Wednesday,
November 12, 2014
Folks, I have been assessing
issues regarding all the demonstrations by pro-NPP organizations and others
against the Mahama-led administration all these years. Despite these
demonstrations, nothing shows that the government has bowed to the pressure
being mounted on it to do things differently. Those organizing the street
demonstrations have relented and are going about things as if they have no
other means to effect any change than such actions. And a critical assessment
of the forces behind such demonstrations reveals that it is the NPP that is
stage-managing and teleguiding it all. Why are these Mahama loathers so daft? Can
they not choose better means to influence the electorate and help us grow our
democracy?
Let me be very blunt to say that
the systemic problems militating against Ghana’s development are not being
solved because of many factors, particularly those based on the negative Ghanaian
mentality and attitudes. You already know what the “Pull-Him/Her-Down” syndrome
entails. Beyond that is the pervasive tendency of dissembling—those openly
criticizing corruption hiding behind smokescreens to perpetrate that very act.
Corruption is everywhere and cannot be eradicated because it is the “in-thing”.
Our politicians are enmeshed in
it; our traditional leaders benefit from it (otherwise, why should there be
chieftaincy and land disputes all over the place?); our public officials cannot
survive without it; and those in private business cannot escape it because
their private businesses intersect with public office holders who milk the
system dry. No private entrepreneur can succeed without the support of the
public sector, which is why collusion becomes attractive to deepen corruption.
Our country is still on its
knees, not because those claiming to be its redeemers haven’t had the chance to
rule but because both the redeemers and the “destroyers” are united with a
common agenda to fleece the system. We have had many governments over the
years, none of which can be distinguished from the other and given credit for
doing anything spectacular to make any difference.
In this 4th Republic,
we have had both the NDC and NPP rule the country with nothing to draw any line
between them except that the NDC has had a longer tenure. How Rawlings ruled Ghana
is known. What Kufuor did couldn’t reduce the Rawlings phenomenon to absurdity,
which explains why the electorate twice rejected the NPP and its Akufo-Addo at Elections 2008 and 2012
and will continue to do so for as long as they don’t see anything drastically
different coming from him and his cabal.
Within this context, then, it is
clear that all the agitations being spearheaded by the NPP against the
Mahama-led administration won’t register anything commendable. We have been
bugged by street demonstrations of all kinds ever since it became clear that
the NPP couldn’t prevail over the electorate to be put in power, Cast your mind
back to all that happened when they lost Election 2008, which would be repeated
when their sad fate was confirmed by the outcome of Election 2012.
They have refused to face reality
and are expending energy and resources trying to force a river to flow
upstream. That is why they have formed all kinds of associations and mushroom
groupings with the sole aim of raising dust to destabilize the system. They
have also chosen to infiltrate all identifiable civil society groupings to sow
their seed of discord therein just because they are not in power and want to
use every satanic means to make the country ungovernable.
We saw what they did when they
lost Election 2012, forming the “Let My Vote Count Alliance” to foment trouble.
Then they shifted gear and passed the baton on to others such as Alliance for
Accountable Governance (AFAG). There are many others that are not worth my
bother because they cannot do anything to change the situation. It’s just like
a duck picking a bone in the presence of a dog. Why should the dog fret, knowing
very well that all that the duck can do is to lick that bone and leave it for
the dog to claim?
President Mahama was legitimately
elected to rule Ghana and is doing so. No amount of intimidation, foul play in
the political game, or empty threats will change the equation to favour his
opponents. If they were wise, they would choose better weapons than street
demonstrations to undermine him.
Here, then, comes my beef: What
have all these Mahama loathers achieved so far through their street
demonstrations and political waywardness? Nothing!!
Their inability to see things
from a wider angle so they can refine their political machinery portrays them
as desperate power seekers who will chafe, huff and puff for nothing. That is
why I find it difficult to rationalize their persistent recourse to street
demonstrations. The latest in their arid schemes is the street demonstration to
be held by AFAG, which the police administration has authorized to be held
tomorrow, November 12, under the theme "Aagbe
Wor" (A Ga expression, meaning “They are killing us”).
