Wednesday,
February 12, 2014
Folks, I am more than angry at
how this Dr. Sekou Nkrumah is abusing the traditional Ghanaian hospitality to
behave as if he is a force to reckon with in Ghanaian politics. I have had the
occasion to take him on and will continue to do so as long as he fails to
realize that by his own miscalculation, he is a complete wash-out in
contemporary Ghanaian politics. By failing to know his bearings, he is neither
worth being accorded respect as an Nkrumahist or anything else nor given any
room to register his notoriety as a political bat.
He has flirted with all the
political fronts and established himself in the end as a nonentity. He is
confused, unaccomplished, unfulfilled, and a complete nuisance!! It is all the
more annoying when one considers the fact that his return to the NDC fold hasn’t
even been acknowledged or endorsed by anybody. So, what does he think of
himself to warrant this high degree of nuisance that he exhibits all over the
place?
No room should be created for
such a bugbear in our democracy. It is unacceptable for him to disturb our
peace of mind. I have in mind his latest nauseating utterance, begging
Ghanaians to forgive him for supporting ex-President Mills and the incumbent
John Mahama.
His latest gibberish confirms it
all. (See: http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=300525).
Who the hell does this manic
depressive Sekou Nkrumah think he is? On a lighter note, though, I might tone
down on my lambasting of him because he is a classic example of the failings of
our democracy!!
But even then, there is every
justification for picking him apart on the score of all the disgusting
utterances he has been making ever since he found a way to know the workings of
contemporary Ghanaian politics without doing anything concrete to make any
positive impact.
And in this opinion piece, I am
bent on tearing him apart. No holds barred; no apologies.
The reality presented by him is
too annoying to accommodate; but we will have to accommodate it so as to make
us re-align ourselves with the paradigm that the Kwame Nkrumah stature in
Ghanaian politics has established.
Indeed, our late Osagyefo Dr.
Nkrumah did his best to prove that “the black man is capable of managing his
own affairs” but the truth is there for all to see. In Africa—where the black
man reigns supreme—where is the evidence to substantiate the Great Osagyefo’s stentorian
political rhetoric?
Clearly, he couldn’t even
safeguard his own political kingdom against destabilization and consequent
destruction, which made it easy for his opponents to lure him out of Ghana to
facilitate his overthrow on February 24, 1966. And that date is fast
approaching to remind us of how Nkrumah’s vision for the African Personality
just vanished with the wind.
Mind you, I am a strong proponent
of what Nkrumah stood for; but the reality of the circumstances under which he
functioned in those days won’t blind me to the fact that he wanted Ghana to fly
without knowing that Ghana hadn’t yet developed wings (thanks to Gen. Albert
Kwesi Ocran, part of the groups of cowards masterminded by Kotoka and Afrifa to
wend Nkrumah into exile with their “Operation Cold Chop”).
Friends, Nkrumah had lofty ideas
and implemented some to establish the foundation for Ghana’s development; but
he lost big time because he failed to factor the machinations of his detractors
into his grand scheme. Any political leader who does so ends up being a mockery
of the very fortifications that he might have in mind against his detractors.
Nkrumah failed to be ahead of the curb and suffered the ignominious impact—and
passed it on to Ghana, which is why the country hasn’t rediscovered itself long
after his removal from office. A painful reminder of good intentions gone awry.
Against this background, it is
more than nauseating for a biological product of Nkrumah to rub salt in our
wounds. Sekou Nkrumah has so far confirmed my disdain for him as a misguided
and unenlightened offspring of the Great Osagyefo who doesn’t know anything
about his father’s role in the fate that has befallen Ghana ever since he
pushed the button to put Ghana on the internal political map—the first country
to assert independence and to pave the way for others to throw off the yoke of
European colonialism.
Sekou Nkrumah is a huge disgrace
for not known ing where to pitch. He began as a member of the CPP, which might
not be as strong as his father’s brand of that party but which somehow still
held high the flag of Nkrumahism.
