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Opinions of Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Columnist: Clement Sangaparee

Bitter political infighting and national development – Part 3

Former president Rawlings pinched his finger and used the blood to sign the NDC manifesto Former president Rawlings pinched his finger and used the blood to sign the NDC manifesto

They have criticized you, they have doubted you, they have lied on you, they have done all they can do to LET OTHERS HATE you, but nothing they can do is to stop you from being who you are and that is killing them slowly. It is not what they call you.

It is what you respond to and that is why I say that ‘In the abundance of water, the fool becomes thirsty’. NDC was in power alright with an honest dynamic president working like a bull dozer delivering the goods to the envy of the violent prone NPP who campaigned vigorously on Ghana’s economy – on the other hand, the NDC was seriously divided and disorganized at its various branches nationwide.

Elections are won at the polling stations and those there were neglected while most party leaders were rather chasing money in order to get rich over night while targeting Cadres as their Number One enemies because of the unpalatable utterances of Jerry Rawlings, the Party Founder.

DIVIDE AND RULE MMDCE’S

At the district level or simply put, the constituency level, most MMDCE’s divided the NDC party into two with impunity because they had the cash and we then had those AGAINST THE MMDCE’S, AND THOSE WHO SUPPORTED THEM which was the Achilles heel of the NDC and so, the NDC as a party signed its DEATH WARRANT FROM THERE but who will listen to you as they even want you out of their mist in order to do their own thing and this is now the end result.

A humiliating defeat of 1.2 million votes difference against president Mahama on 7th December 2016. Now, where are those MMDCE’s? A good number of them including some former ministers of state have gone to Britain, America and Germany where they built their mansions to enjoy salads leaving those of us including the professional Backbiters behind to our fate. Now, I believe that all those who hate the articles I always write, would now understand me fully.

Therefore, if there had been a coup de’tat against Prez. Mahama, God forbid, these MMDCE’s and some ministers of state who left the country after the defeat of the NDC would equally have run away leaving us to our fate so, the professional Backbiters (Konkonsa People) in the NDC must learn from what I have said.

Never mind, Rawlings did not train us with money, he rather trained us with patriotism, Honesty, Justice, Accountability extreme fearlessness, and finally the TRUTH which most Ghanaians actually hate, so as a cadre who had been in the trenches with a Crusading Radical like Rawlings, this is exactly what I have been doing since 1984 to date 2017 amidst vicious opposition in my own party the NDC. My friend, try to learn the history of the NDC very well if you want to rise to the top-Is that clear?

THE RAWLINGS SIGNATURE WITH BLOOD IN THE YEAR 2000

Most members of the NDC including even some cadres did not understand the reason why former president Rawlings pinched his finger and used the blood to sign the NDC manifesto in the year 2000 which the blood soaked NPP members described as Juju – or Voodoo.

This is the explanation, please, read on: The party we suffered to organize since 1992 to have a firm structure on the ground all over the country cannot be allowed to be destroyed by a few self seeking and disgruntled politicians who put their stomachs before the party. They used to flirt from Constituency to the Regional and National levels telling fat lies and blackmailing innocent people who are prepared to instill discipline, Probity and Accountability in the party for its forward march and such destructive back biters include some Constituency Executives, Regional Executives and even MMDCE”s who should have known better.

Now, we are all REAPING THE NEGATIVE SEEDS SOWN BY THESE ‘KONKONSA PEOPLE’ – To the vicious BACKBITERS: Rawlings therefore signed that manifesto with his blood and it signified the BLOOD OF CADRES of the JUNE 4 UPRISING and the 31st DECEMBER REVOLUTIONS in 1981. Several cadres died and I know a good number of them who were human beings like you and I today 2017, they also had fathers, mothers and even children – Nobody paid any compensation to their family members when they were killed in the line of duty in 1979 and 1981. If you doubt what I have said, Go to the Ridge residence of Jerry Rawlings and ask him and he will confirm it.

Today, some political criminals in the NDC now describe the cadres as the Rawlings Boys who will get nothing from the very party that they extremely sacrificed to form in 1992, and true to their words – these cadres were not recognized or given anything by the then ruling NDC government whose appointees love to hate the cadres – we have all reaped the bitter harvest that is yielding no fruits.

You always attack cadres – what at all can herds of goats or sheep do to group of LIONS which are expert hunters? At best the herds of goats and sheep would have to run away for their dear lives. At worst, these Lions would devour them. Am I lying? Cadres went to Hell and back with Rawlings so, just don’t joke with us at all.

Is anybody listening, Keep your fingers crossed I shall return with more fire.

Aluta Continua

‘Jaanbie Iwaii’