Quote: "So do these things happen under Kufour? How come the media has never been able to pick any of them? How come that none of the human rights activists ever picked them?" End of quotation.
Massa, why the surprise? Do you not know that this is a nation full of moral cowards - who will never lift a finger to go to the help of brave souls like Fremaa Busia: who stand up against the tyrants we elect to rule us every four years in the elected tyranny masquerading as a constitutional democracy?
You question the media's strange silence. Why, do you not know that large sections of the supposedly free Ghanaian media, the fourth pillar of government in true democracies, who ought to be society's watchdogs, have sold their consciences to our political class (across the spectrum!), and are now the guard-dogs protecting the vital interests of the few powerful and tribalistic crooks who dominate our political class?
Just why do you think that online news websites such as www.ghanaweb.com are so popular with discerning Ghanaians, both locally and overseas - who are so fed up with the never-ending spin they have to put up with, with out traditional media?
Massa, why do you think that Fremaa Busia is suffering the same kind of abuse of her human rights that those who were penned in the Gulags, which the Soviet communists used to repress dissidents, suffered from?
Today, is that sane, decent, brave and stunningly beautiful young woman (who so obviously loves her country that she is even prepared to risk her life for it!), not being slandered by the powerful and crooked Mafioso, which she spurned – and who have declared her a nutcase: just to enable them hide their shameful and outrageous behaviour?
Did Stalin and Co. not also label dissidents as psychiatric cases - and dump them in mental asylums to rot away: many for the rest of their natural lives? Massa, today's clever tyrants use very subtle methods to oppress their critics - unlike yesterday's tyrants who were more upfront about their contempt for democracy.
There are many Ghanaians who have come to the rather painful conclusion that President Kufuor is the most hypocritical leader we have ever had the misfortune of electing into the high office he now occupies.
That quintessence of an African stooge for neo-colonialism and lackey of Western commercial interests, our "Hypocrite-in-Chief", is more Catholic than the Pope - and is leading a regime busy asset-stripping Ghana, in one opaque privatisation deal after another: even as privatisation has become a dirty word in the nation that more or less invented it, the UK.
On top of all that, he has also succeeded in dividing our country along tribal lines, like no other Ghanaian leader has - imposing his megalomaniac tribal Chiefs on our country, a unitary Republic.
Personally, and like many other decent and independent-minded Ghanaians, I do not care one jot how many members of his own tribe this "Kokofu-football" superstar appoints to positions in the public sector: as long as they are qualified - because they are all Ghanaian citizens too. So that is not an issue for people like me.
However, as a patriotic Ghanaian and a "de-tribalised" nationalist, who believes in the enterprise Ghana, I do care passionately and deeply resent, his use of the machinery of state, to promote the treasonable ambitions of some of his tribal chiefs – pride-filled and short-sighted men, driven by unfathomable greed: whose overweening ambitions pose a real threat to the stability and cohesion of our homeland Ghana.
How can anyone who truly seeks to create a meritocracy in a 21st century African nation-state such as ours, possibly help to promote the revival of feudalism in Nkrumah’s Ghana, I ask? Why, do they want to turn ordinary people into serfs - forever dominated by inadequate men and women: some with the IQ's of morons, who owe their leadership positions in society solely to inherited privilege? Pure nonsense on bamboo stilts!
The issues Fremaa Busia raises in her crusade against the dark tribal-supremacist forces in the presidency go to the very heart of what plaques our nation - the fact that we are ruled by men largely without honour who are basically not trustworthy individuals in their private lives: and should never be allowed to guide the affairs of any nation that is a society underpinned by common decency.
That is the tragedy of our country, Massa - and that is why we have now become a nation full of "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" myrmidon-types, who wear blinkers permanently and are too thick to think and too blind to see the horrors going on today: as our beloved mother Ghana is brutally gang-raped by philanderers who are also unabashed misogynists.
Massa, there are many in this country, who will tell you that Fremaa Busia’s revelations are veritable floodlights that shine through the miasma that has enveloped Ghanaian politics, like nothing else has done, since the present incompetent crowd lied their way into power in 2000!
The even bigger tragedy for our country is that the present incompetents will succeed in lying their way back into power again - due to the foolishness and shortsightedness of all the parties in opposition.
If the opposition parties continue as they are, rather than coming together quickly (even at this late hour!) and making a strong-willed and competent northerner (because it ought to be the turn of northerners to assume the presidency, too, now!), like Dr. Edward Mahama, their presidential candidate, with the brilliant and well-spoken Ms. Hanna Tetteh as his vice presidential candidate (of say a new United Peoples Democratic Congress - or whatever confounded name they choose!), they will wake up to a rude awakening, on the morning after the December 7th elections.
It is hard to fathom, why, rather than regard themselves as the progressives in Ghanaian politics who ought to unite to beat the neo-conservative crooks now ruling us, they choose to continue deluding themselves that they can win power alone as single parties – an impossibility against a determined incumbent regime with no scruples whatsoever, dominated by a few powerful and tribalistic crooks, fearful of the many skeletons in their cupboard-of-many-sins, coming to light, were they to loose power in December 2008. Pity.
Hmmm, Ghana - eyeasem oo: entiyeawiye paa, enia? Asem ebaba debi ankasa! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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