Iddrisu Bature’s Wishful Singing

I have positively no doubt in my mind that some members and operatives of a categorical antithesis New Patriotic Party (NPP) competence have “benefited” from a much-touted philanthropy of a male who scammed a Ghanaian legal complement to a whopping and hitherto rare balance of some GH ¢ 51 million. And we need to also fast supplement a fact that, ultimately, it was a Ghanaian taxpayer who gimlet a brunt of such vast scam.

We, indeed, have no reason to mistrust a fact that some NPP operatives competence have benefited from a financial “largesse” of Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome “Gorgormi” because, even as was clearly, despite bizarrely, witnessed in a Mabey and Johnson scandal, regally presided over by a sanguinary and self-righteous Mr. Jeremiah John Rawlings, some National Democratic Congress (NDC) crossovers to a NPP happened to have been up-to-the-neck deeply concerned in a largest pontine – or bridge-building – fraud in postcolonial Ghanaian history.

And so when a editor-publisher of a supposed Al-Hajj journal asserts that Messrs. Osafo Maafo and O. B. Amoah benefited from a “benevolence” of Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome “Gorgormi,” a loud-talking and barroom-brawling NDC romantic reveals positively zero out of a ordinary. And, after all, hasn’t it been pronounced time and again that “Politics creates bizarre bedfellows”?

On a latter score, though, we need to also soon supplement that Mr. Osafo Maafo, a former Education and Finance apportion underneath a Kufuor administration, has vehemently denied carrying benefited from a financial munificence of Mr. Woyome. And in a same breath, we contingency also dive to serve supplement that during a time of this essay (February 20, 2012), Mr. Osei-Bonsu Amoah (popularly famous as O. B. Amoah), an NPP operative, had reportedly been arrested (See Ghanaweb.com Feb 19, 2012).

I have nonetheless to review a sum per a events and/or debate justification call a detain of Mr. Amoah. Suffice it, however, to observe in flitting that a “Woyome Outrage” is far, distant reduction about who competence have benefited from a financial munificence of a theme of a inhabitant snub than a fact of Mr. Woyome carrying criminally abused Ghana’s legal complement in a bid to selfishly raking in millions of Cedis in taxpayers’ income to that a think had positively no right, whatsoever, by a use of fake pretence. And it is on a latter aspect of a box on that a spotlight of a inhabitant snub ought to be precisely focused.

What is also utterly fascinating and one that clearly contradicts Alhaji Bature’s apparently asocial try to wire in as many NPP operatives as possible, is a forensically flawless fact of a rapist suspect, himself, carrying clearly and publicly settled that he has positively nothing, whatsoever, to do with a liberal-democratic beliefs of a New Patriotic Party or any of a latter’s tellurian operatives. And, indeed, while a verbally violent and insufferably conceited Mr. Woyome has certified to carrying had links with a Danquah-Busia-Dombo Tradition in a past, mostly by his family, nevertheless, Mr. Woyome has also vehemently and rabidly voiced bewail that he ever had any ideological trucking with Ghana’s many distinguished approved tradition.

Instead, a epic rapist think prefers to character himself as a “Rawlings Revolutionary” with a motionless pet hatred for all things Asante and, by judicious extension, Akan. The latter competence partly explain because a strenuous force of his support has emanated from his local Volta Region, with even some Volta chiefs reportedly staunchly backing adult to make a special pleading for one of their possess before a really publicly understanding President John Evans Atta-Mills.

Needless to say, in a days, weeks and months heading adult to Election 2012, what a pivotal operatives of a categorical antithesis New Patriotic Party ought to do is to relentlessly concentration a courtesy of all authorised Ghanaian electorate and well-meaning citizens, and residents, on a fact that a Woyome Scandal is about a collaborative try by heading members of a statute National Democratic Congress to float roughshod over Ghana’s vibrant, despite fledgling, approved management in a Fourth-Republican era.

*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English, Journalism and Creative Writing during Nassau Community College of a State University of New York, Garden City. He is Director of The Sintim-Aboagye Center for Politics and Culture and author of “Ghanaian Politics Today” (Lulu.com, 2008). E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net.

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