A CHRISTMAS HAMPER TO MANANSSEH AZURE AWUNI.

From Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese 

(A loud Kamara from Laribanga)

0244198031

Dear Manansseh,

I come in peace, and I come as a brother  “rat” from the North. I wish to stand by my fellow “rat” like you in these trying times. I have your senior brother (name withheld) as a respected comrade, so I respect you and your entire family. 

Out of the blues of the stolen verdict (2020 elections), I decided to sink my energies into being my sole animating force in my own self-created cubicle where life is simply simple and a reflection of my beliefs. I decided to keep my thoughts to myself and never to allow my nerves and guts short-circuit my little brains. I have been in this world until I saw a piece you authored in which you expressed your opinions on the stolen verdict and matters arising out of the killing of unarmed civilians and other related matters. 

Manansseh, I read the beautifully-woven piece of yours in passing, because in my opinion, it was too late in a day after you glossed over all those happenings at the heat of the moment and went ahead to call on Mr John Mahama to sacrifice the will of the people for his personal image. What brought me out of my small cubicle isn’t about that opinion of yours, but the threats to your life and the adjoining issues. 

Before I open the box of worms, let me first say that I, Kudus Gbeadese, has forgiven you for that empty Ford Expedition bribe allegations you wrongly leveled against HE John Dramani Mahama, and more particularly for releasing such a story on the day Mr Mahama lost his mother. 

In 2019 when I took that decision to unfold your folded folder, I also swore never to forgive you for that singular act of breaking an already broken heart of John Mahama on that 15th June, 2016, when you deliberately aired that Ford Expedition story on that very day Mahama was to bury his mother. This was the reason I took it upon myself to unfold and review your folded folder. Surprisingly but expectedly, Mr Mahama’s own kinsmen from the Jakpa Kingdom did not only break his heart, but scoff at his identity as a Gonja, mocked and incredulously suffocated him to perpetual comma. With this, who am I to oblige you to be soft and be responsible once you are dealing with issues of a colleague Northerner (rat)? So you are forgiven, and I am equally sorry for expecting that much from a distant brethren from the Upper Region. Well, you may want to know, I am Kudus, a Kamara in Gonjaland and not a royal in the land. 

Now, back to the substance...I know your life as a journalist has been threatened God knows how much. I also know the hazards of your profession. Sir, do you ask yourself why you were singled out and threatened in this particular instance? Do you ask yourself as to why Ahmed Suale had to pay the ultimate price when Kweku Baako and others were part of the syndicate that masterminded No. 12? Do you see that they proudly used Ahmed Suale’s murder as a case to threaten you too? Just for you to know, the name Ahmed Suale sounds much like yours, just like Mahama or Bawumia, Hameed, Adongo or Haruna. Beware! 

Sir, are you sure your voice and opinions are stronger than that of Kwame A Plus? Who has exposed, attacked and insulted the NPP and President Akuffo-Addo than Kennedy Agyapong? Who has endangered and maimed the lives, dignity, integrity and reputations of Ghanaians than Kennedy Agyapong? Who dare call him a name closer to a “rat” you were called, let alone threaten to eliminate him to get Ghana working? What was your crime sir? What special opinion did you express in this case that Franklin Cudjoe or Kwame A Plus or Bola Ray or Bernad Avle didn’t express even in raw terms? 

Well, remember your identity, and like they say, you have to always watch your palm anytime you chew the palms of a monkey. I am not asking you to waive your objectivity and independence to save the faces of your Northern brethren, but you may just remember that the people you dine with when you were digging the graves of your Northern brethren are the very people who have their fingers clipped on to the trigger and waiting for the orders from the emperor so they can take your harmless life. Remember your beautiful wife and children my brother. Remember you can run to Krachi but you can never claim ownership of the land you may want to plant a corn. Home will forever remain home! 