This
is a throw-back to the useless demonstrations held by Akufo-Addo and his
Alliance for Change in the 1990s against Jerry Rawlings and his PNDC. Nothing
fruitful resulted from such open displays of notoriety. Innocent lives of young
Hogar and others were lost, which Akufo-Addo would unconscionably turn round to
exploit as an act of his human rights activism. Yet, when 44 innocent Ghanaians
were murdered by the beastly Yahaya Jameh regime in Gambia at the time that he
was a high-ranking government official, he couldn’t do anything to seek justice
for the victims and their relatives.
Such
a character is behind all the useless agitations going on. That is why he
hasn’t been appealing to the voters and won’t. Can he not learn any useful
lesson to use better means to reach out to the electorate? Why is he fixated on
violent means to achieve his childhood ambition of becoming Ghana’s President
“at all costs”?
Folks,
having monitored all the agitations against anything NDC in this 4th
Republic, I can confidently say that what the NPP and its lackeys have chosen
as their trump-card for seeking political power is laughable. These people are
not politically sensitive or mature. They are constantly giving signals that
they don’t know how to do politics to be relevant to the Ghanaian cause.
I
want to say at this point that their penchant for militancy will end up having
the boomerang effect that will keep them in the political wilderness for a
longer period than the 30 years that doomed them until Kufuor won political
power in the 2000 run-off. The fact that the NPP couldn’t go it alone at that
time should even have alerted them to their moribund status. Need I say more?
I want to conclude that all these
demonstrations by the anti-Mahama elements haven’t changed the situation. The
government has dug in and not budged to their waywardness. They haven’t in any
way succeeded in changing the situation to their advantage despite all the
heavy investments that they have made thereof. Until the government bows to
their pressure, there is nothing to make me think that such open displays of
rogue politics are worth anybody’s bother.
Thanks to comments from Dan
Botwe, MP for Okere, and the childishness of Gabby Otchere Darko, Dominic Ntiwul,
and many others spearheading the NPP’s political mischief, we know what their
intricate network of anti-Ghana agenda is. They think they can destabilize the
country to put themselves in power, forgetting that removing them from power is
far easier than it will be for an NDC government. If they want to test it, let
them try it!!
In truth, this 4th
Republic is the brainchild of the NDC and will remain so. If the NPP people
think otherwise, let them not go far. They should just find out why it is
difficult for their loud-mouthed, empty braggarts who condemn everything about
the 1992 Constitution and the parameters of the 4th Republic but
cannot initiate any move to change the Constitution or to get Parliament to
amend the Transitional Provisions. Cowards!!!
If history serves me right, let
me say that the 1969 Constitution was tactically or strategically masterminded
by the anti-Nkrumah elements to serve their purposes; but they didn’t last in
power because of the undeniable fact that they were (and still are)
objectionable. They are an anathema to the true Ghanaian spirit. If you doubt
it, just do some research on what they did to oppose everything progressive
that the Great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah conceived and initiated. Had they had
their own way, Ghana would have been more under-developed than it has been all
these years. These are despicable characters not to be entertained anywhere.
They are the germ destroying the Ghanaian nutrient!! So much for them for now.
I shall revisit this aspect soon.
Let the AFAGs, Franklin Cudjoe
and his IMANI-Ghana, other so-called civil society groupings, lackeys in the
mass media, drooling and frustrated public servants, the unconscionable leaders
of organized labour, and many others who think that they are not making it because
President Mahama and his government have closed the doors to them go about
politics the way they deem fit. In the end, they will remain where they are and
chafe all the more.
If these self-righteous people
were politically savvy, they would use better means to reach out to the
electorate. Street demonstrations are the basest and won’t help them. Oh, how I
wish they would use better means to remove the NDC from power. Ghana deserves
better than these political maladroits!!
I shall return…
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