Sunday,
November 16, 2014
Folks, out of happenings reported
over the period, two have caught my attention for what they are: either plain
political mischief on display or roguery at its best being enacted.
1. "MAHAMA, NDC “STEALING” FROM THE STATE—AGYEPONG"
Member of Parliament for Assin
Central, Kennedy Agyepong, has accused President John Mahama and members of his
government of stealing from the state. According to him, the only agenda of the
government is to plunder the state of every resource: “The situation in Ghana
is so disgusting and appalling, you ask yourself if really there are leaders in
the country.”
“President Mahama and the NDC,
their idea of governance is stealing; everybody is stealing. They are
embezzling state funds as if there is no tomorrow,” the outspoken MP told the
US-based Sahara TV in an interview. (See:
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=335211).
MY COMMENTS
I know Kennedy Agyapong for what
he is—a buffoon of an empty braggart who is no stranger to us because he is
really STRANGE when it comes to decency in local and national politics. In
other words, he is one of the high-ranking rogue politicians on whose shoulders
the future of the NPP rests. Such a character will do only one thing, which is
to continuously dim the NPP’s light for as long as he uses rabble-rousing and
inanity as his main political weapon.
Where on earth can an MP make
such serious allegations without providing evidence to support them? What has
President Mahama led his government members to steal from the state? Where is
the proof that there is a concerted agenda by this government to steal public
funds and state assets? Can any of these people being maligned proceed to court
against this zany NPP politician?
If I were one of those on his
lips, I won’t hesitate at all to sue him and ensure that the matter is heard to
its logical conclusion. For as long as such characters go to town and spew
garbage without being taken to task, we shouldn’t expect any clean politics to
be done in the country. I wonder what the electorate in Assin Central have seen
in this lummox to elect him as their representative in Parliament. Is he really
a reflection of what they are? Is that what will promote the interests of Assin
Central? I wonder.
2. "GHANA’S ECONOMY HAS BECOME “BUY AND SELL”—CATHOLIC
BISHOPS"
The Ghana Catholic Bishops’
Conference is concerned about the “high cost of living [and] hyper-inflation”
and has called on the John Mahama-led administration to swiftly address it
since it is affecting “the family adversely.”
The Bishops noted in a communiqué
after their meeting in Accra, Saturday, that high cost of goods and services
coupled with a depreciating Cedi is making Ghana’s economy “fast becoming one
of buying and selling.” (See:
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=335182).
MY COMMENTS
Here come the “Men-of-God” in
long chains and cassocks who seem to have just woken up from a long hypocrisy-induced
slumber. Where have these Bishops been all these years not to know that Ghana’s
economy has always been a “buy-and-sell” one? It has been so ever since buying
and selling became an attraction. Let these Bishops tell me where in the world
buying and selling as a means to eke out one’s livelihood is not practised!!
The problem with these Bishops is
that they are quick to turn around already-known issues and colour them with
politically motivated sentiments in pursuance of the agenda that they alone
have set and wish they could prosecute to the full. Unfortunately for them,
their agenda is still-born.
Ghana’s economy is well known for
what it is—producing primary commodities that aren’t processed in the country
or consumed locally. Which of our main exports (cash crops and minerals or
lumber) are processed locally to prevent the petty trading (buy-and-sell) from
dominating the economic sphere? Do these Bishops not know why Ghana is still
what it is as a producer of primary commodities? Or why industrialization
hasn’t been preferred?
Any time these Bishops make
comments of this sort, they bewilder some of us because they can’t tell me that
they don’t know what the Great Osagyefo began in the country by way of
industrialization—small-scale industries dominating—or agriculture (Workers
Brigade, for instance), which his enemies torpedoed with the 1966 coup. Since
then, Ghana has been lost on the path of development. So, it is despicable for
them to turn round to conclude that the economy is a “buy-and-sell” one under
the Mahama-led administration. It is so more especially because of the tension
at the industrial front at the moment.
And when these “Men-of-God” come
put to brazenly talk about such issues and claim that corruption is thriving
under President Mahama, they force me to ask them a simple question: How are
they observing their cardinal principle of celibacy? If they can answer me
satisfactorily, I will bow to them.
WHAT, THEN?
Folks, we can see where all these
agitations and the brains behind them are heading toward; but for as long as
they becloud their minds with falsehood, the truth will always determine their
fate at the polls.
And after running around like
headless chickens in their rabid politicking to condemn President Mahama as
incompetent, some of them are now recoiling as they come face-to-face with
reality. None other but Mrs. Ursula
Owusu Ekuful reinforces it all to expose their stinking hypocrisy:
"The Member of Parliament
for Ablekuma West, Ursula (a known and vitriolic critic of the President),
praised government for the project admitting that “I cannot say that the
President has not done anything.” (Read
more at:
http://www.citifmonline.com/2014/11/16/mahama-inaugurates-new-school-deprived-okpoti/#sthash.ai7yPXTv.bZZHQJFQ.dpuf").
Folks, you can see in the
pictures how Ursula is beaming with smiles as she shakes hands with President
Mahama and also interacts with the AMA Chief Executive (people that she and her
NPP cabal members haven't ceased insulting at will to claim that they are
incompetent).Take a good look at the images to see things for yourselves and
wonder whether with such monumental accomplishments, the Mahama-led
administration can be accused of "sleeping-on-the job" or stealing
Ghana’s property as foolishly alleged by Kennedy Agyapong.
Only the “truth” should set us
free in Ghana. Who is to tell it, especially when evidence about that “truth”
exists and draws attention to itself but is side-stepped? Certainly, not the
rogue politicians. Our bane!
I shall return…
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