Kofi Adams, Who Killed Nkwanta-South DCE?

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Garden City, New York
Nov. 19, 2015
E-mail: [email protected]

The National Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and his top hierarchy associates of the party have been frenziedly doing battle on behalf of the indefinitely suspended National Chairman of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). And yet, Mr. Kofi Adams would have the nation believe that the New Patriotic Party, rather than the National Democratic Congress, is a party chock-full of terror masterminds (See “NPP More Than a Terrorist Group – Kofi Adams” Peacefmonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 11/19/15). They may have selectively and conveniently forgotten this, but the fact inescapably remains that it was the founding fathers of the present-day National Democratic Congress that ordered the primitive and savage abduction and summary execution of Justices Koranteng-Addow, Agyepong and Sarkodie, all three of them bona fide descendants of Akan ethnicity.

The good news here is that their permanent statuary memorial, located in the foregrounds of the Supreme Court Buildings, in Accra, indelibly attests to the pathological Boko Haram proclivities of people like Messrs. Adams, Koku Anyidoho, Portuphy and NDC General-Secretary Johnson Asiedu-Nektia. What is more, even as I write, the mystery surrounding the brutal gun-shot assassination of the Nkwanta-South District Chief Executive (DCE) remains to be unraveled, the Flagstaff House’s vehement protestations to the contrary notwithstanding. In the wake of his blood-curdling shooting death, the National Democratic Congress’ Member of Parliament for Nkwanta-South publicly stated that this horrible situation was bound to escalate. Were he not Boko Haram-minded, the Nkwanta-South NDC-MP would have promptly called for the apprehension and vigorous prosecution of the criminal suspects involved.

Predictably, when Nana Akufo-Addo, the 2016 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, demanded an update on the progress of investigations into the case from the Mahama government, the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice had a shock of his life, when Dr. Edward Omane-Boamah, the Communications Minister, told Ghana’s foremost opposition leader to literally take a hike. Tersely put, Dr. Omane-Boamah wanted the nation and the world at large to understand that his boss, President John Dramani Mahama, and his cabinet appointees had far better things to do than worry about the forgone fate of a dead man.

Well, it may interest the cynical likes of Messrs. Mahama, Omane-Boamah and Adams to know that recently, a nephew of the brutally slain Nkwanta-South DCE e-mailed yours truly from somewhere in the New York Metropolis to thank him for keeping the memory of his uncle on the front-burner of national conversations on the routine short-shrift accorded political killings in the country. The young man would, however, neither give his name nor his address and location, for fear of being tracked down and dealt the same brutal fate as his late uncle. The palpably distraught man also wanted the world to know that the decision to savagely liquidate his uncle may well have come from the very top-echelons of the National Democratic Congress.

It is rather strange, but absolutely unsurprising, that NDC heavy-lifters like Mr. Adams should be applauding Mr. Afoko’s desperate and bizarrely shameless attempts at playing fast-and-loose with justice, knowing fully well that there is incontrovertible circumstantial evidence pointing directly to Mr. Afoko’s involvement in the acid-dousing assassination of Mr. Adams Mahama who, until his brutal Mafia-style execution in Bolgatanga in May of this year, served as the Upper-East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party. We must also add for the enlightenment of Mr. Adams and his ilk that courts are not in the habit of dictating to the leaders of legitimately registered and constituted political parties how their daily affairs ought to be conducted or run. At any rate, if Mr. Afoko respected the law, he would not have crudely resorted to the use of street tactics to attempt to force his back into the party’s headquarters.