In 2015 when I was writing my thesis, I took the pain to do so on SADA. I went specifically to look for what went wrong with the tree planting project that SADA undertook. I investigated the policy proposals, the thinking and the ultimate objective that went into that project, and the only problem I unveiled was the fact that the policy was not well communicated and stakeholder engagements with the beneficiaries was lacking. Aside this, about 80 to 85 percent of the trees survived as against the half-baked story that you told to the world that those trees were planted during the dry season, and that they all died in the process. My findings were corroborated by the report from UDS. Tell me whether the so called “meaningless dams” as constructed do not deserve an investigation and a comprehensive report from your folder. Life choices anyway.

Manansseh, I know with hindsight, you wish you never pulled down your brother, Roland Agambire. Mind you, you didn’t didn’t only pull down an upcoming entrepreneur from your own backyard, but you denied thousands of their daily bread and made several thousands jobless. Although you were doing your work as a Journalist to achieve results. And maybe you were probably promised by the current regime of better programs/projects  under their proposed Northern Development Authority, that will see an improvement of lives of the poor Northern farmers. Well, you were wrong with your thoughts and believes if there were any. 

Since it’s reconstitution and change of name from SADA to NDA, the only thing I’ve heard or read about it in and around 2019 was the story of the missing of about 700 tricycles and several hundreds of Motorbikes. I waited painfully to read a report from your folder, but I was disappointed. Up until today, the only action the government under your darling Nana Addo took was to fire the CEO, Alhaji Haroun Majeed, who rather reported the matter to the CID for the right action to be taken. Unfortunate anyway! In the process we heard names of other appointees who were implicated, but expected of this president, those people were rather protected and promoted. 

I have followed your extensive investigations into the activities of Zoomlion and its CEO, Joseph Siaw Agyapong. In fact, his story and case are practically worse than your own brother, Roland Agambiri, if we want to put both scenarios to same standards. To your amazement, your own friend and darling President, Akufo-Addo, praised him, urged and admonished him to call the bluff of haters and jealous bystanders like you (Manansseh). I wasn’t surprised anyway, because I didn’t expect anything better from President Akufo-Addo as far as the fight against corruption was concerned. 

Pity you my dear brother, because the swiftness and the dexterity with which you came attacking the person of Mr John Mahama anytime anything seemed to have gone wrong, that energy on you was lost in the last four years. Not even the goodwill, tolerance and openness of Mahama could get you to sleep over your hard opinions before unfolding them on your uncensored scripts. 

Today, you move from exile for doing your work, to a limited but unsafe dungeon where your opinions are constricted, censored but still dangerous to your very existence. Was it this you bargained for when you said if even a sheep was put on a ballot against Mahama in 2016, you were going to choose the sheep over Mahama? 

Maybe you should be told that to be a good leader is not to make juicy but unrealistic promises, neither is it to give freebies to taxpayers, it is to create a safe, just and equal systems for even the most socially excluded in society to be able to realize their dreams without systemic hindrances and discrimination. 

Within the last two weeks as I closed my world to myself, I became an ardent follower of Indian Yogi and Author, Jagadish Vasudev, publicly known as Sadhguru. In one of his inspirational tales was a story of an ambitious Cuckoos. The cuckoos has been on the tail of a mother cow who usually graze by a kapok tree. The ambitious cuckoos kept making one wish every other day...”when will I get the strong feathers to fly and settle on the last branch of the kapok?”...the wish of the cuckoos. Just before ambitious cuckoos could make another wish, mother cow whispered to him...”eat my dung anytime we go out to graze and very soon you (cuckoos) will be able to fly high above the kapok. 

Lo and behold, cuckoos could fly high and above the kapok after eating the dung for some days. One very funny day, after eating the cow dung, cuckoos flew up and settled on his favorite last branch where he could feel the sun and see the world better. There and then, an aimless but hungry hunter spotted cuckoos, took his gun, aimed and shot him down. Ambitious cuckoos became the next sumptuous meal of the aimless hunter and his hungry family. 

Lesson: even the wasted shit can you get you up and above your dreams, but it may not be able to maintain you there. 

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to my good brother Manansseh Azure Awuni. Stay safe and pray for a government that will protect your life and give you unlimited space to practice your journalism in peace and not in asylum. 

