WHY PROFESSOR MILLS’ POINTING OUT THE NUMBER OF PARLIAMENTARY SEATS NDC HAS IS TRULY SIGNIFICANT!

Ghanaweb.com fuor enyinaa, memamu Afiyhia paa oo! Massa, with respect, I think the significant of what Professor Milllet says escapes you entirely - sadly. May I humbly suggest that we all wait for the good people of Ghana (as opposed to the "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" myrmidon-types, who are too thick to think for themselves and too blind to see what is going on in our country, at any given point in time!), to speak finally on the 28th of December, 2008?

In the meantime, let me humbly point it out to you that in a sense, change has already occurred in Ghanaian politics. Since we are not operating a (Westminster-type!) parliamentary system of government, the political party with the largest number of seats in parliament, as opposed to a number of parties in parliament coming together to make up a majority that is a “coalition-of-convenience” (as some day-dreamers in Ghana apparently think!), will occupy the majority side in the next parliament.

This is yet another giant stride in our effort to make democracy a way of life in our nation – as opposed to a mere system with a set of moribund institutions manipulated by an unprincipled elite for their group interest at society’s expense. For, going forward, we will now see the notion of (a clear!) separation of powers working to protect the national interest in the next parliament: whoever becomes the next president of our nation – because such a tightly-configured parliament will definitely exercise its oversight responsibilities in the national interest.

This will mean that outrageous laws, such as the one that was railroaded through parliament recently to further the personal interests of the few powerful tribal-supremacist crooks in the presidency (who have had such an iron grip on the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) during the eight years of that party’s tenure in government unfortunately!), to sanction a sale and purchase agreement for a non-existent consortium of metal companies grandly christened “International Aluminum Partners” will never be allowed by parliament to be steamrolled through it by an amoral executive arm of government: determined to further the personal wealth-creation agenda of a powerful few with greedy ambitions (to paraphrase the great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of blessed memory!).

Massa, it will also be difficult for yet another crop of similar politicians holding office after 7th January 2009, and with the same mindset as that of the crooks in the presidency today (those selfsame amoral and ruthless monsters that railroaded that fraudulent sale and purchase agreement for VALCO through parliament!) to pass a law clearly at variance with the constitutional edict that commands all Ghanaians to fight corruption, not further it, that seeks to protect powerful and greedy crooks in the executive branch of government, by indemnifying those who put together privatization deals – such as that which was recently passed to indemnify those who put together that shabby deal for the sale of a 70 per cent stake in Ghana Telecom to Vodafone.

Massa, such a development will be a huge step in the fight against corruption in our homeland Ghana – so in that sense change has already occurred. That is why Professor Mills pointing out the fact that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has a majority of seats in the next parliament is truly significant. One hopes that that significance is not lost on a genius like your good self, Sir? Massa, mema wu Afeyhia paa.

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