Opinions of Saturday, 15 September 2012
Columnist: Damptey, Daniel Danquah
The most important thing to emerge on the political landscape of this country is the election of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo as Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party. Talk of poise, charisma, aura, pragmatism, democratic credentials and what have you; the man has them in abundance. His ability to make deft moves has confounded all persons including even his own supporters and political opponents. The man is as slippery as a cat or a fish in a flowing stream. He is a combination of the trio of Pele, Maradona and the Portuguese Eusebio. No wonder, his opponent who cannot fathom his depth of character and his mesmerizing personality have ganged up in their desperate attempts to tarnish the image of this iron man of history. But try as they can, they will never succeed because God and the masses are with him.
Yes, Nana is the David who will use a sling and a single stone to bulldoze, destroy and eventually maul the Nefarious Destructive Cancer and its Ahantanhene, President John Dramani Mahama. Between Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo and President John Dramani Mahama, the former President of the United Nations Security Council has an edge over the man whose contradictory statements make him a prime suspect in the untimely demise of Former President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo is a self-made man. In his student’s days, he held a different political ideology from that of his father and argued with the old man as to which of the two systems was better. This is well documented for even all the doubting Thomas’s to read. He started life as a Marxist before switching to capitalism. Mahama’s father pampered him by giving him more than he needed in his child hood days. The caretaker President has testified that his refusal to share his ‘surplus’ with the less fortunate in the school led to a bully seizing some of the goodies from him (John Mahama). Akufo Addo had fought for everything he gained for they were not given to him on a silver platter. But from President John Mahama’s own testimony, it was the death of his former boss which opened such a gargantuan opportunity for him and he (John Mahama) is full of praises to the Almighty God for taking his former boss away at the time he did. Anita se Souza also sings the same Alleluia chorus. Ei, suro dee oben wo (fear the person closer to you) for some people are dangerous paa!
Yes, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, the man with democratic credentials rose through the ranks to preside over the United Nations Security Council at a time when the Arab -Israeli conflict reared its ugly head. Tempers were high and harsh words were exchanged between the two ‘warring’ factions. People had lost hope in the UN’s ability to resolve the problem just as the Nefarious Destructive Cancer are pouring sand on Nana Addo’s free qualitative SHS education. Prominent world leaders from the industrialized countries had tried and failed and wondered what a mere African Foreign Minister could do. They alluded to the fact that Nana was “too known” but the African Foreign Minister knew his sauce and so remained unperturbed.
The time came when Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo was to silence his critics. He took his seat as President of the UN Security Council. One …. Two ….. Three … and pronto, a breakthrough was made. Nana had achieved the impossible. The African Foreign Minister from Ghana has done it! Yes Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, with a masterstroke was able to broker peace between the two bitter enemies and that month’s United Nation’s Security Council’s Session ended with members of the two factions shaking one another’s hand – something unprecedented in the history of the United Nations Security Council, all thanks to Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, the genius.
This is the Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party for you. He has said he would make Senior High School Education free when the NPP is voted back to power and he becomes President. What then are you waiting for? The NPP has done it before. Under the New Patriotic Party, the Computerized School Selective System was introduced, the Maritime Academy was elevated to a degree awarding institution and we never made any noise on it. We found oil for the first time when even with clear evidence before their very eyes, the Nefarious Destructive Cancer said it loud and clear that what had been discovered was not oil but ‘adwe ngo’ (Palm kernel oil). We introduced free maternal care for pregnant women, but the then Minister for Women’s Affairs, Akua Sena Dansoa said that it was the introduction of such a policy that had resulted in the increase in the number of teenage pregnancies in the country.
The list of achievements chalked under the Kufuor led NPP Administration are many and space would not permit me to discuss them. But suffice it to say that, the inability of the party to counter the lies, distortions, fabrications and misrepresentations of the Nefarious Destructive Cancer led to the loss of power by the New Patriotic Party in the December, 2008 General Elections.
