Video of Osafo-Maafo Weeding Goes Viral: Ghanaians Divided Over His True Motive

• Senior presidential advisor Yaw Osafo-Maafo has caused a stir on social media after a video of him weeding hit the internet
• The 78 years old politician was weeding as part of the civil service week clean-up exercise
• However, the video has elicited mostly disapproving comments but also a few good comments from netizens

Senior Presidential Advisor Yaw Osafo-Maafo has divided the internet after a video of him weeding as part of the civil service week clean-up exercise went viral.

The video shared by Hype_Masters shows the 78-year-old senior politician bending down to cut a hedge at an undisclosed location for a few minutes before handing the machete to his security guard.

While he cut the grass and hedges, he received cheers from civil servants who took part in the exercise.

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According to the caption of the video, he was joined in the exercise by the Chief Director Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Dr Evans Aggrey-Darkoh.

But the video drew different comments from Instagrammers. While some commended the elderly politician for supporting the clean-up campaign, others said it was just a political stunt to win back popularity for the troubled government.

Here are some of the comments that greeted the short video posted on Instagram.

Kingarkoessel was not impressed, he posted:

“Oh forget them”

nine_welt also felt it was a wast of time:

"Masa make you people take your wahala away tswww sia banku"

yahyaatinga commented:

"Tactics paaa nie "

tink.tesh also mocked the video:

"No be Wetin need be this fix the country and tell Bawumia to not say that nonsense again. Build schools feeds schools produce for hospitals and stop telling us you want to build cathedral and use our money for gh card like mehn what’s going on in Ghana?"

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iamabofrapa made one of the rare comments of approval:

"We need more of this"

Ghana begins e-visa project: Starts installing systems at missions abroad

In a separate story, YEN.com.gh has reported that Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration is leading a phased project to install e-visa systems at all of the country’s missions abroad.

The foreign affairs ministry is collaborating with the Ghana Immigration Service with technical support from Orell- Füssli Security Printing Limited and the TGN Digital Security Limited for the project.

According to a post on the Facebook page of the foreign affairs ministry, the deployment of the e-visa systems for Ghana would be done in phases starting with the Ghana Missions in London and Berlin.

Source: YEN.com.gh