ARE GHANAIANS GETTING FED UP WITH THE UNFATHOMABLE GREED OF SOME OF THEIR RULERS?

"The government further noted that construction of the George Bush Motorway along the site provides an ideal opportunity to transform the area into a high density commercial centre property to improve the outlook of the city and provide the private business community with opportunity to expand their businesses. Government's position also supports the Ghana Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy objective of making the private sector the engine of growth." Amazing!

The statement above, put out by the clever sophists, who daily dress up the ugly face of the greedy ones amongst our rulers, observes: "that the outcome of these consultations" were that the "Achimota Forest remains essentially intact" and "the portion being returned interfaces the motorway and the forest and represents a mere five per cent of the total." Incredible!

Have we not learnt any lessons from wrongfully siting that monstrosity, the shopping centre causing traffic mayhem at the Tetteh Quarshie interchange? So what sense is there in saying it: "...provides an ideal opportunity to transform the area into a high density commercial centre property to improve the outlook of the city and provide the private business community with opportunity to expand their businesses." So just who do these well-educated morons think they are fooling?

Is the new monument to the most unpopular president in America's history, that war-monger and mega-economic-failure, "Dubya" Bush, not supposed to speed farm produce to Tema and the Accra international airport, amongst other things - so why build a sodden shopping mall there: just to send the already high personal net worth of the crooks amongst our rulers into the stratosphere, I ask? What perfidy!

Is it not amazing, how for years, since the overthrow of Nkrumah, that seductive and innocuous-sounding phrase, "making the private sector the engine of growth", has been used by successive groups of greedy crooks ruling our country, as a cloak to hide the unfathomable greed that drives them - so as to give their rapacious nature respectability?

Obviously, the spin doctors paid to hide the perfidy of the greedy crooks amongst those presently ruling Nkrumah's Ghana, have returned to town from their junketing abroad at taxpayers' expense. They have moved swiftly and have set about making sure that they use the most soporific language possible, to ensure that their paymasters do not miss the great opportunity that this deal represents - and, above all, make sure that public disquiet doesn't stop their paymasters from grabbing this prime site for their infernal shopping mall.

So they are now in full flow, giving a patina of respectability and coherence, to the massive effort underway to find a way to justify the daylight robbery, which the rogues in the presidency (who are using their position to milk Ghana dry through various special purpose vehicles: i.e. the opaque offshore companies they are using to launder their kickbacks), are so determined to carry out - using the Nii Owoo family as a cover for their lust for super-wealth.

The usual Orwellian-phrases deployed by the regime's spin-doctors are so true to type: "The government further noted that construction of the George Bush Motorway along the site provides an ideal opportunity to transform the area into a high density commercial centre property to improve the outlook of the city and provide the private business community with opportunity to expand their businesses. Government's position also supports the Ghana Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy objective of making the private sector the engine of growth." Interesting!

So there we have it - naturally, it talks about the "private sector" being the "engine of growth", and then goes on to tack on the phrase "Government's position also supports the Ghana Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy objective of making the private sector the engine of growth" to lull those who are concerned about "poverty reduction" into happy sleep-land - and hope that that will sway them.

Well, being one of the many daft people in Ghana, I am wondering whether the poor are now going to be given the opportunity to build shopping malls, to banish their poverty, perhaps? Will the government go to America again to source funds from the American government for that purpose - as they say they went to America and were able to "source" funds for rural electrification?

Will the money for those poor people, who might be given the opportunity to build shopping malls as a wealth creation strategy under the GPRS, be funnelled through J. P. Morgan Chase too, perhaps - so that the crooks now holding Ghana to ransom can get their kickbacks from the crooks in J.P. Morgan Chase: who know a good thing when they see it delivered on a silver platter - especially by dump but powerful African kleptocrats? Really.

Why, do these well-educated morons think we are all "dumbos" in this country? Are the United States and the other wealthy nations of the Western world not busy using their taxpayers' money to bailout banks, insurance companies and other financial services sector companies - in order to stop their economies from melting down completely?

So what is this nonsense on bamboo stilts and lame excuse that the "private sector" is the "engine of growth" that is being bandied about to help justify the unjustifiable? This land-grab, perfectly illustrates the mindset of the greedy ones amongst the men and women now ruling us, who really do not believe in democracy - but merely use it as a cloak to enable and empower an elite group of greedy and amoral tribal supremacists (who think they are clever enough to dominate Ghana till kingdom come).

Well, if they think that they can use their positions in government, to send their already high personal net worth into the stratosphere through such deals, then they must just pause awhile - and remember the fate of the crooks who reigned supreme in the days prelude to the June 4th 1979 military uprising.

They must not tempt fate - and provoke an uprising by ordinary people: completely fed up with the outrageous, grasping ways of their rulers. They must always remember that we are not all the tiresome and partisan "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" myrmidon-types, who wear blinkers 24/7 and are too blind to recognise truth, even if they bumped into her, in broad daylight, at the Asafo market. A word to the wise...

Hmmm, Ghana - eyeasem oo: asemebaba debi ankasa! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!