Opinions of Saturday, 9 April 2016
Columnist: Farid Shamsu-deen
Your Excellency John Agyekum Kuffour,
I trust you doing well.
This is my second public statement about you.The first was when I co-authored a press statement and signed (as the Media & Communication Director for 350Ghana-Reducing Our Carbon) to congratulate you on the occasion of your appointment as a Climate Change Ambassador.Thanks to your Secretary Mr. Frank Agyekum, for the warm reception, when I visited your office to officially deliver the statement.
Your Excellency, this time around it's about politics. I marvelled to wake up to a very distasteful and wild publication in which you were purported to have lambasted the NDC government for showcasing what you termed "kids movie " as development projects.
Apparently, the NDC for some time now had decided to treat some of your utterances with kid gloves and rather focus on Nana Akufo-Addo since he's the candidate your party has featured for the 2016 elections despite his rapid dwindling popularity and consistent failure to secure the mandate of the good people of Ghana.
Unlike your party (which is currently in disarray), the NDC party is a very formidable and strategic party and I'm in no doubt whatever, that you would receive a response at the most appropriate time.But, as a #Footsoldier, permit me to remind you of some of your records which accounted for your Party's poor showing in both the 2008 and 2012 general elections.
Your Excellency, do you recall how you #failed miserably to deliver on your promise of linking Ghana to her neighbouring countries via #rail network system? You had a special Minister in charge of the Rail sector but ended up #collapsing the sector in toto.
You disappointed the people of Cape Coast and Kumasi after your failure to deliver on your promise of constructing an ultra-modern market to their respective cities. Under #JM administration, work on these markets are progressing as scheduled and are nearing completion without any hindrance whatsoever.
Sir, you'll forever be remembered as the president who supervised the collapse of the #GhanaAirways, #STC and in fact, your own initiative, the #PSI.
Remember how your level of mismanagement compelled you to sell #GT to #Vodafone and used the proceeds to pay salaries. Your own parliamentarians had to be #bribed to see the deal through.
Oh yes, your government created a very conducive environment for businesses to thrive including #drugtrafficking business to the extent that a sitting MP was encouraged to indulge in such a disgusting venture.We even earned for ourselves #Cocaincoast by dint of your terrible leadership. Another criminal #MP from your party lied his way to the august house of Parliament without denouncing his British Citizenship. Your own party chair accused you of setting up 'The Center for Kickback Collection' (a Looting Think Tank) at the seat of government. Years after leaving government, your name continues to make waves and occupy top position in all manner of suspicious deals.The latest in the series is the Panama Paper expose and for your information, Ghanaians are keenly waiting to see how these undercover deals unfold.Such was the state of affairs during your reign yet Ghana didn't collapse.#Greed and nothing but greed was the order of the day under your government.
You'll go down in history as the president who spearheaded the unprecedented state of insecurity in the Dagbon community.The conflict in Bawku was at its escalating height when you left power and has to take the NDC government to restore calm and security.Be grateful to God that Adam Mahama and the Asawase NPP sympathiser (May their Souls rest in peace) cold-blooded killings didn't occur during your tenure of office.
Your Excellency, I was therefore not in the least surprised the good people of Ghana used the #BallotBox to express their anger to your #voodoo government.
This is just a tip of the iceberg drawn from the litanies of your broken promises and abysmal records bequeathed to the NDC administration.
Enjoy your weekend, Sir.
Sincerely,
Farid Shamsu-deen.
(A proud NDC/Zongo Footsoldier)