Pure nonsense on bamboo stilts - Mr. Fela O. Fela, why disparage God's own creation thus: "...besides, the man is too short to be president."
This really is plumping the depths of appalling bad taste - and taking our nation's "unthinking-blind-partisanship" to ridiculous levels.
What, in heaven's name, has height got to do with outstanding leadership? Was Napoleon Bonaparte the tallest man of his era? Is Mr. Nicholas Sarkozy the tallest man in France today? Hmm, Awuradze, whatever next?
As someone with a little knowledge of human psychology, I can say with a fair bit of certainty, that precious few independent-minded voters (the so-called floating voters!), will be swayed by such disgraceful diatribe, Opanin.
Decent independent-minded folk, the type of voter the good and decent-minded Professor Mills ought to win over, to add to those like you (or are you perchance cleverly doing the NPP's "dirty" work for them?), who are already committed to voting for him, to enable him to win in December 2008, are getting increasingly sick and tired of the "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" myrmidons - who pollute our nation's public discourse, with such monstrosities.
Opanin, what would benefit the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and all the other political parties, most, would be for their supporters to offer them good advice - which will enable them win in December.
A few examples, Mr. "Fela -O-Fela" (hmm, Mr. "Al Omar Fedayeen", would probably be a more apt nickname for you, sir!): Get Professor Mills to publicly declare the personal net worth of his wife and himself - and state that he will do so again at the end of his tenure: and get all his ministers to do same too.
That, my brother, will put clear blue sea, between the good professor and all his opponents!
Ask him to tell Ghanaians that he will scrape the absurd new stars-and-eagles "gong" the current hypocrite-in-chief (Mr. Rawlings being the nation's number-two-hypocrite-in-chief!) has instituted, as soon as he is sworn into office.
Opanin Fela, instead of pouring such dreadful insults on your fellow human being, concentrate on telling Professor MIlls that he will be wise to promise Ghanaians that he will nationalise Ghana's oil and gas industries, and pay fair compensation to the foreign companies now drilling for oil off our shores: but that he will do so by issuing them with Ghanaian government sovereign bonds, not cash (afirese Ghanafuo enye nkwasiafuo!).
Let him promise us that under his regime, Ghana will seek 80/20 joint ventures in Ghana's favour, with the best-resourced of the state-owned Chinese and Indian oil companies - with them providing working capital upfront, till kingdom come, for a share in our oil bonanza: afirese Ghanafuo enye enkwasiafuo!
Please advice Professor Mills to promise the nation that he will never permit his dear young son Kofi to become a teenage hotel tycoon overnight - by using his father's influence to get a consortium of banks led by ones in which the Ghanaian nation-state has significant stakes in, to loan him millions and millions of US dollars.
Tell Professor Mills to promise us that he will take Ghana Telecom straight back from Vodafone (whom, as we speak, are being boycotted by over 50, 000 UK mobile phone recharge card sellers: because Vodafone has suddenly cut the size of their commissions: without any consultation whatsoever - thus leading to a loss of valuable income for those "resellers"!) - and prosecute Vodafone for buying off some of the greediest of Ghana's politicians: if that turns out to be the case, after the deal is gone over thoroughly: as a prelude to returning it back to its rightful owners, the good people of Ghana!
Do please tell the good professor that at his swearing in, he should tell the world that he intends to end the grand larceny of our political class, once and for all, by probing the previous regime thoroughly. And that he will make sure that every single politician who abused the trust of ordinary Ghanaians, during his or her tenure in office, is exposed.
You must entreat Professor Mills to tell the nation that he will not spare the crooks amongst our current leaders, who abused the people's trust so disgracefully, when they were voted into power by the good people of Ghana in 2004: and that he will make sure that every single one of them who is discovered to have dipped his hands into the public purse unlawfully, is tried and jailed - and that under no circumstances will he pardon such common criminals.
No, not when there are thousands of ordinary Ghanaians languishing in our ghastly and inhumane prisons, who are serving long jail terms for stealing domestic animals, out of desperation (although that, my brother, is no excuse - a thief being a thief: whether he lives in a chi-chi presidential palace or a hovel in a slum at the ever-filthy Agbogbloshie area of Accra!).
Instead of insulting Mr Akufo-Addo, please use your energies positively: by telling Professor Mills to tell Ghanaians that because Mrs. Rawlings had the gall to say she would no longer treat him, their party's presidential candidate, no less, and a man destined to be Ghana's next president, with kid gloves, he will no longer be consulting Mr. Rawlings day and night, as he had once said he would.
And why, you might ask, should he say so? Well, because he, Professor Mills, unlike so many Ghanaians who lack self belief and whose serf-mentality makes them worship people with light hues (now there you have it, my brother: the psychological reason for so many people's awe, of, and absurd obsession, with, Mr. Rawlings - and the reason for his tiresome arrogance in thinking he is smarter than all Ghanaians put together! Hmm, ayeasem oo - and what bloody effrontery, too!), does not lack self confidence, at all!
Ask him to go on and tell Mrs. Rawlings and her arrogant crowd, that because he, Professor Mills, is a proud black African with self-belief in abundance, and is not the the type of black African who is awed by people with light skins and Caucasian blood coursing through their veins, he therefore will not tolerate any lip from either her or her husband, when he becomes Ghana's next president, one bit.
And furthermore, that he will force both her and Mr. Rawlings into exile, if need be: if they don't leave the running of Ghana to him - whom the good people of Ghana, elected to rule them, in December 2008!
Opanin "Fella-O-Fela", if those who feel passionately about their parties and their presidential candidates gave such advice, they will find that it might help sway the fair-minded undecided voters: who are the ones who, in the final analysis, will decide who becomes Ghana's next president.
Bad-mannered insults never works in a nation such as ours - in which ordinary people instinctively shy away from the vulgar and uncouth.
Opanin, ordinary Ghanaians care about good manners - so please do be careful. Just belt up - if you cannot be civil! Be smart: out-think and outsmart your opponents. And above all, never descend into the gutter, my brother. Hmm, Ghana - ayeasem oo!
May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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