Shalom! Peace!

GHANA IN THE MIDDLE OF TWO PANDEMICS; COVID-19 & THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION OF GHANA.

By Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese
(Loud citizen from Laribanga)
0244198031

When the people revolt; when they rise up and engage in civil unrest and disorder, it is usually not because of hunger but mostly because of anger built over time out of injustice, suppression of human rights and freedoms. Most civil unrests across the globe were triggered out of sustained anger which usually get sparked by just a small unsolicited fire.

When the arbitrary use of executive power becomes the new normal, the voices that ordinarily shout the visible threats are not the threats to the survival of democracies, but the hearts that harbor the pain, anguish, sustained anger and arbitrariness from the Emperor.

The United States is gradually catching flames, and the anger is building up  across the world. The 8 mins 46 seconds reckless act of Derek Chauvin, a Police Officer for Minneapolis Police Department, has provoked the civil unrest in the United States. It didn’t take gunshots or bomb throwing to cause the riots, but just a reckless act of a single police officer.

George Floyd premeditated murder was supposed to be the 19th complaint against Derek Chauvin. Little did the Police Officer of 18 years of experience know that, kneeling on the neck and strangulating Floyd to death was going to result in him being charged for a third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. He thought it was going to added to his pile of complains, but his racist tendencies have sent him into an early maximum security prison in Oak Park Height State Prison, awaiting final judgment later in June. And that singular act is changing the political history of the United States once more.

Not the Police in riot gear and the use of force could stop the rioters from burning armored cars and tall buildings. Not the arrest of the over 4000 rioters could stop millions of both blacks and whites from pouring on to the streets. Not the order from Trump to Governors and Mayors to apply force and take over the streets could scare Chiara, the daughter of the Mayor of New York, from joining the protestors and chanting war songs. Just think beyond your power, because when the power of the masses is gathered around oppressed voices, it can get bloody and destructive.

Not even the fatal shootings from Louisville Metro Police and the Kentucky National Guard which resulted in  killing a black business man could stop the millions from kicking at police vans and throwing stones at police wielding guns. In fact, not even the police driving through the crowds could get them dispersed, it only escalated the disorder.

So, just the murder of a 46 year old George Floyd got the US trembling and boiling this much. Mostly, it takes one reckless decision of state actors to get a nation on its knees. This is what the Electoral Commission of Ghana and it’s commissioners are not learning from; they are not worried about the George Floyd and Derek Chauvin scenario in USA. And the government and its actors aren’t worried and learning either.

It won’t take rocket science or gunshots to cause people to rise up and fight for their rights in Ghana, but a small spark like the 8mins 46 seconds recklessness of Derek Chauvin. Ghanaians have tolerated enough of the arrogance and vindictiveness of President Akuffo Addo. We have accommodated the belligerence and hard-headedness of Jean Mensah and Bossman Asare led EC. Enough of the temptations!

What kind of EC is it that doesn’t want to listen to the voices of reason? When the clouds were still settling, Jean Mensah told us that she doesn’t need a complete set of equipment and data collection. We were told they will only add up to the existing database. Not even IMANI Africa’s expose’ on the procurement irregularities could get Jean Mensah to back down on her unpopular decision to procure a complete system and compile a new voter’s register.

At a point we were told that the EC won’t use the NIA cards since the registration was still ongoing. Today, we are told that the EC is going ahead to use the NIA database as the primary proof of identification; a database which hasn’t been operationalized; a database which is incomplete; an identity card which cannot be used for any transaction as of now.  What happens to Jean Mensah’s own 1.2million Voter ID cards she issued in December 2019? Is the EC charged with the responsibility to register voters and conduct free and fair elections or to deliberately disenfranchised qualified voters from exercising their democratic rights?

At first we thought they wanted to just change the management system of the Biometric system so they could manipulate the final results, but the narrative keep changing. When they realize that the power of the people as it comes from the grassroots cannot easily be manipulated with the click of a button, they’ve decided to engage in disenfranchising eligible voters. Maybe that one will get desperate Nana Addo re-elected as a democratic dictator.

