If widespread violence were to break out after the December 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections, I confidently predict that the next Flt. Lt. J. J. Rawlings will strike - and win the support of the Ghanaian masses to restore order: and house-clean Ghana thoroughly, following that.
Members of our political class delude themselves, if they think they have succeeded in fooling ordinary people, that what in effect is a plutocracy masquerading as a democracy, and dominated by wealthy oligarchs, ought to be supported and protected by ordinary people - regardless of the fact that the democracy dividend has consistently eluded them, since 1992.
The question is, why should ordinary people continue to support a corrupt system, in which their living standards have plummeted steadily, in inverse proportion to the stratospheric heights the net worth of a powerful, wealthy and ruthless elite, rises?
Ex-President Kufuor's scandalous retirement package, for example, is a classic example of the monkey-dey-work-baboon-dey-chop elite rip-off culture, which underpins the 4th Republic. That is why a 5th Republic must replace it.
That shameless and corrupt rogue, turned the Osu Castle into a kickback reception and distribution centre, and the nerve-centre of a massive patronage hub - slicing up the national cake to share amongst a chosen few.
From the seat of government at the Osu Castle, the award of contract upon contract - to the favourites of the tribal-supremacist cabal that dominated his regime for the 8 long and painful years they exploited our national economy for personal gain at the expense of the Ghanaian nation-state and ordinary people - was masterminded.
That period in our history, when unfathomable greed ruled OK, in Ghana, were the halcyon days of those shameless blackguards. It was an era of grand larceny, cleverly dubbed the golden age of business - by the greedy and amoral Kufuor & Co.
Those indeed were the days of plenty for a privileged few, when the African sun shone brightly on sundry nephews; cousins; crony-capitalist pals; bottom-power girlfriends and an assortment of other favourites, in the family clans of the ruthless tribal-supremacist cabal, which unfortunately dominated our country so completely, at the time.
If widespread violence breaks out, during or after the December 2012 elections, one hopes that a Flt. Lt. J. J. Rawlings (circa 1979) type of house-cleaning exercise, will be carried out by young, patriotic and nationalistic military officers.
Hopefully, that will enable those clever crooks, who once ruled Ghana, to be finally held to account. Naturally, it ought to be done in a manner that will ensure that none of them escapes justice - through the usual manipulation of the legal system.
Under no circumstances must their allies in the judiciary, be allowed to use their privileged positions to protect those swindlers and thieves by stealth - and enable them escape from paying for the brutal gang-rape of Mother Ghana.
So, I say to the next Flt. Lt. J. J. Rawlings: if the acolytes of such monsters unleash violence, which leads to widespread chaos, and loss of life in Ghana, during (or after) the December 2012 elections, do not hesitate to strike - and make all of them pay for their many crimes against the ordinary people of Ghana.
After that, take steps to replace the discredited 4th Republic with the 5th Republic - a new polity in which all will be truly equal before the law, and in which there will be equality of opportunity: a level societal playing field, as it were, which enables all who work hard - regardless of family background - to progress in life, so that Ghana becomes a nation in which honest hard work, always pays.
What ordinary Ghanaians are looking for, is a just society in which nepotism and inherited privilege - the greatest enemies of meritocracy and progress - are absent. That will be sweet revenge indeed, for ordinary people, were that to happen - so use any widespread violence that leads to chaos and death in December 2012, as an opportunity to exact that for them! A word to the wise...
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