The
peoples and citizens of the Brong Ahafo and Central Regions of Ghana will be
wiser than the NDC propagandists think in the December 2012 Presidential and
Parliamentary elections. The ethnocentric slogans of John Mahama that “I am one
of you” and the “we Northerners are tired of being mates… we Northerners are
also ripe for the Presidency and the Post of President is better for
Northerners than Vice-President”.
While
John Mahama was exploiting ethnocentric sentiments and geographical location of
his inheritance to his advantage, he forgot that the same calls have negative
boomerang effects against him.
For
instance, the people of the Central Region, by John Mahama’s logic, are worse off
today than before the well-planned death of the late President John Mills.
The
people of Central Region had produced a President in the 2008/2009 Presidential
elections. The slogan “Adze wo fie a oye’ used by both Professor JEA Mills and
Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom had worked in favour of the Central Region and somehow
enabled Professor JEA Mills to become the President to hail from the Central
Region. The people of Central Region had realized that they also deserved
better than a Vice President and therefore voted massively for their kinsman.
In
fact, chiefs from the Volta Region had visited the Central Region, in 2008, in
solidarity with their counterparts from the ‘Fanti Land’ to urge them on to
vote for President Mills. Atta Mills had tried unsuccessfully on two previous
occasions (2000 and 2004) to win the Presidential elections, losing on all
those occasions to the Gentle Giant, John Kufuor. Out of sympathy, the people
of the Central Region voted massively for their kinsman.
Going
by the logic of John Mahama, who reaped where he had not sown, the people of
the Central Region should be annoyed with John Mahama. The people of the
Central Region have had more Vice Presidents than any other Region. As an illustration, Dr De-Graft Johnson was
the Vice President of Dr Hilla Limann during the PNP Administration of the
Third Republic.
During
the Forth Republic, the Central Region has had three Vice Presidents and only
one President. The Vice Presidents of the Central Region in the 4th
Republic are Mr. Kow Nkensen Arkaa (of blessed memory), Professor Evans Atta
Mills (of blessed memory) and Mr. Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur (the incumbent Vice
President). Consequently, as per the
logic of John Mahama, the people of the Central Region are tired of the
position of Vice President. As a matter of fact the Central Region deserves
better.
Of
all the Vice Presidents produced by the Central Region, only one – Paa Kwesi
Amissah Arthur-has some questionable academic, sexual and professional
qualifications. Dr De-Graft Johnson and Professor John Mills all had PHD
academic qualifications and were outstanding in their fields (engineering and
law). Mr. Kow Nkensen had both academic
and professional competence. The same cannot be said of Uncle Paa Kwesi Amissah
Arthur. Why have the people of the
Central Region been denied of the services of the Arkaahs and Mills only to be
imposed on with a mediocre personality?
Who
caused the death of Professor Mills? Can President John Mahama swear by the
Almighty God that he knew nothing about the death of Professor Mills? Can John Mahama also swear by the local
Ghanaian deities especially ANTOA of Ohene Agyekum’s egg fame that he was not
an accomplice in the well-planned death of Professor Mills?
Did
President John Mahama not tell his people in the North during the 2008
Presidential campaign that they should vote for President Mills who was sick
and would die for him (John Mahama) to take over as the President? Has that
evil-intention not come to pass? Who is the current President of Ghana? Is it not John Mahama? How did he become
President? Was it not through the killing of President Mills?
Is
that how best a Vice President who claimed to be the luckiest in the whole
world could treat his boss? Did John Mahama not shed crocodile tears at Cape
Coast on Saturday 28th July 2012 by praising Atta Mills as the best
mentor, father, brother and friend and yet was responsible for his death. Did
John Mahama not leave Atta Mills in Ghana to go to USA, Canada and UK to launch
his book, “My first Coup d’état” at a time that Professor Mills had just
returned to Ghana from USA after a thorough medical examination (or is it
medical treatment). Would John Mahama treat his father or brother that way? Was
John Mahama not extremely callous and insensitive to the plight of his
benefactor who had given him more space and freedom to operate as a Vice
President and de facto President than any Vice President in the whole world?
Was
it not Professor Mills’ magnanimity that enabled John Mahama to amass all the
ill-gotten wealth that he is splashing about in this year’s electioneering
campaign? Where did John Mahama get all the millions of dollars, euros and
pound sterling not forgetting the Ghanaian cedis?
