Re: “One More Reason Why The NPP Must Go!”

Opanin, your article entitled: “One More Reason Why The NPP Must Go!", which appeared in the features web page of www.ghanaweb.com, on Saturday, 22 November 2008, makes very interesting reading, indeed!

Massa, believe me, there is enough wealth in our country, today, to make every Ghanaian citizen have a good quality of life - and have it now: not tomorrow. Yet, there are millions of poor and hard-up Ghanaians who struggle daily to survive and to make ends meet in Ghana today, simply because we have allowed an unjust and unequal (dog-eat-dog) society, in terms of equality of opportunity, to evolve in Ghana.

Today, ours is a society in which the politically well-connected, who are showered daily with ample opportunities that others do not have, have the effrontery to label their fellow compatriots (who exist without any opportunities ever coming their way, throughout their existence in the hellhole that Ghana has today become), as “lazy” people - and still manage to get away with that affront to common decency. Why so, you might wonder, dear reader?

Well, it is because our nation is full of world-class moral cowards: too cowed by the ruthless hypocrites now ruling our nation, to speak up on behalf of the disadvantaged - in a nation in which such huge disparities in wealth (most of it fuelled by corruption and the crime-riddled international cocaine trade), persists.

Massa, ever since the overthrow of Nkrumah in 1966, we have been ruled mostly by people with an elitist worldview: veritable bean-counters who know the price of everything under the African sun, but the value of absolutely nothing, of worth, in life on the surface of God’s blessed planet, Earth. Their sole aim, on a daily basis, is to send their personal net worth into the stratosphere: preferably through secret joint-ventures with foreign carpetbaggers from the neo-colonialist powers.

It has therefore always been in their personal interest to create a political and economic environment in our country, in which a powerful and greedy few prosper mightily - whiles the rest of their compatriots end up in penury: as part of the collateral damage caused by the ruthless exploitation of their country’s wealth. A case in point is the glaring difference in outcomes that South Africa and Ghana have experienced in the exploitation of their deposits of gold.

For, whereas South Africa has built cities like Johannesburg on the back of its gold production, the history of Ghana’s gold mining industry, is littered with examples of hell-on-earth degraded patches that blot the face of its landmass - such as environmental pollution hotspots like Bonte, Prestea and Obuasi.

Massa, the process of governance, pared down to its essentials, for these callous individuals, is rule by an elite: that grabs every opportunity that comes its way - to enable them make zillions of hard currency in kickbacks and sundry rip-offs, whiles their nation is impoverished as it is ruthlessly exploited by clever foreigners.

These foreigners are enticed into our country with a cornucopia of tax-breaks: and they work in close collaboration with their local elite collaborators, those stooges for neo-colonialism and the lackeys of Western commercial interests, to gang-rape Mother Ghana.

They do not care one jot about the results of their actions on their fellow human beings and on the natural environment - otherwise, how can those well-educated imbeciles even begin to think of tearing down the Atewa Mountain Range rain forest?

Why, does every little primary school child in this country not know that that biodiversity hotspot contains billions of dollars in yet-to-discovered medicinal plants and other green wealth-generating possibilities, as well as sustainable bio-resources for rural dwellers in particular to harvest - and which future generations of our compatriots can also prosper from?

The outcome sought by those whose view of the nature of society is an elitist one, is what you describe so well in your article - which is jam-packed with the most egregious examples of the rip-off of our country, in your long list contained in that sad litany of woes.

That is precisely where those mostly tribalistic and materialistic philistines, have landed us: a hellhole in which the “haves” can only prosper at the expense of the “have-nots” and our homeland Ghana.

To help them achieve their collective goal, have they not toiled hard, day and night, and spent zillions to assemble that awesome army of tiresome “My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong” myrmidons that follow political parties with such lunatic passion - who wear blinkers permanently and are too thick to think and too blind to see, as their powerbases, to help them reach that repugnant end that they all seek for themselves?

That is why, Opanin, daily, across the airwaves of FM radio stations up and down our country, we constantly have to put up with those tiresome buffoons and sycophantic serial phone-callers - forever phoning into current affairs discussion programmes, to sing their masters’ praises, almost always off-key (because they are so tone-deaf and impervious to reason!).