Today the NDC’s tenure of office is coming to an end and it is using all the arms and ammunition in its arsenal, including unconventional ones that are banned under the UN Charter to intimidate and bomb the Ghanaian out of existence. Our determination to resist such “akakabinsem”, atuturasem”, and patapaasem” through the people’s power has sent shivers down the spines of the nefarious and cancerous contraption.
Yaw Boateng Gyan’s tape: We are being bombarded with demonic messages by Mephistophelean devotees from the kingdom of Beelzebub to justify attempts by this son of Baal from the Boko Haram Sect to plunge this country into chaos. Yaw Boateng Gyan is a staunch believer in the NDC’s philosophy of using what it has to get what it cannot get under normal process. In other words, it uses violence to actualize its aims and objectives. And if Ghanaians are killed or maimed in the process, it does not matter to Yaw Boateng Gyan and his fellow ‘criminals’. This is a clear endorsement of “the end justifies the means “philosophy. Desperate and power-hungry Yaw Boateng Gyan tells disgruntled foot-soldiers of the nefarious contraption desperate for job opportunities that interested members would be recruited into the National Security Apparatus to enable the party prosecute its mischievous agenda of staying in power. When asked for assurance, the wicked, unpatriotic and betrayer of the Ghanaian cause said among other things that “the heroes fund” would take care of them in case they got injured or maimed and in the case of death, the fund would take care of their surviving spouse and children. They would also be given fake identity cards by National Security and provided with fast get away cars when their lives are threatened after carrying out their nefarious activities. When anything untoward happens, the party will blame it on Nana’s “All die be die mantra”.
Comments on this coup plot against mother Ghana by NDC Apostles of destabilization, from the highest papacy to the lowest clergymen have depicted these people as nothing but a bunch of callous, unpatriotic, confused, arrogant nation wreckers and unredeeming irredentists who are all out to perpetuate the old system of making the people “hewers of wood and carriers of water”. The party’s apparatchiks from Johnson Asiedu Nketiah and the notorious Satanist, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa to party’s Propaganda Secretary, Richard Quarshiga and other non-entities like Gabby Asumeng and Yamoah “horse” have all given a clean bill of health to their Al –Qaeda, Klu Klux Klan and Boko Haram son of the devil, Yaw Boateng Gyan.
An NDC Spoke-Person, one Maliba was on ETV on Friday last week on a programme hosted by Bismarck Brown trying desperately to justify the indefensible action of their Boko Haram brother. He said the action was unfortunate but not criminal and that we must hear the Boko Harem’s member’s defence before we crucify him. The Yamoah of a horse who not long ago was accused by a lady of infecting her with the Aids disease and who got ‘sacked’ from the NHIS, (NPP laudable intervention) for attempting to ‘fleece’ the unsuspecting public of their hard-earned money under the guise of soliciting funds for the CEO of the scheme gave his full support to his Boko Haram’s brother..
But I wonder whether the Yamoah ‘horse’ was in control of his senses when he remarked during a radio programme that the ‘Ahantanhene’ President John Dramani Mahama had ensured the maintenance of peace until some people clandestinely came out with a so called tape. I say, Yamoah horse, hold you peace. What are you saying? Do you understand the issue you have decided to comment on? The person who is at the centre of this hullabaloo has not denied the existence of the tape. Who are you therefore to say there is no such tape? You see the miserable picture you have cut for yourself? Yes, you have reduced yourself to the level of a ten year old imbecile. Yes, that’s what you have reduced yourself to. You have lost credibility.
Then came Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa the ‘chukwumerije’ of Ghana politics, with his weird logic. He said Yaw Boateng Gyan, the satanic beast from hell, was not speaking for the party. If he was not, why then are all the top members of the NDC attempting to justify his malevolent utterances against people perceived their political enemies? That aside, the notorious Satanist asked rhetorically whether Kwabena Dufuor is so poor that he could not give his own personal money to Boateng Gyan to support the foot-soldiers. Nana Akomeah then asked him why he should call the Chief Director to the scene if indeed the money was Kwabena Dufuor’s own. To that, the notorious Satanist had no answer. What does Okudzeto Ablakwa take Ghanaians for?