Is
that the best gratitude to Professor Mills and the people of the Central Region?
Why could John Mahama not wait until the Almighty God, at His own time, take
the life of Professor Mills?
Why
was John Mahama in his early 50’s in a hurry to ‘kill’ Professor Mills to
become President?
Why did John Mahama deny the people of Central
Region even the full only-one term- presidency of Professor Mills? Is it not wickedness, greed, avarice,
over-ambition and hypocrisy that took the better part of John Mahama to commit
this heinous crime of “pushing out” Professor Mills to become the President? If the current President, Vice President for
3 years 6 months is “tired of” being a Vice President, what about the people of
the Central Region? Are the people of
the Central Region also not tired of having Vice Presidents? Voters in the Central Region will be wiser
than John Mahama and his bunch of criminally – minded evil dwarfs in the NDC
think.
Voters
in the Central Region must and will vote in protest against John Mahama who has
denied them the Presidency and given them a joker, uninspiring Vice President
in the person of Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah Arthur.
The
Central Region deserves the likes of “Stubborn Cat” EN Arkaah, Dr. De Graft
Johnson and John Mills not subserviency to John Mahama.
If
the case of the Central Region is pathetic and unfortunate then that of the
Brong Ahafo Region is sad and regrettable. If there is one Region that has
suffered most during the Mills/Mahama and Mahama/ Arthur regimes then it is the
Brong Ahafo Region. The NDC regime has victimized the Brong Ahafo Region more
than any other Region in the last four years. Rather ironically, the NDC regime
has misused citizens of the Brong Ahafo Region to undermine the democracy,
unity and economic advancement of Ghana more than any other Region in the last
four years.
Contrary
to the provisions of the 1992 Constitution, Article 35 (on Directive Principles
of State Policy), Brong Ahafo Region currently does not have a Cabinet
Minister. Currently Brong Ahafo Region has only two Ministers-all not of
Cabinet status. As a matter of fact, Collins Dauda is the only Minister of
substance in charge of Transport. The other Minister is Mr. Alex Asum Ahensah,
Minister of Chieftaincy. Mr. Collins Dauda was initially made a Minister in
charge of Lands and Natural Resources only to be demoted in the only major
Cabinet Reshuffle in 2010.
Even
with Collins Dauda, it is so sad for people of Brong Ahafo. The animalistic
instincts of Collins are there for all Ghanaians to see. This wicked, violent
and barbaric person does not deserve an appointment in the name of the people
of Brong Ahafo. He is visiting mayhem on the people in Acherensua, Nkasemu and
Sankore with any justification. As his blood thirsty teeth and face show,
Collins is a Vampire always looking for the blood of innocent law abiding Ghanaians.
On
the question of dismissals, pre-mature retirement and victimization, Brong
Ahafo Region has suffered most under the NDC.
Great
sons of Brong Ahafo such as Nana Owusu-Nsiah (former IGP), Mr. Felix Ferkah
(former Chief Fire Officer), Mr. Gyimah (former MD of National Investment
Bank), Nana Adjei-Mensah (former Director of Budget, Ministry of Finance and
Economic Planning), Commissioner of Police, Mr. Ofosu Gyeabour (formerly
Regional Commander-NR and Director General Technical Services), Colonel Kwadwo
Damoah (former Director Manpower Planning, Ghana Armed Forces), Brigadier
General JK Nkrumah (former Deputy Commandant MATS), Brigadier General JK Forkuo
(former Director General Traning at GHQ), Colonel JK Kumah (former Deputy
Director General Plans and Development) and Group Captain Osei Kyeremeh (former Director of
Administration, Airforce Headquarters) among others were high profile citizens
of the Brong Ahafo who were victimized and pre-maturely retired, released or
dismissed from public service for political and ethnocentric reasons.
It
is for these and other reasons that the people of the Brong Ahafo Region would
vote wisely against the NDC. While the NDC elevated, promoted and gave numerous
appointments and positions to persons from their strongholds in the Cabinet,
public and civil service and political positions, the few that citizens of
Brong Ahafo had were taken away from them.
