly 1/2 the payroll — for Johnson to in the end abandon his tries to hang on to strength.
His decision has induced conversations about whether or not such an instance in which a Public Officer or authorities appointee could willingly renounce over conducting misconduct.
On social media, mainly on Twitter, there have been requires President Akufo-Addo to emulate the United Kingdom Prime Minister.
The dialogue persevered on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show in which host, Winston Amoah, and panelists, Pharmacist & fellow, Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Kwame Sarpong Asiedu and Kwaku Antwi-Boasiako, a involved Ghanaian took a dive into the problem.
Expressing his views on the problem, Mr Antwi Boasiako cited that authorities officials may additionally want to resign or not based on their concepts and their motivation for being in office.
“It’s a depend of ideas. The bottom line is what motivates a person to get into public office. If the inducement is to serve people absolutely, then on every occasion you've got a state of affairs that stops you from being able to provide carrier, then you need to step down,” he stated.
He cited that within the case of Ghana, many humans’s motivation to serve in public office isn't within the hobby of the general public.
“The motivation is to go and serve their non-public, parochial interests and that’s why we might also never see such an example within the u . S . A .,” he said.
After his resignation, the Prime Minister insisted that he could maintain as a caretaker leader while the Conservative Party launches the process of selecting a successor.
Some senior figures in his party say even with the intention to be unsustainable, given the dwindling wide variety of humans inclined to paintings for him.
Others are already lining up to replace him. Party officers say they may announce the timetable for a management election by way of Monday.
Speaking in front of the well-known 10 Downing Street door, the same area wherein a lot of his predecessors introduced their very own resignation addresses, Johnson announced that he would be stepping down — with out truely pronouncing the words out loud.
“It is obvious now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that birthday celebration and therefore, a new top minister,” Johnson said.
“The procedure of selecting that new chief have to begin now,” he added, pronouncing the timeline may be announced next week.
In a signal that he is making plans to stay inside the workplace for so long as he can, Johnson announced he had appointed a new cupboard “to serve, as I will, till a new leader is in region.” Appointing new cupboard ministers approach that the government can keep to characteristic as he prepares to depart.
Johnson mentioned his attempts to stay on as chief and the way “painful” it's far for him to step down, but made no point out of the scandals which have proved his political downfall.
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