Henry Nana Boakye calls Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa a ‘thief’ at NPP protest

Henry Nana Boakye used an opposition demonstration to launch a sharp verbal attack on Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, accusing him of trying to deflect attention from his own conduct by pointing fingers at others. Speaking at the New Patriotic Party’s Yɛ Gye Yɛ Sika demonstration, the NPP’s Second National Vice Chairman compared Ablakwa to a pickpocket who raises the alarm about theft to distract from himself. “Okudzeto is behaving like the thief who is in Kejetia or Makola who every day will be saying ‘thief, thief, thief’, meanwhile he himself is a thief,” Boakye said. The remarks came as demonstrators criticised the minister over controversies involving the Foreign Affairs Ministry and called for accountability. The protest reflected the NPP’s wider challenge to Ablakwa, who has faced allegations from political opponents over the ministry’s handling of matters including a South Africa evacuation project. Boakye’s choice of words was an accusation, not an established finding. The article reports that he made the claim at the rally; it does not provide evidence proving wrongdoing by the minister. The dispute also drew strongly partisan reactions, with commenters criticising both Ablakwa and the NPP, while others framed the controversy as a question of political accountability. The episode adds another public exchange to the political contest between the parties. At the demonstration, Boakye’s pointed comparison served as a rallying attack on the minister, while the underlying allegations remain part of a wider political dispute.