Justice, Not Political Advantage, Young Man

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

The Akan have a saying that "It is only the fool who permits his gonads to be stepped upon twice by his opponents/enemies." I have thoroughly crushed the gonads of this SOB before; back then, he promised to file a lawsuit against yours truly for calling him the arrant and congenital fool that he inescapably and veritably is. Now, the SOB has come up with another chunk of rancid meat captioned "Televising Supreme Court Will Offer No Political Advantage" (Ghanaweb.com 4/17/13).

Anyway, it may be recalled that when I set his rotten butts on fire the last time, the SOB apologetically claimed to be "a critical neutralist" in the service of the salutary enhancement of Ghanaian democracy. But it is all too clear that the poor soul has absolutely no appreciation, whatsoever, for a transparent democratic culture; and this is the reason why he sees no advantage in having the Akufo-Addo/New Patriotic Party petition challenging the political legitimacy of President John Dramani Mahama multicast.

You see, he has spent most of the last three months vigorously campaigning for the NPP petition to be summarily deep-sixed without any hearing because in his warped imagination, the international community has already approved of the declaration of Mr. Mahama as the winner of Election 2012 by the clinically roguish Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan who, by the way, announced a total voting figure that was way above the number of registered voters in the country. And inextricably caught with his pants down, as it were, Dr. Afari-Gyan fatuously insists that it was a genuine slip of the tongue, and that he ought to be allowed to get away with such seditious and capital crime. Fat chance! New Yorkers are wont to say.

The fact of the matter is that even a clinical idiot appreciates the fact that judicial transparency can only enhance the quality of deliberative arguments and the ultimate verdict that will eventually be returned. Thus having the Akufo-Addo petition multicast also implies, and rightly so, that the same much-touted international community that supposedly endorsed the legitimacy of Election 2012, would also have the legal right to examine whatever sustainable forensic evidence that the losing party has to back up its vehement protestation of a flagrantly rigged Election 2012.

And the foregoing, needless to say, is precisely what has mischief-makers like the author of the article under examination literally peeing and defecating in their pants. Unfortunately, the die has already been cast; and so far, true to form, the Akufo-Addo/NPP faction has set the global community into seriously re-thinking the credibility of Ghana's Election 2012, and even others before the latter.

Indeed, it is my unabashed contention that had Nana Akufo-Addo won his party's presidential nomination for Elections '92 and '96, the history of how elections are conducted in Ghana would be totally different today. Needless to say, Strongman Jerry John Rawlings would still have gotten away with capital crime, just as he did in the case of the abduction and brutal assassination of the three Akan high court judges - now, don't you write to me bitching about the "tribal" undertones of my articles; the assassination of the judges was incontrovertibly an Anlo-Ewe orchestrated act of intimidation and ethnic cleansing. And this is why telecasting the Akufo-Addo petition globally adds a significant boost to the personal security of the sitting judges - Justices Sarkodie, Koranteng-Addow and Agyepong were not this lucky.

Then also, we now have an International Criminal Court (ICC) poised to taking "good care" of any certified butchers left among the knavish ranks of the so-called National Democratic Congress who may be spoiling for an open season on the Atuguba panel of Supreme Court judges.

The foregoing, of course, is what writers of articles like that which is captioned "Televising Supreme Court Will Offer No Political Advantage" fervidly wish Ghanaians to have forgotten so soon. So far, the Akufo-Addo side has forensically demonstrated beyond the proverbial shadow of any doubt that Election 2012 was anything but transparent and fair, minor glitches in evidentiary presentation notwithstanding. And on the latter score, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the former Deputy-Governor of the Bank of Ghana and the NPP Vice-Presidential Candidate for Elections 2008 and 2012 deserves our unstinted admiration.

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*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Department of English
Nassau Community College of SUNY
Garden City, New York
April 20, 2013
E-mail: [email protected]
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