Voices of reason have spoken and still cautioning. When Lawyer Akoto Ampaw spoke against the compilation of the new voters register, he did so out of logical reasoning and not because he doesn’t love his party (the NPP). When Kweku Baako supported the position of Lawyer Ampaw, he did so because the refusal of the EC to dialogue at this critical moment is worrying and suspicious.

Mr Ibn Chambers has just joined the voices of reason to admonish the EC to involve and take the concerns of all stakeholders onboard. Much particular is the inclusion of all eligible voters in the register if it’s going to be compiled anyway. The National House of Chiefs has issued a strong caution to the EC not to make a mistake to disenfranchise any qualified Ghanaian. The Ghana Federation of Labour has joined the National House of Chiefs with a strongly-worded statement to the EC. Does Jean Mensah know it all than all these collection of bodies and voices?

IDEG, CODEO, CDD, IMANI, ASEPA, CARE-Ghana and many Civil Society Organizations have all kicked against this idea of compiling a new voter’s register. They all cited the timing, the Jean Mensah inability to convince them that the EC really need a new register, and a host of other reasons.

How can you use 40 days to register over 16.5 million Ghanaians by taking their fresh biodata onto a new untested system? How feasible is it to get the new register compiled in this June amidst covid-19 and it’s attendant risks, get it functional, test-run and the final register out before the December polls?

Worse of all are the commentaries from government functionaries; The likes of Dominic Nitiwul’s threat cannot stop the people from fighting for their rights when the time comes. Not even his soldiers with armored cars and bombs can stop the wave of civil unrest when they are borne out of genuine anger from the masses. As for Obiri Boahene, it’s a woman that will tap him at the back and that will be his nemesis.

What is it that the NPP/Nana Addo and the Jean Mensah led EC see that all the rest cannot? Well, IMANI captures it well; scratch my back, let me scratch yours arrangement. The EC wants to use procurement to siphon about GHC 150 from the state, while Nana Addo need a new register to rig the 2020 elections. So, to the duo (Nana Addo and Jean Mensah), the lives of Ghanaians don’t matter, once their individual interests are well served in this barter.

The Ghanaian in this scenario is left to choose between the two pandemics; the EC/govt and Covid-19. GHANA WON’T GO TO WAR, BUT WE WILL RESIST THE OPPRESSORS AND THEIR EVIL AGENDA. Remember that a caution to the EC is not a crime, but a patriotic duty.

#FreeBMNow

COVID-19: POLARIZED GHANA EDUCATION SERVICE TO RISK LIVES OF SCHOOL CHILDREN AND TEACHERS IN THE MIDST OF INCREASING NUMBERS OF HORIZONTAL INFECTIONS.

By Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese
(0244198031)
skseidu_14@yahoo.com

The consequences of the curveball President Nana Akufo-Addo threw at Ghanaians on that 9th of April 2020 by lifting the three weeks partial lockdown are still fresh in our archives. So, anytime there is a hint of any decision which won’t be backed by science and valid data, we are quick to start pointing to the future consequences such decisions will have on the lives of the people of Ghana.

The Ghana Education Service and for that matter the Government of Ghana is set to act against all professional advices from the certified Teacher Unions in Ghana, the National Council of Parent-Teacher Association, the Africa Education Watch and other key stakeholders in the education sub-sector, to reopen schools as the Ministry of Information dropped hints on such a decision. The Ministry of Information added that government will ensure that schools and pupils adhere to the existing protocols as it prepares to reopen schools.

It is recalled that the Director General of Ghana Education Service, Prof Opoku Amankwa, requested for inputs from the stakeholders in the education sector to inform its decision to reopen schools in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic.

In its letter dated 18th May, 2020, and signed by the Executive Director, the Africa Education Watch has warned the Government of Ghana not to risk the lives of innocent children and teachers by reopening the schools as planned. Among the four concerns raised by the Africa Education Watch is the caution that any such decision must be based on science and backed by data generated by experts, and this should be done after a consensus reached by all stakeholders.

