I nearly fell off my chair, when I read the first paragraph, of a Ghana News Agency (GNA) report: "Accra, Oct. 16, GNA - Government on Thursday, gave the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), a two-week ultimatum, to prove an allegation that President John Agyekum Kufuor owes more than five billion dollars to Kuwaiti Oil suppliers."
Well, we will wait for the two weeks to pass - and see the denouement of this juicy story. Still, you have to hand it to him - Mr. Andrew Awuni "really has more front than the Osu Castle" (to use the Ghanaian equivalent of a phrase much-beloved of the UK's Essex Man and Woman!). I simply had to laugh at the sheer audacity of that gentleman.
How very interesting - and how very typical of Ghana's dissimulating political class.The point (in case the many "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" myrmidons who flock to the general news web pages of www.ghanaweb.com to comment, and pollute it with their narrow-minded bigotry, have not noticed!), is just what the suave, sophisticated and smooth-talking Mr. Andrew Awuni, left out, in his clever little statement.
What is pretty germane to all this kerfuffle, is whether or not it is true that our president did vouch for the said Nigerian-domiciled oil company in a conversation with some of the senior executives of the said "Kuwaiti Oil suppliers." Ditto, whether or not the president (or his nominees!) actually does own a significant stake in the said Nigerian-domiciled oil company.
Mr. Andrew Awuni, if I have understood the gist of the GNA report quoted above correctly, did the president a great disservice.
As presidential spokesperson he ought to have refuted the "bush telegraph" stories doing the rounds: specifically, those which claim that the president spoke to senior executives of Kuwait Oil Company, and gave them assurances that more or less vouched for the bonafides, of the oil company he (or his nominees!) is said to have a significant stake in.
Clearly, it would be an outrage if it were true that a sitting president of Ghana had vouched for a private company in an international business transaction involving a Nigerian-domiciled entity - as that would amount to an abuse of his position and office.
That the clever Mr. Andrew Awuni failed to clear the air about the allegation that the president owns a significant stake in the said oil company, is unfortunate. He must do so - and do so quickly: in order to remove any doubt in the minds of ordinary Ghanaians, who expect their leaders to live above reproach! Period.
The Andrew Awunis of this world must always remember that it is not the "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" myrmidons, those fanatical political party supporters, blinded by the blinkers they wear permanently, who will decide the outcome of the elections, this December.
It is the discerning and independent-minded voters, the so-called "floating voters", who will decide the fate of his party - so he had better treat us with some respect: and tell us all the facts in this shabby affair (or outrageous slander and "non-affair", if that be the case, two weeks hence!).
Hmmm, Ghana - eyeasem oo: asemebaba debi ankasa! May God bless our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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