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ET Mensah, former Minister of Water Resources, Works and Housing
• Former minister ET Mensah praises his tenure as government minister
• He says he was the least worried when in 2012 ex-president John Dramani Mahama “pulled him out”
• He recently made critical remarks on the state of the party
Former Minister of Water Resources, Public Works and Housing Enoch Teye Mensah, commonly known as ET Mensah, revealed he didn’t care that then-President John Dramani Mahama, the forfeited his ministerial post when he won the 2012 election.
GhanaWeb has been monitoring the comments he made when he appeared on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana show late last week to discuss issues with the Saglemi housing project, which is currently the subject of of criminal proceedings.
Host Paul Adom-Otchere asked him if he was “unhappy that President Mahama has changed you from the Ministry of Public Works and Housing?
ET Mensah replied, “No I wasn’t at all, why should I be miserable? “
A follow-up question as to whether he wished Mahama “let you complete Project Sege before you left the ministry?” elicited the response: “Would you like this? Wishes are not horses, otherwise everyone will ride.
“So if the man says this is the man I want to work with, you just have to put your hand up and walk away.”
After winning the 2012 election, President Mahama redeployed three top ministers from the Mills era to the presidency, the trio later becoming known as the “Three Wise Men”. Apart from Mensah, the other two were the current Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin and Cletus Avoka.
ET Mensah has defended his role in the birth of the Saglemi Housing project while denying claims by some party members that the project should be carried out in phases.
Following his recent critical remarks on the party and some members, a petition has been submitted to the party hierarchy to investigate the former mayor of Accra and Minister of Youth and Sports for anti-party conduct.
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