The NPP’s hypocrisy knows no bounds

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Gradually, the hypocrisy, treachery, and foolery that undergird the NPP’s political agenda are emerging to confirm opinions that the party doesn’t have what it takes to outdo any of the governments, especially the incumbent, that it has continued to waste its resources condemning.

But in consonance with the party’s grand agenda of using classical Greek sophistry as a major political weapon, we hardly expect anything to change for the better.

Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, National Chairman of the NPP, has just added more vim to such hypocrisy, treachery, and foolery. He has conceded that “two political terms, that is eight years, are just not enough to transform a country’s economy.”

Speaking on Election Headquarters on Joy FM on Friday, he stressed that it will be impossible to transform a nation within that duration:

“You cannot transform [an economy] in eight years. We will not transform a whole nation, a whole economy in eight years” (Myjoyonline, 8/24/12).

How will Akufo-Addo fight corruption? (Part II)

Thursday, August 23, 2012

The weird things that happen in government business (lumping together the Executive, Legislature, and Judiciary) can’t be tackled with this kind of self-glorification. We have continued to voice out our indignation to no avail.

Sadly, those entrusted with the responsibility to solve our country’s problems are more interested in compounding them. And they care less about the anger seething in the citizens.

Despite all the indignation being expressed at the Woyome scandal and the fact that this payment of judgement debt is a subtle means by some unscrupulous government officials and their collaborators in business to fleece the national coffers, little is being done to solve the problem.

How will Akufo-Addo fight corruption? (Part I)

Thursday, August 23, 2012

The NPP’s Akufo-Addo made an emphatic statement during his encounter at the IEA’s Presidential Debate that he is not corrupt, has never been corrupt, and will never bow to corruption. Let’s hear him:

“I am determined to fight corruption aggressively, and I can do so, because I am not corrupt, have never been corrupt, and will demand the same of my team. Accountability and transparency are the hallmarks of good governance. Ghana needs this, Ghana deserves this and I, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, pledge to deliver this to the good people of Ghana.”

Some NPP-oriented political zealots fawning over this pronouncement have been quick to regard it as “The 60 Words that Forever Altered our Political Landscape” (Reference: Stephen Kwaku Asare, Ghanaweb article, 8/23/12).

I cringe!! And for good reasons. Open declarations of this sort by politicians put me on the quivive; they don’t evoke relief. I don’t appreciate them because they mean nothing concrete to me. They are clear instances of the hot-headed rhetoric that has continued to mislead the citizens into dining with the devil at the helm of affairs.

The Chinese are no Father Christmas, Mr. President!!

Friday, August 17, 2012

President John Mahama seems to have settled in the groove well enough to steer the affairs of this country. Good for him.

What is not good for him, however, is the resurgence of the politics of insults in a political environment that remains hostile. Public discontent at the high cost of living and the persistent complaints at government’s inability to fulfill its 2008 electioneering campaign promises are other troubling issues. On top of it all is the perennial bad-blood relationship between the NDC and the NPP. How President Mahama handles the situation will go a long way to make or mar his political chances for Election 2012.

All too soon, though, he seems to be moving toward slippery ground, mindless of the harm that promise-making has so far caused to the government he has inherited from ex-President J.E.A. Mills.

The NPP can’t solve its credibility problem by denying it

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

As the electioneering campaigns for Election 2012 heat up, we don’t expect to see anything remarkably different from the strategies used by the functionaries of the various parties, especially the NPP that is hell-bent on undercutting the NDC as a means to regain political power.

Press conferences will continue to be the most appealing mechanism, especially to those I characterize as arm-chair critics of the incumbent administration. The NPP held one yesterday at which its Chairman, Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, set the tone on personal attacks.

If it were Akufo-Addo who had died…

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

I will raise a disturbing question as the framework for my opinion piece: If it were the NPP’s Akufo-Addo who had died, would the NPP leaders have swiftly and smoothly elevated his running mate (Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia) as their party’s flagbearer for Election 2012?

I have asked this question for a good reason, which I will explain soon in the light of some happenings over the past three weeks that have led me to conclude that Ghanaian politicians are a major cause for worry. By their unconscionable posture, they are doing nothing but leading the country astray.

Instead of flogging the dead “Asomdwehene”…

Saturday, August11, 2012

As is to be expected, those who have no concrete solution for solving the country’s problems are still fouling our air with their useless political rhetoric. They are still making utterances to annoy us.

Sekou Nkrumah is one of such idle-talkers whose presence on the political scene clearly confirms the shortcomings of contemporary Ghanaian politics. Let me say it for the umpteenth time that Sekou Nkrumah is an idle-talker who hasn’t made any concrete contribution toward solving Ghana’s problems and has no moral justification to continue making his presence felt. He is a nuisance.