Ghanaian movie Producer, Socrate Safo has lambasted Yvonne Nelson and other Ghanaian celebrities who mounted pressure on President Akufo-Addo to make a statement on the EndSARS protests.
There have been weeks of protests in Nigeria by the youths demanding that a police unit is totally disbanded.
The Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has been accused of murder, extortion, and other abusive acts against young Nigerians.
In a live broadcast on Sunday, The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu announced the dissolution and said the personnel in that unit will be redeployed.
However, the youths were not satisfied and continued protesting.
The protests turned violent when security forces clashed with protestors.
Yvonne Nelson, Nana Aba Anamoah and Lydia Forson demanded President Akufo-Addo who doubles as the ECOWAS Chairperson to comment on the happenings in Nigeria.
Socrate Safo questioned the logic in particularly Yvonne Nelson’s tweet.
”Our President must show leadership on this matter else he becomes complicit in the senseless killing of innocent and defenseless protesters @NAkufoAddo”, Yvonne Nelson tweeted.
Explaining why President Akufo-Addo delayed in releasing an official statement on the Nigerian situation, the movie producer stressed any “sensible leader doesn’t talk by heart”.
”There is something called diplomacy. In diplomacy, you don’t talk by heart in public…Presidency, they use common sense. They study the terrain. They sniff. They have people who do all this, who advise.”
”They’re excited to talk. There is a difference between condemning something as a celebrity and the difference between calling on the President to talk. The excitement is not about the fact that we’re condemning what is going on but the excitement aspect is having the guts that you’re taking the advantage of the freedom you have to call on your President like he’s your child, that he should go and talk”, he fumed.
