Opinions of Thursday, 7 October 2010
Columnist: Sarpong, Justice
Sarpong, Justice
The recent lava flow of invectives from the NDC officials impuigning the intergrity of the NPP Presidential candidate, Nana Akuffo Addo's personal life ought to stop if the politics of personal attack is to be avoided in our body politics. Nana Akuffo daughter's personal problems should not be part of the 2012 Presidential elections because that woman is 33 years old and is not under the thumb of Nana Akuffo Addo, she is old enough to be responsible for her own actions and inactions.
Koku Anyidohos attack on Nana Akuffo Addo's daughter should have been condemned by President Mills because that man was speaking as a Communication Director at the Presidency and therefore was speaking for Mills but as usual with Mills, he chose to remain mum and allowed his crapulous spokesman to do his dirty work for him but let this President take note that,he is living with rats and very soon he will grow some whiskers like them and that is when the cats will start chasing him.
This short article is to bring to Mills attention that, we at the other side of the political divide are running out of patience about his Aides lack of protocol and decorum and we might be forced to respond to his amoral goons using the castle as an iron curtain and spewing their toxic political nonsense to hide the abysmal record of this administration. Mills need more than the diaphanous support he is getting from the bufoonish reactions of the spotty hobbledehoys at the castle and the student deputized ministers who are making his administration as the biggest jokers masquerading as politicians and could have given Super O.D and his OSOFO DADZIE ensemble a run for their money if this was not a serious matter.
Mills cannot sit in the crowd mussitating what he wants to say to his goons who have no morals and discipline to control their emotions and say anything to please their bosses and fool soldiers. These darn mallards snipping at Nana Akuffo Addo have done nothing in their lives to even share the same stage with him let alone delve into his personal character.The ignorance of these denizens of the streets parading as castle Aides cannot be accepted as moral and rational thinking or else this country would be heading towards moral decadence for decades to come.
The inaction or temporization by President Mills to discipline Koku Anyidoho has emboldened some people in NDC including a group calling itself,'The NDC Media Analysts Group' led by one Quarshie to launch a scathing attack on the NPP Presidential candidate as Koku did and as usual we don't expect this President to call this group to order because he is reaping the political benefit without paying a price for it but let Mills be warned, he is not indemnified against personal attack as this group did to Nana Akuffo Addo. To those who might not have read what the idiot group said, this is a synopsis of their stupidity;
"The NDC Media Analysts Group has launched a barrage of criticisms against the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo-Addo. The group says the NPP flag-bearer is not fit to be president of Ghana. According to them, issues of drug addiction as well as his daughter’s drunk driving that occurred two months ago are enough reasons for his inability to govern the nation."
First, there has not been any proof of Nana Akuffo Addo ever using drugs and if this group has a problem with drug use among our leaders, then it should first talk to Rawlings who was under drug hallucination when he beat his Vice-President Arkah to 'death'. Rawlings is a drug abuser and we tolerated him for twenty years so this group that hails Rawlings as a n icon has no moral authority to pontificate and sermonize to us about drug morality.
At least Nana Akuffo Addo's children were not banished to Akyem so that they could be raised as proper Akyems as Mills banished his out of wedlock son to Gomoa so that he could be raised as a proper Fante, according to Mills.
Below are some snippets of what Mills said about his son when he was interviwed about little Sam in 2000.
"On radio yesterday Mills explained that his recourse to the act of marital infidelity was carried out with the knowledge and encouragement from his wife, Mrs. Ernerstina Naadu Mills."
"According to the Vice President, who goes into a presidential run-off as an underdog against Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor on December 28, said the only reason why his son does not stay with him is that he wants the boy to grow up a Fante.
He explained that the son could have stayed with him on the University of Ghana, Legon campus where he was once a teacher, but due to the fact that there was nobody who could take care of his son in their absence, his sister asked that the boy be brought over to Cape Coast to continue his education. In addition as he said the boy would have grown up a proper Fante."
" When asked by the host why he had always been silent over this child preferring to remain silent about the existence of the boy, Mills said he never thought the fact of his infidelity could ever be an issue to be exploited by his political opponents."
Now this is what I call hypocracy. Mills son didn't become part of the NPP campaign in 2000 and has never been part of any political campaign so why is he silent when his Aides are exploiting Nana Akuffo Addo daughter's DWI to his benefit? Mills Aides ought to be really ashamed of themselves when the President they are serving even refused to acknowledge that he has a son in 2000. When Mills filed his forms as NDC Presidential candidate in 2000, he left blank where the candidates are supposed to name their children and he made an amendment to that forms when it became public knowledge that, he has a son out of wedlock so his Aides should not be talking about family morals when their Boss is not a template of what a family should be. NDC should henceforth stop talking about Nana Akuffo Addo's daughter or we will be forced to reveal what life his son and his former concubine are living in London. Little Sam and his mother are struggling in London whilst this deadbeat Dad President is feasting his twelve dogs.
Justice Sarpong
Houston, Texas