Blakk Rasta, a media figure and musician, expressed his opinion that the late Deputy Minister of Finance, John Kumah, does not qualify as a hero to him due to his government position.
He argued that Kumah should not be considered a hero due to his association with President Akufo-Addo, whose governance led to financial failure and hardship for the people of Ghana.
He proceeded to declare that because Kumah did not have the courage to step down from the Akufo-Addo-led administration in order to clear his name from their wrongdoing, he [Blakk] considers the deceased as a “hypocrite”.
Blakk Rasta, on the UrbanBlend show, advised Ghanaians to avoid celebrating deceased individuals who did not make a positive impact on the country during their lifetime.
“John Kumah was not a hero. As long as he served under the dirty dictator, Nana Akufo-Addo and never resigned, he is not an honorable person to me. I understand he left six children and a wife. I sympathize and empathize with them but a bad man is a bad man. We have to stop this foolishness of all of a sudden eulogizing and praising dead people. A dead hypocrite is still a hypocrite.”
“When we start shaming and naming all these dead people who have not served the nation in any good measure when they are alive, they will learn a lesson. People who visited us with harm and danger when they were alive. The moment they die, they become Saint Gabriel. I am not part of those people,” he remarked.
