THEY ARE NOT MY CO-EQUAL-IMANI BOSS

Founding President of IMANI Ghana , Franklin
Cudjoe has directed a strong warning to the
Minister of Agriculture, Fifi Kwetey and a
communication member of the ruling NDC, Dela
Coffie to be cautious of their choice of words
against him .
Raging of words emanated between the deuce -
ace when Mr. Kwetey described # OccupyGhana [ A
pressure group headed by Franklin Cudjoe ] as
“ Hypocrite” with allegiance to the opposition New
Patriotic Party [ NPP] .
Franklin Cudjoe 's reaction to Fifi Kwetey ’s
‘ hypocrisy’ comment
Franklin Cudjoe , wrote on his Facebook wall on
January 10 , 2015; “ The Minister for Agriculture
says all the learned men in OccupyGhana are
‘ hypocrites’ . Without suggesting that he is quite
clearly describing himself, I wonder how he
would have earned his position had it not been
for this line of thinking .
“… It is institutionalized it would seem . If I were
him , I will be preparing my defense statements
against a possible OccupyGhana legal notice /
challenge to the financial mess his ministry has
caused all taxpayers as a result of fraudulent
deals with fertilizer subsidies and the fraud
ongoing in the cocoa sector.
But there is more . On policy direction and vision
in the wake of the EPAs , a serious -minded
minister of agriculture would be minded about
how to ensure Ghanaian agribusiness take
advantage of the coming challenges . But he has
returned to his first love , vacuous propaganda
which got him his job and is executing to
perfection whilst making members of
OccupyGhana popular as clearly there is impact!”
he said
Annoyed by Franklin ’s post , Fifi Kwetey , who is
also the National Democratic Congress ( NDC)
Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Ketu South, and
a former Propaganda Secretary of the party , hit
back .
"While Franklin Cudjoe struggled with 3 years to
be able to pass his Economics, I used only a year
to get all " A " in my A - level subjects in
Achimota School , " NDC social media activist , Dela
Coffie, quoted him as saying .
However , Franklin has hit back at the duo after
insisting that , both Mr. Kwetey and Dela are not
his “ co- equal” .
below is Franklin ’ s comment on Facebook
Alhassan Suhuyini send this to Fifii Akwetey and
Dela Coffie- please tell them we are not
competing and they cannot compete on my turf!
They are not my co- equal !!!!Franklin CUDJOE is
founding President and CEO of IMANI Center
for Policy and Education , a Ghana - based
think- tank which sets out to achieve its mission
by subjecting any government policy that is
likely to have systematic implications for
development to basic ‘ value for money ’, ‘due
diligence ’ and ‘rational choice ’, ‘public choice ’
and ‘vested interest ’ analysis and then actively
engage in public advocacy to publicize the
results , with a view to promoting peace and
prosperity through human flourishing.
IMANI has been consistently ranked among the
top 10 think tanks in Africa and among the top
100 worldwide, out of a pool of nearly 10 , 000
organisations.
Cudjoe is a frequent commentator in print and
international broadcast media about Africa’ s
development including appearances on BBC , CBC,
Swiss and Swedish National TV , Austrian
National Radio and varied local Ghanaian
media , and has been published or quoted
severally in London’ s Daily Telegraph , The Wall
Street Journal (all three versions) , Bangkok
Post , Japan Times , South Africa’s Business Day ,
Rwanda Times , Kenya’s Business Daily , Nigeria’s
This Day, Washington Times , El Mercurio ( Chile) ,
La Republica ( Costa Rica ) , the Ottawa Citizen,
the San Francisco Chronicle, Netzeitung Voice Of
Germany .
He has won two John Templeton Foundation
awards for advancing the institutional
foundations of the free society in 2006 and the
inaugural Antony & Dorian Fisher $ 100, 000
award for the most innovative and dynamic
African think tank. He has been cited in the UK
House of Commons ’ debate on aid and
development in Africa and by South Africa’ s
Supreme Court Judge on patents and intellectual
property in 2005 and 2006 respectively .
Cudjoe debated sitting Tanzanian President
Mkapa on globalisation in 2007. In 2010, Cudjoe
led the World Bank Ghana - Africa region ‘s task
force to help shape the World Bank ’s strategy
for Africa for 2010- 13 . In 2010 Franklin was
consulted by the U. K ’s Prime Minister ’s office on
how to make effective use of British aid in
Africa.
He is co -author of “ The Water Revolution :
Practical Solutions to Water Scarcity”
International Policy Network press , 2006 “ Peace
and Prosperity through World Trade “and
“ Subsidizing Artemisinin - Based Combination
Therapies : A Preliminary Investigation of the
Affordable Medicines Facility – Malaria” .
Cudjoe is one of nine African think tank leaders
and Commissioners of “ The Zimbabwe Papers ” , a
blueprint which examines the causes of
Zimbabwe’ s social and economic problems and
offers urgent and practical reform that will
enable the country to become a thriving ,
peaceful and prosperous country .
Cudjoe currently sits on the Danish
International Development Agency’s board for
private sector , advising on a $ 75m private sector
support to Ghana .
Cudjoe is an Earhart doctoral fellow at
Buckingham University in the U .K ., an alumnus
of Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education,
the Atlas Economic Research Foundation ’s Think
Tank MBA programme and the Montreal
Economic Institute’ s Think Tank Training
programme .
He has a B .Sc . in Land Economy from KNUST. In
2010 Cudjoe was named a Young Global Leader
by the World Economic Forum in Davos ,
Switzerland. He was named a fellow of the
Africa Leadership Network in 2012, and the only
named Think Tank Leader in “ Top 50 Africans ”
List of the respected Africa Report Magazine in
2012. He is a member of the 2015 Class of the
Africa Leadership Initiative West Africa
( ALIWA ) , an initiative of the Aspen Institute .