Readers should note that Okudzeto Ablakwa did not deny the fact that Kwabena Dufuor had given money to Yaw Boateng Gyan. Readers too will bear me out that the action of Ghana’s Chancellor of the Exchequer is reminiscent of what went on during the late Ignatius Kuti Acheampong’s regime. On one occasion, he minuted on a letter from a woman seeking financial assistance: “Mr Anane Binefo, this woman came to me weeping. You must help her”. It means therefore that Kwabena Dufuor, the man who together with Betty Mould Iddrissu, Barton Oduro ‘conspired’ with others to ‘award’ a gargantuan amount of Ghc58 million but cleverly reduced to GHC51 million of tax payers’ money to Wayome, could dip his hands into the national kitty and dole out money to anyone he fancies.
The most painful aspect of the whole incident is that instead of condemning Boateng Gyan of Boko Haram, these unpatriotic elements including a Deputy Minister of State are saying the man is ignorant of recruitment procedures at the national security and could not in any way facilitate their enlistment into the security apparatus. Wow! Nice argument but lacking in substance. Oh Yaw, why? Yaw Boateng Gyan, the man who would have led NDC foot soldiers to take over the Castle if Carl Wilson had not been sacked and again referred to Okoe Vanderpuye beard in “huhundous” terms is doing what he knows best.
You remember foot soldiers of the NDC seized the Adomi Bridge and collected tolls at both sides of the bridge for sometime before they were flushed out of the place. You remember the order to tear gas and beat poor and miserable looking fishermen whose only crime was to petition the presidency on the shortage of pre-mix fuel. You also recall that poorly remunerated teachers who had gathered at the Teachers Hall to embark on a peaceful demonstration were beaten up, tear gassed and even fired at by NDC security apparatus. Maybe it was part of the agenda of the NDC as enunciated by Yaw Boateng Gyan.
Yes, the NDC did all those things and got away with them. So, what then could they not do? You remember the seven month pregnant woman who was arrested by the BNI but collapsed and died during interrogation. Till date, no investigation has been conducted and the culprits are walking the streets of Ghana as free men and woman.
Again, the former President John Atta Mills died under mysterious circumstances. The President’s own accounts differ from that of Haruna Iddrissu and the sister of the deceased President. The incumbent President, John Dramani Mahama has stated in unequivocal terms that it was the death of his Predecessor that gave him the opportunity to become President. The President’s statement and that of the discrepancies are enough to warrant immediate investigations into the death. But trust the NDC for what they are. Nothing so far has happened and they think the chapter has been closed. So what else can the NDC not do? You remember Baba Jamal’s admonition to staff of the information services department that anytime they came across a goat they should say they had seen a cow and whenever they saw a mosquito, they should say they had seen a helicopter. One other aspect of the whole issue is that all the NDC commentators, as if they have been indoctrinated have attempted to exonerate their son from the Boko Harem stock. They always justify Yaw Boateng Gyan’s reckless, malicious, infamous and treasonable conduct on four issues which I intend to diffuse. These are Kennedy Agyapong’s statement, Asamoah Boateng’s campaign message that he had assisted people to get employment, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s “All die be die mantra” and the so called tape about Ata Akyea plot to spread dead bodies in the Volta Region.
Kennedy Agyapong’s tirade against Gas and Ewes: The statement was reckless and not in conformity with our cardinal principle of peaceful co-existence amongst the various ethnic groups in the country. The party condemned it and dissociated itself from that utterance, as a result of which Kennedy Agyapong’s complained bitterly about the party disserting him in his hour of need. The party had to go to his aid by securing bail for him because first and foremost we are democrats and do not want things to be done arbitrary. Secondly, we did not want what happened to the seven month old pregnant woman to happen to him. What is wrong with that? But an attempt by the Boko Harem’s jihadist to recruit party members into the security apparatus is much more serious than Kennedy Agyapong’s effusions. And if these so-called National Security personnel with NDC in their hearts and blood streams kill their political opponents who is going to question them? It is on record that NDC as a party ‘sponsored’ the killing of four civilians at Agbogbloshie market. Have the culprits been brought to book?
