A BRIEF NOTE TO OHEMAA CARO!

Ohemaa, tu wa dwenimu, na da! The only way we can stop Ghana's oligarchs, whose unfathomable greed has ruined our nation steadily over the years since the overthrow of Nkrumah in 1966, is for ordinary people to bring the 4th Republic to an end - and usher in the new 5th Republic! Period.

The ordinary people of Ghana (as opposed to our grasping oligarchs: now masquerading as believers in democracy, when in reality they have foisted a two-party dictatorship on us!), will then put in place a new system, which will be designed to serve the interests of ordinary people and their nation. And that is the ethos which will also underpin the new 5th Republican Constitution.

It will be a document that will be drastically different from the 4th Republican Constitution: which was designed specifically to protect the interests of those whose treasonable actions, led to the demise of the 3rd Republic - and the political party they had the audacity to use state funds to create.

And although they think they have gotten away with their illegal actions of the 31st of December 1981, in time, the ordinary people of this potentially great nation, will definitely "do" a Pinochet on every single one of them, one fine day soon: and it will be "pay-back-time" big time!

And the fanatical "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" imbeciles of both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), can shout till the veins in their necks pop out: we will never compromise on meting out just punishment for the crimes against humanity, committed by the greediest and the most ruthless, of the leaderships of their two political parties: who have been leading the gang-rape of mother Ghana.

How can we possibly be expected to allow them to continue to get away with such an abominable and unspeakable crime against humanity, dear reader - a beastly crime which has been going on unceasingly right through their nearly sixteen years in power, in the "crook-dominated" 4th Republican era, in our homeland Ghana?

So let those politicians (from across the spectrum!), who are constantly cocking a snook at ordinary people, with their ongoing ruthless and unprincipled rip off of our nation, beware.

They must remember, when they make their arrogant and ugly noises claiming to believe in transparency and accountability, when they so clearly and patently don't, that ordinary people in Ghana, are not fools, and if I may use local parlance: let them always remember that: "No condition is permanent!"

Ohemaa, I boldly predict that one fine day in the not too distant future, ordinary people will finally rise up - and sweep away our greedy ruling oligarchy (which masquerades as a democracy although it is anything, but!): which has arrogated to itself the power to gang-rape mother Ghana, on a daily basis, at will, and with total impunity.

No fears, Ohemaa. We will not depend on the goodwill of foreigners in exploiting our oil and gas reserves. For, we will simply nationalise the whole of our oil and gas industries. Period.

And we will pay off all the private foreign companies from the West, such as the Tullow Oils, fair compensation (but we will issue them with Ghana government sovereign bonds, not cash - for we are neither morons nor imbeciles!) and send all the oil company executives and their ilk packing: back home to their racist countries.

Let them go home and look for slightly more honest work - not the ripping off of Africans-type of work they are currently engaged in!

And whiles we wait for that glorious hour to arrive, we will demand from the next crowd of highly-educated imbeciles who take over the reins of power from the current greedy and ruthless crowd, that mandatory laws are swiftly passed to require web-cams to be positioned at strategic locations on all oil rigs operating in the 200- mile economic zone within Ghana's territorial waters.

That way, ordinary Ghanaians can simply go online and monitor activities on those rigs on a 24/7 basis. And we can all make sure that no one is secretly shipping tanker-loads of oil out of our waters: as is said to go on elsewhere in the sub-region - and has even been known to occur here on occasion too!

And we shall employ the same perfectly legal tactics the clever Russians have used to wrestle control over their oil and gas deposits, back from the foreign carpetbaggers, who took advantage of Russia's temporary weakness after the death of communism, to grab some of the Russia's gas and oil fields!

The takeover of all our oil and gas fields are non-negotiable future facts on the ground - and some of us are even prepared to die to ensure that.

Ohemaa, Ghana's oil and gas wealth, unlike that of nations like Nigeria; Gabon; Chad; Equatorial Guinea; Congo Brazzaville; and Angola, will never be used to enrich the well-fed, fat-cat foreign shareholders, of Western oil companies such as the Tullow Oils and their local lackeys.

Why, is it not a fact that those well-paid local lackeys of the oil companies here have sold our birthright to foreigners for a song?

And do they not work day and night in air-conditioned glory (at our expense!) to make our nation fertile hunting grounds, for foreign carpetbaggers - whiles poor Ghanaian mothers see their children die from preventable health conditions?

