Despite the lengths that Ghana’s tribal-supremacist politicians go to
destroy the unity of our people, our ethnically-diverse homeland Ghana
still remains a united unitary Republic – and always will.
When politicians resort to coded language – in order to avoid censure
and public opprobrium – to tell Ghanaians that unity cannot be forced,
what exactly do they mean by that pure nonsense on bamboo stilts?
Who is forcing whom to unite against their will, in a Ghana that
still remains a united country, and whose ethnically-diverse citizens
share a common identity and destiny as Ghanaians – and all of whom
care deeply about their nation’s well-being and want to see it
progress?
Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: tribalism is a dangerous
anachronism in a nation in which the vast majority of ordinary people
live together side by side in harmony, and all want to see their
country’s resources exploited for the benefit of all sections of
society – not just a selfish and powerful few with greedy ambitions (to
paraphrase President Nkrumah of blessed memory).
Those who seek to exploit the sentimental attachment most Ghanaians have
for their ethnic group’s cultural heritage, for short-term political
gain, will always fail in that abhorrent aim.
Their quest to further the secret agenda of some of today’s misguided
and delusional descendants of our pre-colonial tribal ruling elites –
who seek to dominate our nation by stealth, and hijack its system in
order to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of Ghanaian
society – will never succeed.
Ordinary people in Ghana are not fools. They are aware that by every
measure, no tribe is superior or inferior to another in their country,
in today’s cosmopolitan and globalised world.
By definition, are tribal-supremacist individuals not narrow-minded
people, cursed with antediluvian mindsets mired firmly in the Dark
Ages?
Just as they did in all the pre-independence elections of 1951, 1954 and
1956, when they overwhelmingly rejected the arrogant and
tribal-supremacist politicians of the colonial era, the vast majority of
ordinary Ghanaians are decent-minded, discerning and intelligent
enough, to reject those who think that somehow they have a divine
right to rule the ordinary people of Ghana – and thus constantly seek
clever ways to loosen the deep bonds that unite us as a people, for
that dark purpose.
Yet, this is a constitutional democracy in which the enslavement of
others and ritual murder to “darken” stools are regarded as crimes
against humanity – and is a nation in which the discerning are fully
aware that inherited privilege is the greatest enemy of meritocracy.
Let them do their worst. It is not surprising that that abominable and
provocative statement that unity cannot be forced, came from the lips
of a sly and ruthless man, who when he led our nation, saw his
tenure as a golden opportunity to foist his tribal Chieftain on our
multi-ethnic society (which aspires to be a meritocracy), as its de
facto monarch.
And no wonder he once complained, in the most petulant of fashions,
that the Upper West Region’s capital of Wa, was “too faraway” – and
this, dear reader, from a politician who throughout his eight years in
office as President, did not hesitate to travel to the ends of the
world, whenever the opportunity to do so, presented itself to him.
(So perhaps it is not that difficult to fathom why his harshest critics
describe him as the most dishonest and hypocritical individual, ever
elected to lead Ghana, since we gained our independence in 1957. But I
digress.)
Despite their endless machinations and evil genius for deceiving
others, tribal-supremacist politicians must understand clearly that
Ghanaians will remain united, regardless – and indeed always will!
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