Thursday,
December 19, 2013
My good friends, I have had good cause to comment on the
veiled partisan politicking being done by the shit-tank called IMANI. And i
have been monitoring its public statements and posturing ever since it caught
my attention as a shit-tank and not the think-tank that I had expected it to be
at is formation.
Of late, the comments and outings by its leaders, Franklin
Cudjoe and Kofi Bentil, have cleared all doubts about their real political
motives. Shouldn't a proper think-tank be more interested in proffering ideas
and strategies for national development than setting itself up as a reactionary
force that is always alert to verbally attack the government for anything it
does?
And who knows what the leaders and functionaries of this
shit-tank are doing covertly to sustain the Mahama-loathing agenda that they
have put in motion all this while? No day passes by without anything
coming from Franklin Cudjoe and his team to confirm their notoriety as
politically mischievous characters. I have no respect for such characters.
Here is the latest in the array of nonsense coming from that
IMANI shit-tank President:
Think tank, IMANI Ghana says it is important for the general
public to know the Commercial Court's explanation for dismissing the suit
challenging the sale of SSNIT’s 90 percent stake in Merchant Bank to Fortiz.
The Court threw out the case brought by Mr. Andrew Awuni
challenging the sale of Merchant Bank to private equity firm, Fortiz. According
to the court, Mr. Awuni does not have the locus to challenge Fortiz.
But speaking to Citi News, Executive Secretary of IMANI
Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe said ''if the judgement doesn't say who therefore has
locus then there will be serious gaps in our laws indeed.''
''...irrespective of how they go, there are dark clouds that
will be hanging around the necks of the people who will manage this bank
[Merchant],'' he added.
Mr. Cudjoe said also that despite the ruling, his outfit and
other interested parties will continue to take on an advocacy role to ensure
transparency.
''Be as it may, I think these are matters that can still be
commented upon and an advocacy to let people understand that issues of
transparency do matter to everybody who wants to hold himself or herself as an
interested party of a publicly owned entity.''
What explanation again is Cudjoe asking for after the Judge
had made it clear why she dismissed the suit? For purposes of clarification and
reiteration, here is what every sane person needs to know about the judges'
verdict:
"Judge Sophia R Bernasko Essah said granting Mr. Awuni
locus will be tantamount to power parity and a usurpation of the Board’s powers
by any SSNIT contributor."
Is it the language that Franklin Cudjoe doesn't understand to
know that the judge has already given her reason/explanation for her verdict?
Let me simplify matters for him and those politically mischievous characters
politicizing this matter and, therefore, investing themselves in it to sustain
their Mahama-loathing negative politics.
Awuni has been told that he doesn't have the right to do what
he is doing because he doesn't belong to the group that has the right to
institute court action against SSNIT. He may be a contributor (I wonder how,
because he worked at the Ghana News Agency, even as a stringer, when I was a
full-time journalist there, and thanks to the News Editor's magnanimity, got
recommended to enter the Ghana Institute of Journalism and emerged with good
performance to find his niche in public life, where his relationship with SSNIT
must have been severed. He served under Kufuor and wasn't contributing to
SSNIT. Let him prove me wrong).
So, the Court said that he doesn't have the LOCUS (neither a
Board member of SSNIT nor a Trustee) to be able to institute such a legal
action. This is a pure matter of law, not misguided politics of the kind that
the Merchant Bank issue has wrought among the Mahama-hating elements!!
Awuni has given notice of appealing against the verdict,
which some of us are quick to dismiss as the desperate acts of a disappointed
political activist.
What about the Court's decision is not clear? Does the Court
even have any obligation to explain its decision or be accountable to anybody
like Franklin Cudjoe?
Indeed, our kind of democracy is giving too much room to all
manner of people to test the patience of well-meaning Ghanaians. And to imagine
that such a demand will come from someone claiming to belong to a think-tank!!
How much thinking do they do at IMANI?
I shall return…
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