We should at the same time not overlook the fact that an infamous hater of Ashantis, Kofi Awoonor has written a book very critical of Ashantis and have even gone to state that most of the coup d’états in the country including the 31st December, 1981 were done to checkmate the “Great Ashanti Project” . He went on to state that Nkrumah’s government fell because of the presence of corrupt and criminal Ashanti elements in the CPP? What is more ethnocentric than this? And when I talk about it, demon filled and treasonable elements like Kwesi Pratt and others will say we should talk about things that seem to integrate us and not talk about those things that seek to divide us? And I say, we cannot postpone to tomorrow what we can do for the country today. If we don’t discuss those issues today our children who would come after us will table it for discussion. And this tribal bigot is the person the NDC has appointed as Chairman of the Council of State. What sort of advice can he give apart from advising the President to use all the forces at his disposal to diffuse and dissolve the “Great Ashanti Project”?
Asamoah Boateng’s assistance to secure jobs for people: Hitler said if you tell a big lie, the people will believe it. Asamoah Boateng did not say he had employed people into only the Security services. What he said was that he had assisted people to get employment and sometimes people even from the then opposition party (NDC) came to him to assist them in securing jobs for their wards, friend or relative. He did not specifically mention the security services. The NDC should not attempt to rewrite history.
If the NDC is denying this let them produce the tape for all to hear exactly what Asamoah Boateng said. I challenge them to produce the tape if they are true sons of their fathers with two balls dangling between their legs.
Atta Akyea and others attempts to spread dead bodies in the Volta Region: In the first place, I want to put it on record that nowhere has Atta Akyea admitted that the voice on the so-called tape was his. You see, the NDC are masters in the art of group manipulation and indoctrination. They always premise their statements with falsehood and unless you are alert and well focused, you will buy into their daily mantra of misrepresentations, distortions, fabrications and utter lies. They should tell Ghanaians the date, time and venue that Atta Akyea admitted ownership of the voice on the tape. They claimed that Ata Akyea, Kofi Jumah and others were plotting to spread dead bodies in Volta Region to support their allegations that NPP members had been murdered in the Volta Region. How could people be so daft to come up with such a stupid argument which could only be found in the dictionary of an imbecile? Are these people serious all?
But before I show the “ankafo thing” in the assertion, I wish readers to cast their minds back to what some top NDC members said about the NPP. They made all sorts of allegations against the NPP. But when they were being vetted by the Parliamentary Appointments Committee, they said it was campaign talk. Typical examples of such people were Ama Benyiwa Doe, and Betty Mould Iddrissu. Again the NDC told Ghanaians they met a battered economy, but in a letter to the World Bank, they painted a very favourable report about the state of Ghana’s economy as at the time it took over government. There was even surplus money to enable them spend more than$1.5 million on its members who went to drink tea during the transition period.
Do you take anything these people say serious? Absolutely no! Can these treasonable elements in our midst tell Ghanaians why Atta Akyea and his so- called ‘collaborators’ did not carry out their plan to liter the Volta Region with dead bodies if indeed it was true? Secondly, who is in power now? Why have they not arrested Ata Akyea and his ‘conspirators?
Remember ‘Red’ was arrested when he came back to Ghana. He was accused of causing trouble during the 2008 General Elections. Again, did the NDC not arrest ‘Limping Man’ when he returned to Ghana? He was accused of being the brain behind the swapping of cocaine with konkonte during the NPP administration. So, why have they not arrested Ata Akyea, Kofi Jumah and their conspirators? You see, they cannot do that because the tape is not genuine. Simple! Liars! Onyame ahu mo oo!
Those making such useless and illogical statements should answer this question. From where would Atta Akyea and his fellow conspirators get dead bodies to litter the streets of Ho and it environs? Are they going to use accident victims? The bodies would have decomposed and the stench itself would make that impossibility. From the mortuaries? O God, the dead bodies belong to families and what would the hospital authorities tell family members when they went there for their bodies and couldn’t find them? Mind you, do these ignorant morons want to tell us that all the mortuary attendants and administrators belong to the Osono stock to make this an easier task? At least, the founder of their contraption has told us in clear unmistakable terms that Atta Mortuary man does not belong to the Osono stock.