The African Education Watch bemoaned the poor hygienic conditions in our school coupled with poor infrastructure which will obviously cause congestion in times when the government is enforcing other protocols including social distancing. The civil society organization finally warned that any attempt to reopen schools without consensus from all stakeholders including PTA, SMC, will suffer patronage since parents will fear to expose their children in a school environment which cannot be properly controlled in these times.

The National Council of Parent-Teacher Association (NCPTA) equally frowns on government’s resolve to reopen school against experts cautions. The NCPTA describes any such decision as premature and that there is no sufficient data from the Ghana Health Service and the Ghana Medical Association to back a decision to reopen schools. Parents and school managements also foresee a huge risk as compliance on protocols amongst children especially wearing of nose masks for a long period of time and social distancing cannot be guaranteed.

In furtherance, the NCPTAs in its press release dated 20th May, 2020, admonished government to still monitor the situation up to August or September to ascertain a downward trend of infection before considering the reopening of schools. The NCPTAs recollects events of the Tema Factory infection which happened as a result of concentration of people at a closed place for a long period of time. This the NCPTA says should be a warning to the government.

In the midst of all these resistance by the key stakeholders including PTAs, SMCs and other civil society organizations, the government of Nana Akufo-Addo is bent on acting against all odds. To make matters worse, the Ghana Education Service which is supposed to work and act in the interest of Ghanaians especially innocent school children, has rather allowed itself to be polarized and compromised by this desperate NPP government. This is why the Ghana Education Service is only applying what the NPP government puts forward for implementation and not based its decision on valid data, science and common sense.

We had a similar case when the President lifted the three weeks partial lockdown without any consensus from experts even at a time the cases of infection assumed a horizontal trend and community infections kept growing in larger proportions. Prof Agyeman Badu Akosa, Former Director General of GHS described the decision to lift the lockdown as reckless and one not backed by data. He was at the time advocating for an extension of the lockdown and even extended to other parts of the country.

The cases of infection has not plateaued and the community spread in almost all the regions is getting alarming. This is the time we require an agile government which can assume a strictly responsive position with the ability to timely review policy instruments and options to meet the exigencies of the time.

We cannot sit back and allow this polarized Ghana Education Service to sacrifice the lives of innocent school children, teachers and parents for President Nana Addo’s appetite to remain in power at all cost. To the President and his allies, lives of school children don’t matter once their interest gets served. Ghanaians must resist any daring attempt of the GES and government to reopen schools.

SPEAK UP MR IMF! THE GRANDSON OF THE ORIGINAL SLAVE MASTER.

Dear IMF,

I am Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese, one of the offsprings of your slaves, who you have been tormenting ever since you picked the first gold at the shores of our Coasts. Mr IMF, we have surrendered, yes, we pronounce you the slave master and the power broker. Please, it’s time for you to speak up in order to quench the ongoing rat race in our nation-Ghana. We agree that you are the warmonger and so you can spark civil wars in nations where family feuds are hardly registered. Speak up Mr IMF!

When your grandfather, Mr Slavery, came to devour half of our manpower using that dehumanizing method, we still fed his hungry dogs with our own flesh. Your grandfather took away our strong men; parked them at the booth of your cargo ships while the gold he picked from our seashores were packed in the deckhouse of the ship.

Even along the deadly voyage, about a quarter of our cherished labour you caught with nets and hooks were offloaded into the hungry but struggling waves of the sea simply because they couldn’t pronounce your botanical names. Our “smelly mothers” your grandfather took along, who for weeks and months never had their baths became the center of entertainment. Your grandfathers raped them to death, and called them prostitutes in the end. Those who survived the rough penetration but had reason to share a tear, were thrown into the cage of the hungry dogs of the slave master to feed on.

Our own hands were used to slap the hell out of us. You picked our gold and silver, stole our pride, caught our men and women, bundled them into chains and decks, took them faraway to your land to labour in vain to build your own towers and bridges which today we are asked to pay to come and watch. Without Africa, your lands (The West) are empty, dirty and dried.

