The Insight Newspaper: Do Not Waste Your Energies On The NPP Regime!

Heavens, was our hypocrite-in-chief actually a school prefect at my alma mater, Prempeh College? Awurade Nyame.

Anyhow, why is The Insight newspaper so shocked and surprised by recent events? Our current leaders are very clever men and women, indeed.

Why, has The Insight forgotten that our hypocrite-in-chief started off at the beginning of his tenure, by telling ordinary Ghanaians that he was the one chosen by God to get Ghanaians to swallow the bitter pill of austerity - and that as a people, we would have learn to cut our coat according to the size of our cloth?

Well, that was when he and the other highly-educated morons had just taken over power (from yet another set of very clever and highly-educated morons), and hadn't the foggiest idea how they were going to run a more or less bankrupt national economy.

The magnitude of Ghana's external debt up till then, and the strain interest payments on that debt had on the economy, was of such a crippling nature that in effect they were more or less inheriting what amounted to a rolling empty national treasury.

(Incidentally, dear reader, and just as a matter of interest: our former military ruler, who cleverly morphed into a civilian politician, and became co-owner, with his better-half, of a whole political party set up with state funds - if the bush telegraph is to be believed - just to ensure his personal survival: and to protect the group interests of he and his henchmen, and who forever thereafter cut a daily dash in designer suits (in civvy street) happens to be Ghana's number two "hypocrite-in-chief"!)

But I digress. Hmm, amanfuo, before all those other well-connected Ghanaian morons (who also have their well-powdered noses in the "Greedy-Ghana-trough", and are busy "chopping Ghana small"), those asinine buffoons,  the "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" fanatical party political sycophants, and myrmidons, have the effrontery to ask why one dares to call our political elite morons, let me explain myself, dear reader.

Surely, one has to be a moron, to actually believe, as an African, that the Western neo-con ideologues who tele-guide the World Bank and the IMF from the corridors of power in Washington , London;, Frankfurt, and Tokyo, really have Ghana's long-term interests at heart?

Do those exploiters really want the good of our country, or are they here to seize golden (and juicy) free market opportunities for Western multinational corporations: by continuing to demand that moron-run nations like Ghana sell valuable state assets, such as Ghana Telecom - just to enable our leaders to make payment today, for senseless short-term needs, like the costs involved in that profligate outrage, that nonsense on bamboo stilts, that essay in extreme bad taste and vulgarityd known as the "national awards ceremony"?

And who can forget the idiocy of the leaders of a poor nation blowing millions of dollars on expensive luxury limousines for its Golden Jubilee Independence Day celebrations, and then promptly turning around and auctioning those self-same vehicles off to the selfsame oligarchs who are ruining ordinary people by their shameless and blatant profiteering in commerce and what little industry there is left, in Ghana today?

Are we not better off as a people, dear reader, spending scarce national resources instead, on worthwhile long-term projects, which will promote sustainable development today: and ensure tomorrow's common weal and national well-being?

And are there not countless beneficial long-term projects in Ghana today that are starved of vital funds, which only need a little seed money to benefit future generations of Ghanaians?

And if you ignore such important long-term projects to acquire outrageously expensive luxury items such a Gulfstream 11 presidential jet (bought on a lease with the "blood money" of Ghanaian peacekeeping troops, held in a New York bank account, as collateral, by the morons of yesteryear), what are you?  Are you not a moron, I ask, dear reader?

And if in the midst of unimaginable poverty, you also borrow money from India today, to build a presidential palace complex, and then look elsewhere for more loans to purchase two presidential jets in one go, with those sundry items (jets and presidential jets) totalling more US$ 300 millions - to be paid for in part by future generations in what is a very poor developing nation in which there is endemic poverty, what exactly are you, dear reader? Not a moron?

(And for all those who are honest souls and have eyes to see with, let them see the stark evidence for themselves: the brutal and painful facts on the ground across the nation - in shattered lives led without hope, in oft-deprived and blighted rural communities, displaced by callous and arrogant foreign surface mining companies: which have little respect for our nation and its people, and to whom unfortunatley, the greedy ones amongst our leaders are often beholden.)

Of course, we must always ignore what those who constantly bandy statistics about say to the contrary: for even little primary school children being fed dodgy food on a daily basis, know perfectly well that those statistics actually don't make any difference in the lives of real people - who have experienced a steady deterioration in the quality of their individual lives and don't need any well-educated imbeciles to tell them anything to the contrary.

And if you choose to argue with the parents of those unfortunate children, that on the contrary, the food that is fed to their children is practically haute cuisine, are you not a moron, I ask, dear reader? Hmm, Ghana - ayeasem o. But I digress.

Why is The Insight newspaper so surprised by the obscenity of a politician - still in office - awarding himself the highest national award: and wasting its energies over it?

Why, does the newspaper not know that ordinary people view all the goings-on at the seat of power at the Osu Castle with total contempt - and with  cynicism seldom seen in our country?

That contempt for our leaders amongst ordinary people, has been the direct result of the shocking and outrageous revelation - by no less a person than the ruling party's erstwhile chairperson - that our leaders were in fact engaged in the unlawful enterprise of collecting kickbacks from corporate Ghana.

That okro-mouthed personage then went on to reveal further, that his party had in fact also come up with an ingenious scheme: in which they would create today's New Patriotic Party (NPP)  equivalent, of yesteryear's National Democratic Congress (NDC) super corporate cash-cow, the J. Stanley Owusu and Cos of the Rawlings era - and merrily reap awuff money, to enable them build a suitably big party war chest: to ensure their continued hold on power.