Even under normal situations, it is not easy to carry a dead body from one place to the other. The number of police check points on the way would act as an obstacle to anyone embarking on such a foolish venture. It is like crossing the Nigeria- Benin Republic Border at Seme. If you have ever been to Nigeria by road, you would understand what I mean.. In some cases vigilantes even set up road blocks and I wonder how those people who concocted the idea of making a tape never thought of such an obstacle. The truth of the matter is that nothing of such thing ever took place and so the NDC were at their wits end to see how they could make Ghanaians believe the tape was authentic. You see how daft and demonic these people could be!
They are in need of some form of ‘tutoring and redemption’ which I have offered them free of charge. If a ‘whole Deputy Minister of Misinformation like Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa could come out with such a weird and illogical statement like what he has come up with then I am afraid the country is doomed. But I am not surprised at all. He is an integral part of Team B.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo’s “All die be die” mantra: Again, I say that all those who say the All die be die mantra is a recipe for violence have got their thinking faculty turned upside down. The mantra should not be taken out of context. Let’s go back to that aspect of the tape which led to the statement. “Atiwa koraa, yekyeree won kakrabi”. (At Atiwa, we showed them a little bit”. What did we show them? Who were the people who complained of intimidation? It was NPP. Could these wicked people with tainted souls point at one instance where NDC members complained of any atrocities against them? The complaints all came from the NPP side. So what did we show them at Atiwa? Even Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, Frances Essiam and Nana Ohene Ntow who alleged that some NPP members had been killed were questioned by the Police. But Anita de Souza, that heartless Jezebel of a woman who callously and ‘capriciously’ drove her vehicle through a human barricade and maimed some of them in the process and openly declared that if she got a similar opportunity she would do it again have not received any invitation for a chat from the Police. A case of selective justice system with some sacred cows, one would say.
So what did Nana mean by the “All die be die” mantra? I will show you what we exhibited at Atiwa. It had to do with a people’s resilience in the face of naked and unprovoked aggression that prevented the NDC from riding roughshod over the good people in the constituency. Yes, the people constituted themselves into watch dogs or vigilantes and foiled plans by the NDC from carrying away ballot boxes from polling stations, and I do not think there is any law against what the brave people of Atiwa, particularly Abomoso did to ensure the survival of democracy. Even though Anita de Souza exhibited her inhuman traits by maiming some people in the process, it was a price those people paid to ensure that democracy thrives in the country. It is akin to what Fiifi Kwetey and others refer to as positive defiance. Nowhere has any member of the NPP said we should go and kill people. That is not what all die be die mean. The NDC is saying that it will use everything in its power to ensure victory for the party and we of the NPP are saying that when iron meets steel, one has got to give way. The NPP like what the Action Congress of Nigeria said represents the strong will of the masses.
By coming out with such reckless, and treasonable effusions as were captured on the tape, Yaw Boateng Gyan has eroded any bit of virtue and democratic credentials in him. He is no longer sane for no person with human blood in him would ever make such ‘huhundous’ pronouncements on such gargantuan scale. Issuing a fatwa on his political enemies is the last thing we should hear from such a “fine” human caricature like Yaw Boateng Gyan. He, like a political vulture and vampire thrives on spilling of human blood, otherwise why would he wish assassination for his fellow human beings. He does not belong to our society and judging by his utterances and pronouncement on the tape, and the untold hardship he Boateng Gyan has wrought on his political opponents as evidenced by the happenings at Akwatia, Atiwa and Chirepone, one cannot help but conclude that here is the devil who must be chained at all costs.
“We believe that the time has come for us to stand up. We have no choice but to defend our freedom, democracy and future. The future starts now and today. We need to remain vibrant, fearless, outspoken and vigilant. A bullet from the much infiltrated security apparatus should not scare us. We must remain unfazed. In the words of Che Guevara, ‘we cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it” (Global Action Week.Org)
Daniel Danquah Damptey ([email protected])(daniel
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