Minister-designate for Information, Mustapha Hamid has promised to sanitise the discourse in Ghana's political environment should his appointment be approved.
Addressing members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament during his vetting on Thursday, Mr Hamid said, as the spokesperson for government and the President he would make it a priority to elevate political discourse in the country to a level where there will be no invectives against opponents.Â
He made the statement while responding to a question on whether he regretted some statements he made against former President John Mahama prior to the 2016 elections.
Mr Hamid, two weeks to the elections in an interview on Joy FM, described former President Mahama as an "unrepentant ethnocentric bigot".
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According to him, though the statement was an unpleasant one, he did not mean it as an attack on Mr Mahama but was only responding to similar attacks on his boss, Nana Akufo-Addo and thought it appropriate to reply in like manner.
However, "I regret the polluted political environment that allows people to make insulting comments and with your grace, if I am made the minister, I'll contribute my quota to ensuring that we [politicians] do not attack each other", he stated.
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