By a quirk of circumstance, he
found fault and moved to the NDC, lending support to ex-President Mills and
earning the appointment to be in charge of youth development in Ghana. In
office, he proved incapable of performing tasks and came across as a misfit. He
realized it himself but hid under the cover of “freedom of speech” to go for
the foolhardy (not the audacious) as he turned his guns on the finger feeding
him only to lose out big time.
Realizing his folly and knowing
very well how he had lost his bearings in the pro-Nkrumahist arena (including
the NDC, which is closer to Nkrumah than to Danquah-Busia), he had no option
but to pursue his agenda of self-destruction, which sent him into the camp of
the NPP. But it didn’t take long for his status as a political liability to be
confirmed. His marriage of convenience with Akufo-Addo and his NPP would later
turn him into a political bat—neither here nor there.
And he really lost control of
himself, taking the most ludicrous action to break away from the NPP and return
to pick the pieces in the NDC. Indeed, no one in the NDC will accommodate him
anymore, knowing very well that he is a dirty, empty barrel, making the most
noise and acting as a dangerous rolling stone gathering no moss. No one needs
such a liability. He has washed himself out and is relevant only when it comes
to making senseless statements of no important political benefit to any of the
political parties in Ghana.
Truly, Sekou Nkrumah is a disgrace
to his own father, his siblings, and the entire political edifice of Ghana,
which is why I laugh him to scorn any time he opens his mouth to comment on
political developments in Ghana.
Probably, the manic depression
that has been his lot for many years now, emerging when he was living in Egypt
and calcifying when he made the decision to relocate in Ghana, has now reached
an incurable point. Such a character deserves pity. I have seen the memoir that
he has written about himself, which is nothing but a re-affirmation of my poor
opinion of him as a spoilt child who doesn’t know that he owes Ghanaians a huge
debt of gratitude for accommodating his inanity all this while.
In other countries, he would have
been disposed of. I am being very politically correct here because those who
suffered the scourge of his father’s autocracy are still alive and could have
dealt with him but for their kind heartedness. Against this background, if
Sekou deceives himself that he is anybody to regard in the workings of Ghanaian
politics, he shouldn’t be surprised when stopped in his stride. He is abusing
the traditional hospitality.
Interesting enough, his more
accomplished siblings (and I have in mind Dr. Francis Nkrumah, formerly of the
Noguchi Memorial Centre, Gamel Nkrumah, and Samiah Nkrumah, Chairperson of the
fast-dying CPP) are in control of themselves and not disparaging their father’s
image as this Sekou does.
Now, let me make it clear that if
Sekou thinks that Ghanaians value him as a political force to reckon with—which
might deceive him into his current slide into stupidity by “begging” them for
his lending support to the late Mills and the incumbent President John
Mahama—hew will be working really hard to end the chapter on his life as the
only living being from the Nkrumah lineage to bring so much opprobrium to a
family that has for long been cherish ed by the world.
If Sekou needs help to regain his
balance upstairs, he should seek it outside the realm of partisan politics. I
don’t know what he has prepared himself for in life, but I am given to know
that whatever that preparation may be, it hasn’t helped him realize his worth. Probably,
this realization is the catalyst for his manic depression. But he won’t be
allowed to over-stretch his personal inadequacies to the national realm.
All said and done, this kind of
character stands out as the unfortunate product of our kind of democracy. He
needs to know that his real root is in Egypt, which has been in turmoil all
these years. With the kind of history behind it, Egypt suddenly attracts more
attention than Ghana does and what it is going through now should engage Sekou
more than the stable environment that characterizes Ghana’s politics.
If he has any apology to give, he
should go to Egypt and render it to the Establishment as a hybrid who is
suffering a lot of pain because neither system can help him realize his
humanity. But if he persists on making himself the bull’s eye in Ghana, he will
be hit soon!! No more, no less!! Ghana doesn’t need his kind.
I shall return…
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