Just when the first agenda (slavery) started to fade off as a result of the struggle and resistance of those who survived it, your father (colonialism) was born at the Berlin Conference in 1884-5 over liquor and dirty wine. The imaginary lines were then drawn and called Maps. Families were divided without their consent. They said we had gold and silver but we and our chiefs can’t manage them and don’t know their use.

After taking our pride and made us to believe that we were nothing but pieces of objects to be used, you imported your way of life for us to live with. Africa doesn’t and can’t have a tradition except what the West practice, so said Mr Colonialism. We were taught how and what to eat, how and what to wear, how and what to speak. Our traditional practices were branded witchcraft and outmoded. We nodded in agreement anyway.

Mr Colonialism took his much from us and left us with a system that keeps us vulnerable and susceptible to their dictates they call “external shocks”. After the opposition and the ultimate breakdown of the walls of Colonialism, they swore to do worse using their invincible hands. So, they came with this thing call Democratization. They moulded slavery and colonialism into what they want us to believe and practice as democracy, which they never practiced as Colonial Masters.

The African Democracy is what the West say it is and not what the people of the African Continent decide at the polls. Worse of all is it’s attachments (globalization). They say the world should be one; they say we should all buy from one market; they say we should all spend one currency; they say we should all use the same court systems; they say we should all have same form of governments, but all of these were put together to keep the gates of Africa opened 24/7 for their insatiable exploitations.

They put together greedy merchants and call them investors. Their governments milk and sell our resources and put them into funds which they call Multilateral institutions like the IMF and the likes. Their dirty games are designed around what they call NGOs and used as baits to get our selfish leaders (Politicians and Chiefs) to open more opportunities for their vultures to rummage.

Today, these so called multilateral institutions are their controlling poles which they use to cause conflicts, change governments and destabilize peaceful African nations. Once they can get leaders to indoctrinate and corrupt, they are good to go. Interestingly, most of these leaders were educated by these same Slave Masters. They get them to think and ready to behave like them. So, in the end, they become deviants in their own African Context.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and his twin Brother, the World Bank are a torn in the flesh of the Skin of Africa. They say we should see and call them banks and fund managers, I see and call them bullies; I call them witch camps; I call them slave masters in masks; indeed I call them coup makers in Africa. They are the new deal, they are the New World Order where resources of Africa are no more on the seashores to be picked, but in the middle of the seas to be drilled, in the lowest depth of the mountains to be exploded and in the poor markets to be collected as taxes.

IMF is the Big Brother who decides who’s credible or not. He’s the Master who decides which policy will best fit the taste of the dirty merchants and not the ordinary people in Africa. He’s the power broker who decides when to cause the fall of any government in Africa. They get married to fresh governments and get them divorced when they are done milking their succulent breasts of all the loan deductions with unending but revolving interests.

Today, there is a huge conflict in Ghana. Indeed this conflicts come every four years and coincidentally they come at the time elections are due. Incumbents run for cover from the pronouncements and mostly publications of the IMF while opposition parties run to the same IMF for credibility. This is the game of chess that these dirty merchants in suits and ties  play with us. In the end, we are allowed to attack our own systems, attack our ourselves to a point of chocking while they wink at us through their stolen glasses.

If the Big Brother IMF knows he’s not a coward, he should speak out in the midst of the ongoing intellectual and political brawl  in Ghana now. Be bold to tell the Government of Ghana that per the regular practices, the data as presented to you and the political language they are speaking to cover the reality are at variance with the feeling of the every day Ghanaian. This deliberate twists and turns by you, IMF, in the midst of a conflict you created with the help of our greedy leaders is one of the muscles you have to show how powerful you are. Well, it’s a matter of time. 

We the people know some politicians in our country can pull out from their foreign bank accounts same amounts of dollars same politicians come to you with cap-in-hand to beg for. We know some of the money you put in boxes and flown back to us as loans are mostly from the bank accounts of our own politicians. Why are they afraid to also put themselves into groups of dirty merchants? They are already dirty anyway! Stop pulling the strings from your silent pigeonholes and speak up! Let us know how you steal from us and use same to colonize us. Even if you don’t speak up, we know the reality because, we feel it and we live it. 

