Opanin, I refer to your www.ghanaweb.com general news web page comment (www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=150462&comment=4055344#com)
Opanin, yes, perhaps you may very well have important questions to ask Mr. Kweku Baako and Co. when they return to Ghana, eventually - but please leave out the insults to Asantes. For, that is totally unjustified. Massa, always remember how such hatred ended up spawning the pogrom in Rwanda.
You must always make a distinction between ordinary Asantes and the few greedy and powerful tribal supremacists from that part of our country, who exploit the pride ordinary Asantes justly have in their unique culture and their history.
There are tribal supremacists in all the ethnic groups in Ghana, without exception. However, thankfully for the rest of us, those narrow-minded and misguided individuals, always form only a tiny minority amongst their own tribes men and women.
Opanin, ordinary Asantes, like ordinary Ghanaians from other ethnic groups, do not care one jot about the ethnic extraction of their fellow citizens of the Ghanaian nation-state, whom they interact with on a daily basis. What they care about is the personal integrity of their fellow citizens - whom they have to deal with on a daily basis, at any point in time, in their lives.
Personally, for example, I do not care how many Asantes the current president appoints into official positions in the public sector of our country: as long as they are qualified - because in my view they are all Ghanaian citizens, too.
What you and I, as well as all decent and fair-minded Ghanaians, ought to condemn, is when those who rule us, favour their own tribal chiefs at the expense of other chiefs in our country - and abuse their power by using the state machinery to promote the selfish ambitions of those tribal chiefs: feeding and humouring their tiresome and absurd megalomania and carrying on as if there were no other tribal chiefs in Ghana, apart from those ridiculous and pride-filled personages.
In that sense, our current president is the worst Ghanaian leader we have ever had the misfortune to have elected into office in our country.
He has literally helped the treasonable ambitions of some of his tribal chiefs, in their absurd desire to revive the feudal entities their predecessors once ruled over, in the pre-colonial era, by stealth.
Our current president's unholy alliance with some of his tribal chiefs, is treasonable and as inimical to our country's interests, as any plot to overthrow the constitutional order. Period.
Opanin, please do not insult any ethnic group in Ghana, ever again - for, we are all one people with a common destiny.
Presumably you live in the UK - surely, you do not welcome the insults and prejudice of the British National Party (BNP) white supremacists in the UK who look down on people of colour: and sometimes murder them for that reason? So please do not do fall into the same narrow-minded trap too, in your dealings with your fellow human beings.
As for Mr. Kweku Baako and his friends they are only doing their job, in accompanying our "hypocrite-in-chief" to the USA.
What we must all condem is the insensitivity of the regime which only a few weeks ago was telling Ghanaians that it needed to sell Ghana Telecom because we were on the brink of a financial catastrophe - for, it is their profigacy that is responsible for the outrage. In the fullness of time, I am sure Mr. Baako and Co. will make full disclosure of the per diem each one of them received.
In any case, this is not a nation in which any secrets can be hidden from Ghanaians. Have we not just 'discovered' that the entirety of our gold reserves have secretly been sold off (if the bush telegraph is to be believed, i.e.!)?
That is a serious matter - and we shall demand full disclosure, item by item, of precisely what the proceeds were used for, if the story turns out to be true. Rest assured that any individual who has participated in the on-going gang rape of mother Ghana, will pay a heavy price for it, some day.
No one can recklessly cause financial loss to the Ghanaian nation-state today, and get away with it, Opanin. Ghanaians aren't fools - and no one should underestimate them: especially those whom they elect every four years to serve them!
Hmmm, Ghana - ayeasem oo: asem ebaba debi ankasa. May God bless our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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