Who hasn't ever been shocked by the warped thinking they often display? Do they ever cease to astonish the decent and independent-minded Ghanaian citizen, with their inconsistencies and their illogical reasoning - that forever seeks to justify today's obscenities with the fact that they also occurred yesterday?

Question is: Why on earth do these world-class morons think we voted yesterday's masters of the universe, out of power, I ask, dear reader? They are the moronic-fringe in a cast of idiots who are the political equivalent of cannon fodder: zombies who exist for the sole purpose of being led down the garden path by politicians who have their eyes focused firmly on the main chance: pole position in Ghanaian politics.

They are a vital and necessary evil, which plays an important part in the strategy of the cynics - ever-willing supine foot soldiers, who enable the selfish and dishonest crooks amongst our political class, to pole-dance their way up the symbolic greasy-pole of power: after the poor blind fools have gorged themselves silly, fed daily on a diet of lies and empty promises, by the dissimulating rogues amongst our political class.

So just what makes you think that the party that will replace the powerful and tribalistic crooks in power today (into whose hands Nkrumah's Ghana has now sadly fallen!), will be any different from the present shambles of a regime - one deliberately trumpeted as Africa's success story by foreign leaders with an agenda of their own, from the developed world?

Massa, only the clueless actually believe them. For, they are just clever self-seekers, who are simply anxious to find as many pliable African leaders as they possibly can to do business with, at a time when the West must find reliable alternative sources to Middle Eastern oil and natural gas: ditto a time when the EU has to find pliable alternatives to ensure that Russia too does not have a monopoly over Europe’s energy supplies: which it could use to strangle Europe at a time of crisis.

Massa, what we eagerly await today, is the 21sth century civilian equivalent of the 4th June, 1979 military uprising. For, now, more than ever, when oil and natural gas revenues will start flowing in earnest within the next decade it is important to have leaders whose mindset doesn't make them stooges for foreign powers and the lackeys of Western commercial interests - who understand that Ghana must follow the example of Venezuela: not Trinidad and Tobago, as our "Hypocrite-in-Chief" seeks to force down our throats.

To benefit fully from our oil and natural gas deposits, we must nationalize those bourgeoning new industries (our oil and natural gas industry i.e.) : so that their revenues can be used to transform Ghanaian society into the African equivalent of the egalitarian societies of Scandinavia.

We must pay the foreign oil companies fair compensation and rid ourselves permanently, of their baleful influence in our politics, and seize control of that diminishing source of wealth (and we must learn the formula for dealing with that from Venezuela, too - not the Western and Caribbean nations that the clueless crowd currently mismanaging our nation's wealth, have approached thus far!).

It is vital to ensure that Ghanaians, not the fat-cat shareholders of foreign oil and natural gas companies, are the only ones to benefit in any significant way, from God's gift meant to give Ghanaians a second opportunity to transform our now-divided society (after the unfortunate demise of Nkrumah's regime - thanks largely to the CIA and other Western intelligence agencies: and our local stooges for neocolonialism!). Period.

We must use that gift of providence to create a caring and sharing society in which we all have access to good quality world-class education (free to the gifted who cannot afford it, no matter how poor their families might be relatively), good quality housing available for rental at affordable rates to those who cannot presently afford to own their own homes, and funding for all social entrepreneurs with brilliant ideas that benefit society generally and benefits its core group-players financially and materially.

We can let the Ghanaian nation-state issue the government of China with sovereign bonds as our up-front payment of capital and running costs for joint-ventures between the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) and the best-resourced state-owned Chinese oil companies on a 70/30 per cent basis in GNPC ‘s favour.

The crooks amongst those who rule us today, will never favour such deals because they make no room for their confounded (I would rather own 1 per cent of a billion-dollar company, than be a 100 per cent owner of a 100 million dollar company, to paraphrase our "Hypocrite-in-Chief”!) special purpose offshore vehicles, which they use in their secret partnerships with those foreign carpetbaggers whom they sell our state-owned assets to: assets built with the blood, sweat and tears of ordinary working Ghanaians. Yes, those of us who love her must shed tears indeed, for Mother Ghana, Opanin.

Hmmm, Ghana – enti yewiaye paa, enia? Asem ebaba debi ankasa! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!