There
were more cabinet and non cabinet ministers and deputy ministers from the Brong
Ahafo Region in the NPP Administration of President Kufuor than the
Mills/Mahama and Mahama/Arthur regimes. Stalwarts such as JH Mensah, Professor
Ameyaw Akumfi, Kwadwo Adjei-Darko, Professor Gyan Baffour, Alhaji Moctar Bamba,
Ernest Debrah, Captain Nkrabeah Effah-Dartey (Rtd), Agyeman-Manu, Andrews Adjei
Yeboah, Thomas Broni, Cecilia Gyan, Ama Nyamekye and Ampofo, among several
others.
Today,
Brong Ahafo Region has only there Deputy Ministers out of which the likes of Dr
Hanna Bissiw are rather a shame to the region. The Ghana Armed Forces does not
have one Single Brigadier General or equivalent from the Brong Ahafo
Region.
The
President and his wife are claiming that a vote for John Mahama means a First
Lady for Brong Ahafo. That statement is true but the Brong Ahafo Region has
seen a better and First Class First Lady in the person of Mrs. Theresa Kufuor.
Mrs. Kufuor was a real mother of the nation. She was and is a decent woman by
all standards. She represented real womanhood in Ghana and Africa like Nana
Konadu.
Mrs.
Kufuor was an accomplished woman in her nursing profession. She had trained
academically and professionally in the United Kingdom with academic degree and
professional skills, competences, experiences and abilities. Can the same be
said of Mrs. Lordina Mahama, an Ordinary level School Certificate holder? Oh
No! Brong Ahafo Region had Mrs. Kufuor for eight continuous years as the First
Lady of Ghana with dignity, decency and respect.
What
is the hallmark of Mrs. Mahama?
It
is corruption!!! Where did she get money to go into estate development? Before
the husband became the Vice-President of Ghana, what was Lordina’s business
level? What was the capital structure and quantum of Mrs. Lordina Mahama’s
estate development business? Is it not by the ‘grace of the deals and connections’
of John Mahama that Lordina became a real estate developer overnight? Can
Lordina tell Ghanaians what she used her Ordinary level Certificate for? What
had Lordina been doing between 1985 and 2009? Ghanaians and especially people
from the Brong Ahafo are interested in that?
Did
anybody in Brong Ahafo see Mrs. Theresa Kufuor sharing T-shirts, pieces of
cloth, money, food items and other material things as Mrs. Lordina Mahama is
doing in the Brong Ahafo and other Regions? Why did Lordina not start sharing
those things from 2009 but waited until her husband’s bid to become elected
President? Why is Lordina not satisfied with her present undeserving
status?
The
people of Brong Ahafo have been cheated on two importance occasions as far as
educational institutions are concerned. In the 1990’s when the NDC government
decided to establish a Polytechnic each in the ten regions of Ghana; the
existing Sunyani Technical Institute was converted into a Polytechnic without a
provision for re-locating the original Technical Institute.
The
location, premises and facilities of Sunyani Technical Institute (SUTEC) were
converted into S-POLY thus denying the region any public Technical Institute.
All cries for the re-establishment of Sunyani Technical Institute or a public
Technical Institute any part of the entire Brong Ahafo Region fell on deaf
ears.
As
part of the propaganda of the Mills/Mahama NDC government, a sod-cutting
ceremony took place in 2010 to establish a Public University in Sunyani
(University of Natural Renewable Resources) alongside the University in HO.
Again,
the establishment of a Public University in Sunyani has led to the denial of
the people of Brong Ahafo the enjoyment of an existing public University. The
original School of Forestry which was made a Faculty of KNUST as a Faculty of
Renewable Resources under the Kufuor Administration has now been converted into
a yet-to-be-established University whereas Level 400 students of KNUST are
still on campus. The only thing that the propagandist government of the NDC has
done is to paint the buildings a dirty cream color instead of the original
beautiful green color. Not a single block or equipment has been provided. The
existing structures are to be used. Thus, just as in the 1990s, the NDC
government is deceiving the people of Brong Ahafo with the establishment of a
new University whereas in fact the Region is worse off because they have been
denied the use of an existing University while a dream of a new university has
just been conceived.
In
the event that the new university takes off, the net effect for the Region will
be zero-i.e. lose one university-KNUST and gain another university-UNR. But at
the moment, the Brong Ahafo Region is worse off as it has one institution less
on its inventory.
