It is extraordinary that ethical issues that border on near-criminal conduct, which would sink the political careers of many a politician, had they arisen in any of the Western democracies, are often glossed over by the Ghanaian media.
It has led to the unfortunate situation in which individuals who should never be allowed to govern our nation - because of character failings resulting from their lack of a moral compass - still do so regardless.
The result is the incidence of high-level corruption that we have witnessed in all the regimes that have governed Ghana since the 4th Republic came into being.
Any independent-minded, sincere and patriotic Ghanaian, who actually cares about the well-being of our nation, and the welfare of all its people, who reads the statement issued by Mr. Ohene Ntow, on 18/12/2015, entitled, "Reaction To Nana Akomea's Statement On The Ad Hoc Committee Of The NPP National Executive Committee", will wonder why the Peter MacManus, Freddie Blays and John Boadus are still leading and active members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The double standards of those who now dominate the NPP is truly shocking - as is their Kweku-Ananse-mendacity. One fears for the safety of our Republic, and for its future as a peaceful nation, if they ever get to govern it.
The NPP's director of communications, Nana Akomea's sophistry, in reacting to Ohene Ntow's minority report, after the work of the ad hoc committee set up by the party's national executive council - by saying that disbursement of funds from the NPP's Ecobank bank account at the Trust Towers branch, were solely for the Talensi by-election, when he knew perfectly well that that was not factually correct - truly plumbs the depths of political chicanery.
That dissembler would not last five minutes as a politician in any of the Western democracies - yet he is a kingpin in a party now sadly dominated by Tammany Hall Boss Tweed-style politicians. Carpetbaggers, to a man.
To quote an old acquintance of mine, "Kofi, the question we must ponder over is: If even before it wins power, a super-ruthless cabal in the NPP - made up of amoral plutocrats who by their Machiavellian conduct have shown clearly that they do not really believe in democracy - can disregard the wishes of those delegates who cast votes to elect the suspended national chairperson, Paul Afoko, and the suspended general secretary, Kwabena Agyapong, at Tamale, by using absurd trumped-up charges against them to remove them from their positions, then should Ghanaians not prepare for a fear-laden and intolerant 4-year period, starting from 7th January, 2017, during which persistent critics of the governing party in Ghana, will be hounded and persecuted, if not worse, should the NPP's candidate win the 2016 presidential election?" End of quote.
Well, some of us might say that that is a moot point. In any case, at some point, this blog will reproduce Mr. Ohene Ntow's statement for readers - so they can read between the lines: and see the hypocrisy and duplicity of some of those who now control the NPP, and the danger they represent to Ghanaian democracy, and to continued peace in our country, as well as to the long-term stability of our homeland Ghana.
When the upholders of truth and principle are hounded in a political party, which potentially could win power tomorrow, Ghanaian society had better beware. It is not a good sign.
Not when those doing the hounding are dissembling and intolerant individuals, with feudal mindsets, who have an arrogant sense of entitlement, which makes them think that dominating our homeland Ghana is their birthright - and a Divine right.
How can a few selfish individuals be allowed to proceed as if a major political party like the NPP can be manipulated and used as a special purpose vehicle that is a mere instrument for the attainment of an end sought by an overly-ambitious and super-ruthless family enterprise: the election of their family's hope for the presidency of Ghana?
That cannot be right - and must not be allowed to happen. Not in a genuine democracy.
If the fight to dominate the opaque and debt-ridden NPP is a fight about who ultimately controls the party's finances, then perhaps it is a harbinger of the kind of future ordinary Ghanaians can expect, should the NPP win power.
Alas, there are some who insist that it will be a bleak future in which greed and impunity will reach new heights, as some of the members of our ruling elites plunder our nation's wealth to replace the vast sums they have lost over the years, since 2008, till date, in funding the NPP's election campaigns - whiles a physically much-weakened leader, who though incorruptible himself loses his authority, and looks on helplessly, as some of those in his inner circle disregard him and do exactly as they please.
We saw that happen with the honest and incorruptible President Mills. The unfortunate results of that tragedy are there for all to see today. Could it happen again, if there is a change of government, in January 2017, one wonders?
The question is: Will those who say that Ghanaians will experience life in a cowed nation, in which a climate of fear exists, and persistent critics of the regime in power are persecuted in unprecedented fashion, be proved right - if the NPP's candidate for the 2016 presidential election wins power and assumes office after 7th January 2017?
Those of us who are foolish and unwise to such an extent that we fear nothing, and no one, will certainly not allow anyone to cow us, should the NPP return to power again after the 2016 presidential election. They will have to kill us first to shut us up.
And since our consciences are not for sale at any price, to either politicians or political parties, no one can buy us off too. We will always criticise their regime as long as it is in the national interest to do so, when they come to power. We are hereby serving them notice.
No matter how dangerous the climate of fear in a Ghana under the next NPP regime, and no matter how pernicious the persecution of persistent critics of that selfsame regime, we will continue to speak out against elite-thievery and the divvying up of our nation's wealth by a vampire-elite, regardless. Hmm, Ghana - asem ebeba debi ankasa.
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