Is it a curse on Africa to keep serving the Slave Master who’s nothing without the slave? Just one day, the son of the slave shall rise again, and that’s where the Slave Master will know how deep our wounds are. 

Sincerely,

Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese
(0244198031)
skseidu_14@yahoo.com

TWO FINGERS IN THY MOUTH, FIVE IN THY RECTUM: THE CHRONICLES OF NANA ADDO, THE NDC AND THE PEOPLE.

By Issifu Seidu Kudus Gbeadese
(0244198031)
skseidu_14@yahoo.com

“The chick that will grow into a hen can spotted the very day it hatches”...this was Okonkwo’s fear with the arrival of the Europeans in Nigeria in the late Nineteenth Century as captured in the Novel, “Things Fall Apart”. The cry of Okonkwo was borne out of the conspicuous danger the African Culture was due to suffer with the imposition of the White man’s culture and religion on the African. It’s much the same way the actions of the Nana Addo led government and the growing levels of impunity today are a reflection of what was shown the Ghanaian people when NPP was in opposition and immediately they assume power in 2017.

The formation of militant groups (invincible forces, delta forces, etc) to serve as parallel forces of the security agencies in Ghana while in opposition is a sign that with state power to control and expend resources, they can do anything to anybody and still call the bluff of the Ghanaian people. After testing their two fingers in our mouths and never got bitten, they will surely put the five fingers in our rectum and play with our intestines and lungs.

Once nobody got fired and nobody saw the need to apologize and take responsibility for stealing parts of speeches of three Presidents for Nana Addo to read to the Ghanaian people and the world, we were being told to prepare for their worse. The embarrassment that greeted us with this incident is still fresh in our minds. That was the beginning of the test of the patience and tolerance of the people.

The NDC and the Ghanaian people should never expect President Nana Addo and his NPP to do anything better than the display of arrogance, vindictiveness, abuse of power, broad day robbery from the public purse, harassment of dissenting voices, intimidation and the return of culture of silence among others. The show of excessive forms of tolerance to the above serves as a fertile ground for them to firm their grips and beat the hell out of us.

To my NDC comrades and the genuine dissenting voices, get prepared for the worse. The harassment of John Mahama out of his official bungalow with the excuse that Dr Bawumia (VEEP) was homeless but finally got the Senior Minister to occupy the same bungalow should have signaled us that this battle won’t be cool. They are currently chasing Chairman Ofosu Ampofo around over leaked tape while the real threats to the peace of this country are serving in sensitive positions in government. All these are testimonies to the fact that we the flies who chant around without any grounding can easily be crushed without stress. So what surprises you when Sammy Gyamfi got ambushed and ultimately arrested after a TV Program? If we didn’t see this coming then, we are some jokers in this redefined democracy of Akufo-Addo.

The beating of ACP Nanka Bruce at the seat of government by the militants of the NPP was a message to the police force that the invincible forces now have power over them once Nana Addo is President of Ghana. The Ayawaso West Wuogon show at the by-election was a equally a message to the Ghanaian that the 2020 election might be a battle of the strong and not ideas. Today, Double and his gang of militants operating as National Security Operatives are paid with our taxes after the government threw the Emile Short’s recommendations to the bin. Do we have a National Peace Council?

The disruption of court proceedings in Kumasi by the Delta Forces and the subsequent filing of no case by government should have told the Judiciary that “contempt of court” was being redefined by the NPP  and applied as they defined. Those Delta Force Militants are walking free and living at the expense of the taxpayer while an arrest warrant is served on Kelvin Taylor by a Judge. The open attacks of Hon Kennedy Agyapong on the Military for refusing to employ his over 100 NPP boys into the service without following the recruitment procedure is a clear indication that the respect for the barracks is about to be waived. Who doesn’t fear and respect the military uniform?

