Ohemaa, if your Mr. Kofi Adams had allowed it, one would have had a more meaningful conversation with you - to ascertain what you think you can do differently as Ghana's president, which hasn't already been done, or isn't being done now.
For example, do you want to be president because you want to make our homeland Ghana, the first nation in the world, to allot one-half of the seats in its Parliament to women - and get a constitutional amendment passed to that effect during your tenure? Ditto the cabinet?
Do you also want to abolish personal income tax, and make Ghana the nation with the lowest corporate tax rates in Africa - because you believe that the most practical way to create jobs in Ghana, is to make this the most attractive place in Africa, for those interested in investing in emerging markets?
Can you also assure us that you will have a law passed that makes tax-evasion a crime punishable by a mandatory jail sentence - to ensure that all those who run businesses in Ghana, contribute their quota to the development of the nation in which they earn their profits?
And will you also ensure that a law is passed to make armed robbery a crime which if convicted of, means one will serve a life sentence, literally - without the possibility of parole or a presidential pardon (as Kufuor did when exiting office!): to protect ordinary Ghanaian families from such dangerous and callous individuals?
And will you, as president, order the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) to prepare for implementation, as soon as funds can be made available to it, plans for a one million-strong national service component to the GAF - so that all young Ghanaians will do a compulsory two-year military service, to help Mother Ghana: by farming in GAF plantations nationwide?
It will help lay the foundation for a more disciplined society in our homeland Ghana - alas, a must, if we are to forge ahead in any meaningful way. Work with the Israelis, whose knowledge of raising and managing a citizen-army, is unmatched.
The Thai army also has a component set up by the King of Thailand, the sole purpose of which is the cultivation of vertiver nationwide. Leverage the Thai army's vertiver corps' skills too.
Will you also do a deal with the South Korean and Chinese governments, that in exchange for companies from their nations' being allowed to participate in our oil and natural gas industries, they will fund the construction of ten new green cities (designed for a sustainable-lifestyle - to comfortably accommodate and cater for 3 million citizens!), one each, in all Ghana's ten regions: on a joint-venture basis with the best-resourced and managed Ghanaian construction companies?
And will you also get the constitution amended to give every Ghanaian who cannot afford to build his or her own home, the right to well-designed and well-built affordable rental accommodation provided by District Assemblies?
And will you make access to those flats and houses based on participation in Department of National Lottery (DNL) draws - so that ring-fenced revenues from the DNL will fund the maintenance of those properties and also ensure fairness in the allocation of the properties - and prevent Kokofu-football politricks being played with this basic need of ordinary folk?
And can you also assure us that if elected as president of our nation, Ghanaians will not wake up to hear that your son, Kimathi, has put together a consortium led by state-owned banks, to loan him cash to purchase a multi-million dollar hotel - when in reality it actually is yours?
Can you also assure us that every time the executives of foreign oil companies pay you a courtesy call, friends fronting for you will not claim to be their local partners - and end up being allocated a 5 percent share in a bloc in an oil field somewhere off our shores?
And will you assure us that women will not be given appointments to important positions only on condition that they part their legs for the many misogynists in influential positions in Ghana?
And that furthermore, you will also ensure that no male in Ghana, including the type referred to by society as "big man" who rapes a female in any part of the Ghanaian nation-state, will get away with it - and will be prosecuted and jailed if found guilty in a court of law ? It is time we dealt with violence against women in Ghana, in all its forms.
Finally, will you set an example as president, by publicly publishing your assets - as well as those of your spouse and children: as your personal contribution to the fight against corruption in Ghana?
And will you also demand that from all who serve under you - to put a halt to the naked greed by those at the top of the greasy pole: which is now the silent-killer slowly destroying Ghanaian democracy?
And lest I forget: Do tell your Mr. Kofi Adams that he must have an open-door policy in as far as serious people from the Ghanaian media wanting to interview you goes - or your views on pertinent national issues won't go beyond your inner circle, Ohemaa!
PS Ohemaa, one hopes that were you to become president, we will not see a repeat of the nauseating spectacle, of an NDC president of Ghana, sucking up to the perfidious President Kufuor by welcoming him to the Osu Castle (and telling that greedy and selfish President Kufuor that he is welcome to his "office"- imagine that!).
President Kufuor, as you know, is said by many of his critics to be the most amoral, dishonest and greediest individual ever elected to lead Ghana thus far, since we gained our independence.
Some will suggest that you have a conversation with Nana Fremaa Busia to see the amoral nature of that ace-hypocrite. And probe to check estimates of the total amount he and the Osu Castle cabal received in kickbacks, and sat on, for confirmation of the charges against him. And that is only one set of his many alleged sins against Nkrumah's Ghana!
Of course, a number of your admirers will also caution you, and say that they also hope that unlike your party leader, you will not toady to President Kufuor's tribal Chieftain.
Naturally, this being Ghana, a nation full of moral cowards and ace-hypocrites, many of who know full well, but will not say so in public, that outside Kufuor's family clan, he, more that any other Ghanaian citizen, benefited the most, from Kufour & Co's profligacy, unparalleled corruption and egregious abuse of power. Hmm, Ghana -eyease o: asem kesie ebeba debi, ankasa!
Only heaven knows how both super-hypocritical gentlemen must be mocking your party's leader behind his back - for seeking solace in their 'friendship' from the relentless pressure you and your husband are piling on him. Poor man - how politically naïve and misguided can you get?
Incidentally, inherited privilege, as you well know, is the worst enemy of meritocracy - so keep all Ghana's Chiefs at arms length, without exception. Don't be sentimental about them - they hold the seeds of our nation's destruction. They are the last bastions of tribalism in our country.
Kufuor's unholy alliance with his over-ambitious tribal Chieftain, nearly destroyed the cohesion of our homeland Ghana - a modern and united African nation-state of diverse-ethnicity: of equal tribal groupings co-existing peacefully side by side (and inter-marrying frequently!): and none superior or inferior to the other. Thank goodness their party was turfed out of power, at just the right time.
And since we are being brutally frank, why do you and your friends not drop the absurd claim that your husband founded the NDC? Legally, no one individual can found a political party under Ghanaian law.
So why not stop using the obsequious phrase "NDC founder" and drop the daft Alice-in-wonderland fairy-tale that he "founded" the NDC? Why not simply say that he was the "inspiration for the formation of the NDC?"
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