“If You Can’t Stand The Heat, Don’t Get In The Kitchen”

Monrovia-December 2, 2925: Deputy Minister for Public Affairs at the Ministry of Information, Cultural has sharply reacted to Bomi County Senator Edwin M. Snowe’ criticism of the Homing Program organized by the ruling Unity Party saying, “If you can’t stand the heat, don’t get in the kitchen.”

Addressing the regular press briefing of the Ministry of Information, Deputy Daniel Sando noted, “We want to use this public space to address some things we will not allow to go unnoticed. There are people who constantly complain that the Ministry of Information is attacking them. When we speak, they come after us but we don’t go after anybody.

“One lawmaker has gone as far as saying that constructing a political party headquarters ‘won’t put food on people’s tables.’ But political parties are the building blocks of our democracy, and that is why partisans have every right to contribute to their political institutions.

Sando noted, “Now, this same lawmaker has decided to attack the UP’s December 6 event. Yet when his friends from the CDC were breaking ground for their party headquarters, he not only attended but donated US$10,000.”

Deputy Minister noted, “He represents the people of Bomi County. If his argument is that political party headquarters don’t put food on the table, then he should have used that US$10,000 to provide bread and butter for the people of Bomi. What a contradiction.

In a rhetorical question, Sando said, “He supported the CDC for six years what jobs did the CDC create in that time? I challenge that senator: For six years, what jobs were created? Today, he is fasting and praying for the government to fall. Everything is about himself.”

“If he cannot acknowledge what this government is doing, the least he can do is keep quiet. When the road to Bomi was bad under the government he supported for six years, what did he say or do? Yet today, we are working to fix that road from St. Paul Bridge to Tubmanburg. If you can’t stand the heat, don’t get in the kitchen,” the Deputy MICAT boss concluded.