Unlike
the HO University where a real Management Team was put in place and some
infrastructural developments have taken place, in the case of Sunyani, no such
things have happened. Yet, the NDC is on top of the roofs trumpeting that it
has built two new universities, one for Brong Ahafo and the other for the Volta
Region.
As
if that was not enough, the NDC is falsely preaching that it would establish a
public university each in all the remaining reasons that do not have public
universities.
An
akan adage says that if the naked promises clothes for the wretched then the
wretched should first look at the naked to decide whether or not to believe
such a promise. The NDC is known for lies, deceit, deception, propaganda and
mendacity. One trusts the NDC at one’s own peril.
The
people of Brong Ahafo are reminded that their greatest enemy is the NDC. It is
the P/NDC that made a lot of prominent chiefs, businessmen, farmers,
academicians and professional of the Region poor or poorer. The Region has
suffered untold hardships at the hands of P/NDC.
Several
citizens of the Brong Ahafo were either killed or died as a result of the
harassment, victimization, intimidation, brutalities and barbarism of P/NDC,
their agents and officials.
Today,
true to its policy of divide and rule, the NDC is using citizens of the Brong
Ahafo Region to destroy the democracy, peace and security of the country. The
likes of Yaw Boateng Gyan, Aseidu Nkeitah, Collins Dauda, Boakye-Djan, Eric
Opoku, Hanna Bissiw as officials and Members of the NDC are deeply involved in
activities that are destroying the peace of the country, creating instability,
engineering and executing atrocities, barbarism, violence and harassment of all
magnitude and levels.
If
one listens to the tape of Yaw Boateng Gyan, the violence meted out on daily
basis by Collins Dauda, Eric Opoku, Hanna Bissiw, Kwadwo Nyamekye-Marfo and
Major Boakye Djan-all citizens of Brong Ahafo-then one is saddened that the NDC
is using energies that could have been channeled for better purposes into barbaric,
nefarious and negative purposes.
Again,
Aseidu-Nketiah is using his position as General Secretary and influence in the
NDC to launch verbal and physical attacks on all manner of persons and
personalities. Aseidu-Nketiah has also been insulting former Presidents
Rawlings and Kufuor with impunity. Aseidu-Nketiah has also been attacking Nana
Akufo-Addo incessantly without provocation and justification. Aseidu-Nketiah
has been threatening mayhem, fire and brimstone. He led NDC thugs and hooligans
in the 2008 elections to attack the Electoral Commission and Security Agents.
He has been organizing Ivoirians for violent atrocities and operations in
Ghana. Aseidu-Nketiah uses his contacts and relations in the Ivory Coast for
negative and violent purposes.
If
the actions, activities and behavior of the NDC officials, members and
Ministers in the Brong Ahafo Region are bad then those of Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan
are most reprehensible, unacceptable and disgraceful to the people of Brong
Ahafo and the region itself. Whereas the likes of the Yaw Gyans, Collins Dauda,
Eric Opoku, Hanna Bissiw, Boakye-Djan, Nyamekye-Marfo and Aseidu-Nketiah may be
disturbing, the peace, democracy, political and economic development of Ghana,
the actions and omissions of Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan, the Chairman of the EC,
goes to the fundamental roots and foundations of our 4th Republic
status.
The
conduct of free and fair elections may enhance and deepen our democracy and 4th
Republican status or the partial deliberate gerrymandering and rigging in
favour of the NDC by Dr. Afari Gyan and his EC would destroy our country
forever. For some inexplicable reasons, Dr Afari Gyan has been unnecessarily
stubborn, recalcitrant and unreasonable in the conduct of the 2012 elections.
So many things have gone on wrongly and distastefully through the undemocratic
and unreasonable conduct of Dr. Afari Gyan. The electoral register for the 2012
elections is not ready as at 26 November 2012 when elections are only days
away. That is the danger being created by Dr Gyan.
The
people of Brong Ahafo should vote for the NPP and against the NDC for all the
above reasons, maltreatment and disgrace meted out to the Region and its people
by the NDC and its notorious citizens from the Region. Brong Ahafo and Central
Region should vote wisely for the NPP and not the NDC.
