Who Is More Dangerous Than You, Mr. Kojo Yankah?!

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Garden City, New York
Jan. 27, 2015
E-mail: [email protected]

He was the Chief Propagandist for the Rawlings-led Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC), and yet Mr. Kojo Yankah would have Ghanaians believe that I, Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., am the most dangerous political commentator on the Ghanaian political scene. We know how you got to where you are now, Mr. Yankah, and the blood and dirty money on your hands, so don't attempt to hoodwink anybody here; I am old enough to have witnessed the primitive reign-of-terror you, Mr. Rawlings and Monsieur Tsikata rained on the pates of Ghanaians. Shames without end on you! You P.V. Obeng look-alike!

I mean, this is the man who had the temerity to interview Mr. Joachim Amartey-Kwei, the PNDC cabinet appointee scapegoated for the Mafia-style abduction and summary execution of the three Akan-descended Accra High Court judges and the retired Ghana Army major, about whether, indeed, Messrs. Rawlings and Kojo Tsikata were complicit in this most heinous and dastardly ethnic-cleansing exercise in Ghana's postcolonial history, knowing fully well that these clinical thugs were its main architects. You absolutely have no integrity, whatsoever, and yet, you, Mr. Yankah would have Ghanaians believe that Okoampa-Ahoofe is the most ethnically divisive Ghanaian citizen who deserves to have a Fatwa, Iranian-style, placed on his pate (See "The Mahama-Otumfuo Video: Facts And Opinions" GraphicOnline 1/22/15).

Well, you asked for it, and so I have to give it to you right here, and upfront: Not long ago, President Mahama stood in the heartland of Asanteman and Ghana and mordantly castigated the people to the damnable effect that even if his National Democratic Congress (NDC) government paved all the streets in the Asante Region with gold, the natives of the aforesaid region would not even half-appreciate the same. And yet you, Mr. Yankah, a Kumasi-born Fante native, as I understand it, would have Ghanaians believe that President John Dramani Mahama does not have a single drop of anti-Asante blood coursing through his veins. How much has the Gonja Boy paid you? What to you take Asantes for, Mr. Yankah? A bunch of "Ahabanmufo" who could not tell their left-hand from their right-hand?

Anyway, I don't have the time to delve into the lurid quiddities of it all, except to just register in passing that the entire 2012 Mahama Presidential Campaign was predicated on tribal and regional chauvinism. Unless Nana Akufo-Addo made Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the former's then-two-time presidential-campaign running-mate, the substantive presidential candidate of the main oppostion New Patriotic Party (NPP), no Ghanaian of northern descent should vote for the NPP.

Now, Mr. Yankah would have Ghanaians believe that yours truly detests the guts of his own brother-in-law and blood relative, His Majesty The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei-Tutu II; and yet of the legions of criticisms written about Otumfuo's "Yenntie Obiara" faux-pas (for that is what it veritably was), Mr. Yankah would have his audience believe that yours truly's was "the most insulting of all," apparently because I have committed the capital crime of having earned a doctorate, as well as electing to teach at a university in New York, and not at Mr. Yankah's bogus Makola-type journalism academy in Accra.

Wow, this sounds like raw envy to me, except that I am having a hard time figuring out why I could have become such an "epic" source of envy and the unremitting conniption and immitigable depravity of Mr. Yankah's. You see, when I saw his name and comment questioning my motive for writing my "Yenntie Obiara" article in the comments section of the Ghanaweb.com website, I thought it was a hoax, that it was one of those unlettered scumbags and avocational impersonators who swarm the country's leading privately owned and operated website daily trading gratuitous malediction. I was also naturally amused, because I was merely commenting on why Otumfuo Osei-Tutu II evidently found it so difficult to fathom why his own invested and loyally sworn chiefs would not defend him.

In other words, if Mr. Yankah felt the need to question the motive of any individual on this issue, it was definitely that of the Asantehene and not mine. But, of course, knowing Mr. Yankah for the congenital opportunist and pathological bootlicker that he is - age and gray hairs do not seem to have changed this impudent opportunist one bit - I am not surprised that of the hundreds of thousands of commentators who have "freely" expressed themselves on this issue - in spite of Messrs. Rawlings, Tsikata and Yankah's inglorious attempts to muzzle them up - the former Graphic editor and director of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) chose to pick on me. Sorry aging rascal, but I am no pushover!!!

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