As far as Ghana's patriots and ultra-nationalists are concerned our nation's oil wealth will be used for the sole purpose of transforming the Ghanaian nation-state into Africa's equivalent, of the egalitarian societies of Scandinavia, in places like: Denmark; Sweden; Norway and Finland. Period.

We will never allow that wealth, mother nature's bountiful windfall profits reward for a long-suffering people (frequently led up the garden path, by dishonest regime, after dishonest regime), to be used to enrich the foreign shareholders of the Western oil companies operating here.

And why should we be expected to put up with a situation in which whiles those pampered souls go on living in suburban comfort in their home countries, we, are expected to stand idly by, as Ghanaian children die of the effects of malnutrition and malaria: simply because they come from poor families and live in a poor nation blessed with huge oil and natural gas deposits? No! Never!

So let those foreign oil companies whom our political and business elites have joined forces with to rip our nation off, understand, that their time will soon be up!

Our oil wealth will be used to clear up the mess created by the local stooges for neo-colonialism: who have held sway in our country ever since Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's overthrow in 1966 - and have turned our homeland Ghana into a version of hell on earth: in which the politically well-connected forever prosper, whiles ordinary people grow ever poorer.

So, today, alas, our nation has become a hell-hole, in which the politically well-connected grow ever-wealthier, whiles ordinary peoples' quality of life steadily deteriorates in inverse proportion to the obscene and stratospheric increase in the wealth of our "uber-high-net-worth" oligarchs - as millions of ordinary people, now reduced to penury, struggle habitually in a wearisome daily search for safe potable water, for their household needs.

Ohemaa, how can it be that things have been allowed to come to such a sorry pass for Ghana's Mobrowaa, to the extent that today, potable water has become a precious commodity - and is as valuable as gold: an outrageous situation that is allowing water-tanker owners too to reap where they have not sown.

No, Ohemaa, we have nothing to be grateful to those lackeys of neo-colonialism for, believe me. How can we be - when they have more or less sold our country to sundry white racists: who swoon around our country as if this was the last outpost and last stand of apartheid's cold war race-warriors?

Nkrumah's dream was to have a thriving state-led mixed economic model, which Singapore borrowed successfully from Nkrumah, to power far ahead of what has today become the world's most benign environment for exploitative neo-colonialists: post-Nkrumah Ghana.

The farsighted Nkrumah wanted to create an egalitarian society similar to that of the Scandinavian social model, in which a socially and environmentally responsible private sector, consisting of honest and caring capitalists - who serve, not loot, Ghana and Ghanaians - made up of a combination of local private entrepreneurs and principled and honest investors from the West (and elsewhere!), who would partner the Ghanaian nation-state to create Africa's own unique indigenous egalitarian social model.

That society which genuine and committed Nkrumaists still want to see developed here, will be similar to that found in Scandinavia - in which there is no discernible difference between the quality of life of the very rich and ordinary people.

So no bloody fears, Ohemaa. Genuine Nkrumaists will create that model of a sharing and caring society as a shining example for other African nations.

And even if some of us have to die in the process to help bring that about in a new 5th Republic, well, so be it, Obaapanin!

The key to creating that paradise on earth Ohemaa, is to nationalise our oil and gas industries, as quickly as we can - so that unlike the wholesale transfer overseas of the wealth from our gold deposits, the wealth from those gifts from Providence to ordinary Ghanaians (our oil and natural gas deposits!), stays in Ghana - to make up for their long years of suffering in Ogyakrom. Period.

And if any weak-kneed and faint-hearted individual or group, wants to blather on about the legal implications internationally, of such action, we will say to them: "Stuff the international community: they can go hang!"

Just where were they when our oligarchs were gang-raping mother Ghana: under the direction of the World bank and IMF ( both "teleguided" by super-wealthy neo-con ideologues foisting free market solutions on us: just to make our resources available to private corporations from the West)?

We will end their control of this important strategic national asset, by getting the best resourced and most technologically advanced of the state-owned Chinese and Russian oil and gas companies to replace them: and partner the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to tap those oil and gas deposits here - on a 80/20 split in favour of Ghana.

And the Chinese and Russian oil companies will be asked to fund the operations of the joint-venture in exchange for 20% stakes: to be paid for by issuing them Ghanaian sovereign bonds - as we are neither fools nor morons!

Even the youngest Nkrumaists in primary schools across our country, know that today nations with depositsof oil and natural gas, are becoming increasingly protective of those most valuable of strategic national assets - so why should we act as if anyone is doing us a favour drilling for oil, off our shores, I ask, Ohemaa?

"So, case closed, Ohemaa Caro: asem asaah!" - as we say in local parlance! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!