The killing of Ahmed Hussein-Suale and its attended challenges; the threats on the head of Anas Aremeyaw Anas, the Internationally Celebrated Investigative Journalist; the threats on Manasseh and his subsequent exile; the threats on Edward Adeti for exposing corruption in NPP government and the several cases of intimidation and open attacks on Journalists and media houses for doing less of what they did to the Mahama administration marks the return of the culture of silence in multitudes. Is it the case that the media is enjoying this and are only interested in reviewing Ananse stories on their shows, interviewing Fake Prophets and not the protection of its members? Once Kennedy Agyapong and the NPP succeeded in deliberately denting the image of an Award Winning Investigative Journalist like Anas, the rest of the media men and women are just like carrots who can be chewed without boiling.

As businesses are struggling to break even; as importers are struggling with rising BPs because of the depreciation of the cedi and ever increasing port charges; as the trotro driver is making up with the unannounced increases in prices of petroleum products; as the banking sub-sector is sinking and employment shrinking in alongside; and as the suffering Ghanaian continue to suffer in solitude, the Electoral Commission of Ghana is bent on blowing several millions of dollars on a register almost 40 CSOs, several political parties and majority of Ghanaians said they don’t need. Even when their lame explanations and ever changing narratives are further exposing the selfish intentions, they NPP’s General Secretary, Mr John Boadu came to announce the date for the commencement of the exercise. The worse scenario is even that the Emile Short led Eminent Advisory Committee’s request for a meeting with EC and the IPAC has angered the EC to come out to corroborate the announcement made by John Boadu on the date for the said exercise. If this is not arrogance, if this is not abuse of power, if this is not disrespect, if this is not insensitivity, then I am still looking around to find any reasonable but sound description of the EC’s actions.

Ambulances are parked for close to 5 months because the President want to cut a tape in a ceremony organize with taxes, and not even the noise from the Ghanaian would get the government sensitive. An innocent medical student had to suffer arrest for a harmless protest before the University of Ghana Medical Centre got partially operationalized. As we speak, the Ghana Maritime Authority and the Bank of Ghana Hospitals are locked up without explanation. Are we contend with the no bed syndrome and the pain and frustration many a pregnant woman go through in Korle Bu and 37? Several hospital projects have been abandoned and not even the call from chiefs will sound any meaning in the ears of the President and his appointees. Some selected road projects which were ongoing have been suspended with the excuse that some auditing were being done and for three years now, no audit report has been published and work on those roads have not commenced. Is the Ghanaian this tolerant or Mahama was just not lucky?

Appointees who hitherto were ordinary dependents are now overnight rich men who call all the shocks in towns and villages. Their flamboyance and opulence are put on stages without fear. The President is flying private jets at a cost to the taxpayer and his cousin is directing government agenda out of government. The NPP senior members are openly declaring their intention to steal the 2020 elections on talk shows and not at cabinet meetings. All these have passed the test for the real show in December 2020.

Perhaps, the show put out by the NPP militants at Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election and the statement by the majority leader in Parliament to the effect that with the compilation of the new register, the NDC will never win an election in this country might just be as dangerous as the operations of terrorists groups in Somalia. And this must be worrying to the Ghanaian than the so called leak tape from Chairman Ofosu or some so called cyber crimes by Sammy Gyamfi.

To my NDC comrades, no amount of press conferences or releases from our council of elders will get the NPP to be democratic and sincere during election 2020. No amount of expose’ of corruption in this government will stop them from engaging in same acts now and forever. The language the NPP understands is different from the language the NDC is speaking now. Why not stiff boycots? Why not simultaneous peaceful  demonstrations across regions? Beware! The second coming of Nana Addo will witness the highest form of impunity in Ghana. If we are lucky, they will only chase all of us into exile and sell this country to the Danquah’s so we can serve as refugees in other countries in peace.

Get down from your gentle horses and act as citizens. I know the NDC love this country, and I know the NDC will be the last to pray for any instability, but that shouldn’t serve as our weaknesses. We need to rescue this country and this must be a civic duty to all of us.

I am a patriotic citizen! Shalom!