Alas, what incensed the okro-mouthed personage above all, was that the most powerful people dominating the party, the Nkruwasifuo tribal supremacists (who now have a such an iron grip on the ruling party), were not following the agreed script: and were rather holding on to the precious funds generated by the party hierarchy's clever scheme and keeping all that lovely lolly away from the grasping reach of the rest of the hungry and very angry top echelons of the party hierarchy.

What decency does The Insight possibly expect, from the tribal supremacist Nkruwasifuo with such appalling bad taste: those unsophisticated philistines who think they know the cost of everything in Ghana that is good under the African sun, but in reality know not the value of absolutely anything of lasting value, in the nation Nkrumah built and kept united in his day.

And was that unity not achieved at some considerable sacrifice and cost to himself, his nuclear and extended families, and his fellow Nzimas: all of whom were more or less ignored by Nkrumah for Mother Ghana's sake - so that all the people of this country would feel that they were one people:  modern-day Africans with high asdpirations and a common destiny living in a united nation?

Yet, today, that  national cohesiveness has now sadly been torn asunder and into shreds - by the greediest and most tribalistic cabal ever to hold power in Ghana: and in the most treasonable of fashions, possible, too.

And has The insight forgotten the excuse that was bandied about at a certain stage, that the billions of cedis being voted for by our supine and useless parliamentarians, was going to renovate the Osu Castle - so that the hypocrite-in-chief and his family could live there? Does he live there now, as we speak, dear reader?

What does the paper expect from a leader, whose best friend happens to be the most perfidious traditional ruler ever to be allowed to occupy a major and significant stool in this country, and who has the effrontery to think that he can secede from the Republic of Ghana by stealth (treasonable even to imagine such a thing: let alone try to achieve it somehow by bluster), through the backdoor - with the active connivance of the powerful and amoral rogues who now dominate the ruling party?

Surely, such a politician is clearly a man without any honour, as far as ordinary Ghanaians who value the unity of their country, are concerned? If The Insight wants to know why such a leader feels a need to honour himself let it consider all of the above.

And if any sychophantic fool wants to be facetious, and have the gall to ask why any ordinary person should have the boldness to take up his or her pen, and speak with such a sharp tongue about our current leaders, let them go and ask our hypocrite-in-chief, why a daughter of no less a man than Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, Ms. Fremaa Busia, a professional of the highest calibre, and an honourable public servant with unquestioned integrity, a patriot working for the Ghanaian nation-state in a very sensitive job at the highest reaches of our secret services, today lives literally in fear of her life.

Let them also ponder why, rather than report to the gilded torture-house and unlawful arsenal, which Australia House has apparently become (if the bush telegraph is to be believed), the former minister for national security, Francis Poku, chose to flee the country, instead.

And please note, dear reader, that that infamous luxury mansion, Australia House, had actually been meant as a going-away present, for the hero of June 4th, 1979. Unbelievable.

And, incredibly, yesteryear's other set of morons (who now also seek a return to power - presumably to enable them continue from where they left off "chopping Ghana small" prior to losing power in December 2000) - spent over 10 million US dollars to renovate Australia House, which they had planned, amazingly, to give to the hero of June 4th, 1979: as a departing gift - from a "grateful" nation.

Surely, if those who rescued him from certain death, by springing him from that evil place, now known as the BNI headquarters, at dawn, on 4th June, 1979, had had the slightest inkling that nearly twenty-one years hence, then, their hero would become a man used to living the life of Riley at the expense of ordinary Ghanaians, they would have balked at mixing up with him?

And if they had also had any inkling that our number two hypocrite-in-chief, would some day come to acquire such expensive tastes, and that he was actually planning to live in such obscene opulence (and even taking the trouble to visit the place regularly to ensure that the renovation of his luxurious retirement abode would be completed on schedule and at vast public expense), would they simply not have left him to his own devices in 1979? Hmm, Ghana - ayeasem o.

Let The Insight newspaper not waste its time on our hypocritical elite - but rather find a way of making the Committee for Joint Action (CJA) become a new third force in Ghanaian politics: and provide a new home for true and genuine Nkrumaists, and all other Progressives, in our homeland Ghana.

It is time Progressives followed the example of: the political parties, sundry newspapers, private television and radio stations, which are funded by the Western intelligence agencies through perfectly legal fronts.

That phenomenon is a global effort in which selected individuals and entities are provided with billions of dollars across the globe, by the secret services of the West, to run front private corporations and non-profit foundations, which funnel funds to help keep the stooges for neo-colonialism in power in nations in the developing world, such as Ghana.

And as is well known, in our own homeland Ghana, sections of our secret services are pouring trillions of old cedis (obtained from their share of this Western propaganda effort), into entities and organisations locally to serve the interests of the ruling Establishments of the West in our country -  on behalf of the multinational corporations whose interests they ultimately serve.

For the information of The Insight, the Kofi Thompsons of this world too, would behappy to help the CJA, in this important work if approached.

Progressive forces in Ghana, ought to get close to anti-Western leaders like Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, asap - and get him to counter the West's continued financing of the stooges for neo-colonialism in our part of the world, who work day and night subverting our nation's vital national interests, in order to promote the strategic sub-Saharan interests of Western big-money.

We need to find backers from wherever they may be found, to fund and invest in the Progressive organisations, as well as committed and selfless individuals.

May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!