DO NOT DISHONOUR THE LATE BAAH-WIREDU'S GOOD NAME!

I was astonished to learn that the former finance minister in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) regime, the late Mr. Baah-Wiredu, is apparently being blamed for the disappearance of the sale and purchase agreement document covering the purchase of Kaiser Aluminum’s stake in the Volta Aluminum Company
Limited (VALCO), by the government of Ghana. How absurd. No one must be allowed to dishonour the good name of a man who is no longer alive to fight to protect his good name. The late Baah-Wiredu was a meticulous gentleman, who was well-known for scrupulously following the rules governing society – so why would he take such an important document out of his office: and presumably arrange for copies of the document to disappear from the surface of the planet Earth as well, I ask, dear reader? Those who have reason to want the said document to disappear permanently must bow their heads in shame for their perfidy.


Perhaps if the president were to quickly order the Serious Fraud Office and the secret services to do an audit of the assets (including the residential properties!) of VALCO, to find out if there has been any asset-stripping there that has led to some of its assets being sold to third parties, that might shed some light on the motivation of those who want that document to be lost till the end of time. Another thing the current government could do to help it unravel this particular mystery, would be to ask the present parliament’s minority leader to outline the processes that led to the railroading through parliament of that mother of all frauds, the sale and purchase agreement for VALCO by the grandly named consortium, International Aluminum Partners (put together by the powerful and greedy crooks who dominated the previous regime). At the time, Mr. Kyei Mensah-Bonsu (who was then the Majority Leader of Parliament), told the media, when it emerged that Norske Hydro and VALE, the two international metals conglomerates that were said to be buying VALCO, were strenuously denying ever agreeing to purchase the company, that the majority benches in parliament had done what was required of them, and that they were not to blame when those who were supposed to “deliver” had "failed to do so.”


Precisely what did he mean? Who were those who had failed to “deliver” and had been unable to inveigle Norske Hydro and VALE into agreeing to the terms offered by the crooks who were seeking to personally benefit from the sale of VALCO to International Aluminum Partners? The question that many of the independent-minded Ghanaians known as “floating voters” would like to ask the Mills regime is: What is a more clear-cut case of criminality waiting for prosecution, than the gigantic fraud against the Ghanaian nation-state by the powerful crooks who dominated the previous NPP regime, that the railroading through parliament of the sale and purchase agreement for the purchase of VALCO by that legal fiction known as International Aluminum Partners, represents? The Mills regime must never forget that those who are behind the disappearance of important documents from sensitive government departments, are driven by the same base motives that drove the ruthless politicians, who happen to be the political forebears of the present NPP – those well-educated and violent disciples of that odious Akan tribal-supremacist organization known as the National Liberation Movement (NLM).


The present regime must never forget the fact that a powerful cabal made up of a few greedy and ruthless individuals, dominated the NPP regime throughout its tenure, and used their period in office to exploit our nation’s economy for their personal benefit. It enabled those callous individuals; the members of their family clans; and their cronies; to increase their net worth to stratospheric heights. Many of them are now using some of that same wealth to frustrate the current government – through a combination of clever manipulation of the legal system to protect their ill-gotten wealth, and winning the sympathy of the Ghanaian public, through the zealous agency of the many mercenaries who people the Ghanaian media world: who sold their individual consciences to them for zillions. President Mills must understand that those types of Ghanaians are ruthless and amoral individuals who are determined to use every weapon available to them to destroy his regime – so that the NPP is returned to power again in 2012. He and the members of his government must be equally ruthless in dealing with the very real threat they pose to his regime. Above all, the president must not be fooled by their hypocritical smiles and the empty platitudes they employ to hide their real intentions from him. He must never allow them to dishonour the good name of the late Baah-Wiredu, who was a good and honest human being who served his homeland Ghana faithfully. A word to the wise…



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