It is not surprising that controversy has errupted in Ghana, over the inability of the senior male national soccer team, the Black Stars, to progress from the group stage of the 2014 Federation of International Football Associations' (FIFA) World Cup tournament, in Brazil.
As a result of the national soccer team's failure in Brazil, the forces of darkness in Ghana are cock-a-hoop.
They have latched on to what is a national humiliation - and believe that they finally have the adminstration of President Mahama on the ropes: reeling from delivered-blow after delivered-blow, as the country experiences one strike after another and public demonstration after public demonstration, by sundry groups.
Naturally, the lackeys of the forces of darkness in Ghana's print and electronic media are also in heaven. They are ecstatic. Their joy at the discomfiture of the Mahama administration is palpable - and can be gleaned from the sarcasm in the voices of a number journalists who broadcast on the airwaves of radio stations like Peace FM and Joy FM.
One hopes that those who currently lead our nation, have now cottoned on to the fact that the forces of darkness in Ghanaian society are hard at work sabotaging their regime - as they have done every progressive regime that has ruled Ghana since March 6, 1957.
If the intentions of the forces of darkness towards our homeland Ghana were honourable and benign, they would not be seeking to create conditions similar to those that prevailed during the winter of discontent in the UK, between 1978-1979 - which led to the defeat of the then British Prime Minister, Jim Callaghan, in the general elections of 1979.
What is currently happening in the Ghana of today, is akin to the Labour government's disarray resulting from the endless strikes by trade unions in the UK, during the aforementioned period - and public anger with the Labour Party arising from that, which led to its defeat by the Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher, in the 1979 general elections.
If they loved Mother Ghana, instead of formenting trouble across the country, the forces of darkness would rather be advocating for a new kind of politics in Ghana - to demonstrate that they cared about the plight of ordinary people, and the well-being of our country.
If they cared about Mother Ghana, the forces of darkness would be demanding a new kind of politics in which individual politicians publicly published their personal net worth (as well as the assets of their spouses), and political parties published the sources of party funds utilized for election campaigns, and used for running them in periods between elections. That would help limit high-level corruption, would it not?
The truth of the matter, is that such is the perfidy of the forces of darkness that they would malign even a regime led by God Almighty - regardless of the fact that it had Jesus Christ, the Prophet Mohammed, the Buddha, the Dalai Lama, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Angel Gabriel serving in it as cabinet ministers.
And were God to be elected as Ghana's president and make the mistake of bearing the name John Adam Musa-Wangara, and informing the world that he hailed from Gusheigu in the north of Ghana, they would resist his regime - because to them it is an abomination to be ruled by someone from the north of Ghana. Incredible.
Alas, the contumely of the forces of darkness did not start today. It was on display during the fight for independence, before Kwame Nkrumah was invited to the Gold Coast colony in 1947, by the quislings who made up the leadership of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC).
The main goal of the progeny of the pre-colonial ruling elites who made up the UGCC's leadership, was to dominate the independent nation that they wanted to see succeeding the British colonial government. To enable them do so, they planned to limit the franchise to property owners and those who earned a high wage.
Their hope was that access to power in a nation-state in which only property owners (and high wage-earners) had the vote, would be limited mainly to the elite in society - giving that stratum of society the dominant role they previously had in the pre-colonial era.
It is that disgraceful attempt to prevent the adoption of universal adult suffrage, which Kwame Nkrumah demanded for the masses that today's progeny of the forces of darkness have sought to hide, by deploying the clever and innocuous-sounding phrase, "a property-owning democracy".
The fact of the matter is that the forces of darkness in our country have always believed that they have a devine right to rule our people - which is what motivates the ruthless and sly Bernard Antwi Boasiakos in our midst (they of the gold-at-any-cost-and-damn-the-environmental-consequences Weltanschauung).
It is also the reason why as early as 1958 they plotted to overthrow the Convention People's Party (CPP) regime of Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah in a military coup - even though Ghana was a multiparty democracy: and despite the fact that the CPP had won all the elections held in 1951, 1954 and 1956.
Today, those forces of darkness are busy sabotaging the nation-building effort, in order to destabilise the Mahama adminstration. Sabotage has replaced the bomb-throwing-terrorism of the Nkrumah-era: because they know that they will quickly become global-pariahs were they to resort to bomb-throwing in their bid to supplant the Mahama regime.
Paradoxically, the debacle in Brazil that has made our nation the laughing stock of the world, is an opportunity for President Mahama's regime to hit back hard, at the forces of darkness. If the Mahama admistration were wise, it would carry out a thorough investigation, into the events in Brazil, which led to the disarray in the camp of the Black Stars.
Above all, they must find out from journalists working for the UK newspaper the Daily Telegraph, who accused the president of Ghana's Football Association (GFA), and others, of agreeing to participate in match-fixing, what exactly is the relationship between the government of Britain and the English Football Association, as regards payment (if any) of winning bonuses and appearance fees to officials and players of their national soccer team.
It will enable us all discover why the GFA, which says that FIFA rules frown on state inteferance in its affairs when it suits it, still insists on relying on Ghanaian taxpayers to bankroll the Black Stars, when they play in international matches, such as those they played during the 2014 FIFA World Cup tournament in Brazil. And, best of all, it will stop the forces of darkness from exploiting the debacle in Brazil for political gain, at our homeland Ghana's expense. A word to the wise...
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