Ghana, Election 2012: Foot Notes Of A CPP Foot Soldier

PLEASE NOTE: I intend this to be the final results of a collective effort. I am working very slowly but surely on this. Your comments are indispensable. Please come back to see the evolution of this work and give your comments. - Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

I am a foot soldier. I do not want to kill anybody. I am not running for office, but I am a soldier in the decision-making process. I represent myself. I do not delegate my opinions. After all, this is a democracy.  I am running for the respect of my rights as a human being as an end in itself, and not a means to an end. I am in this campaign because I know that if I can reach out to as many people who think like me, together, we can not only make a difference in the identification, defence, and the advancement of our common interests, we shall also prevail.

 This is not an invitation to friends and relatives, and people who personally like me. This is an invitation to all those who are sincerely burning with the desire for peace, social justice, human rights, the ecology, and social progress.
I want to see genuine peace and social progress.   I want to see the certainty of the law applied across the board to cover all, rich and poor alike. Throughout history, it is not the poor who call for war, it is the rich. It is also not the rich and the affluent who die at the battlefields, even though, they call the shots. It is the poor.The poor are often divided among themselves over which rich man to support in most electoral campaigns, instead of thinking about themselves.

If my current predictions are anything to go by, the 2012 race for the seat of government is a straight match between the incumbent, President John Evans Atta-Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo, the last presidential contender for the New Patriotic Party, (NPP). There are internal dynamics going on in both parties, which seem to indicate an impending voter-apathy. Depending upon the demography of strongholds, this can make the results a little bit tricky for either party.

There is no doubt that the Ashanti Region is the stronghold of the NPP. There is also no doubt that it is the region likely to score the highest number of apathy within the NPP, if one can go by the spate and depth of complaints from leading politicians of the party in the region. Likewise, the conflict between NDC founder, Ex-president Jerry John Rawlings and the President of the NDC Administration, President John Evans Atta-Mills is bound to ensure a voter apathy in the region. A large voter turnout from specific regions can only imply a conscious determination of a particular group of people to soldier on until the final victory. These are the people who are going to emerge as winners.

 Situational Awareness:


Climate Change And Natural Disasters.
A Just World Economic Order
International Solidarity, Cooperation, Peace And Friendship
Real and Present Dangers
The Pan-Africanist Struggle Today


  There are several reasons why I believe it is very important to veto the vaulting ambition of what I easily suspect to be the most dangerous political operator on the African continent today.


Is Akufo Addo Arrogant?
Do We Owe Rawlings A House?
Is There Democracy In The NPP?
On Whose Behalf Does The Danquah Institute Think?
What Makes J. B. Danquah A Sordid Bad News?
So What Have We Learnt From The Nkrumah Centenary?
All Hail The President, That Is An Order!

AKUFO ADDO: ARROGANCE AND THE SIN OF SPIN DOCTORS

Nana Akufo-Addo who comes off as the far more nimble and politically astute, even if he has also on occasion been accused of being a bit too forthright for the comfort of those who seem to prefer practiced (or theatrical) humility over competence and vigilance in Ghanaian politics. (Feature Article of Tuesday, 13 July 2010, Columnist: Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame, Alhaji Bature Is Only Being Facetious)

In the aftermath of the defeat of the NPP flag bearer by the NDC candidate, Professor Atta-Mills,  Gabby Ochere-Darko tried to put some spin on it:

"The political opponents of the Danquah-Dombo-Busiasts have always been better at saying, “Ghanaians don’t need a president who is arrogant and looks down on them. They need a president who stands up for them. One who feels their pain.” These words were successfully used against a man who for more than 30 years (more than any of his rivals in the 2008 contest) dedicated his time, money, energy and intellect to fighting for the cause of the masses – Nana Akufo-Addo, an Akyem aristocrat." (See: "Are Danquah-Busiasts Really Elitist?", by danquahinstitute.org, Wednesday, 18 November 2009.)

WAA LOOK: SEKOU NKRUMAH MUST THANK KUFOUR?

    
Avoka mate
Sekou is right but he should be thankful to democracy being practised in modern Ghana, thanks to Kufuor. If it had been his father's time he would have been sleeping at Nsawam Prison. He should be grateful President Mills for peacefully releasing him of his post. He should ask his father's ghost what J. B. Danquah did and his father sent him to prison to die.
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Whilst Kufour was a clear PNDC collaborator and Under-Secretary for Agriculture until he was dismissed by Rawlings, Dr. Sekou Nkrumah was the Regional Chairman of the Greater Accra Branch of the Movement for Freedom and Justice, the famous MFJ that spearheaded the struggle for the 4th Republican democratic order from the hands of a determined PNDC dictatorship. So it is grotesque to read: “be thankful to democracy being practised in modern Ghana, thanks to Kufuor.“ It is rather Kufour who has to thank Sekou, even for the very chance to be a president of Ghana.

As for J. B. Danquah, it is just a big pity he did not hang with the other co-conspirators who were involved in the ritual murder and a sordid human sacrifice crime in the early morning of Sunday, 27th February, 1944 at Kyebi. The plot to kill Nana Akyea Mensah was hatched in the evening of Saturday, 26th February, 1944, after a meeting involving all the principal players in the stool blackening ritual, ended in a confusion as they assembled for final preparations for the burial of the departed King. According to the case officer, ACP/Mr Nuamah, "the climax of the week-long funeral of the late Okyehene Nana Sir Ofori Atta I was set for Sunday, 27th February, 1944. The last rite marking the end of the funeral was the celebration of the WEREMPE custom, which was the act of blackening the stool of the late chief, formally making him "an ancestor in the line of kings."

The divisive issue was the question of which human being's blood was to be used for the ceremony. Present was the powerful Nana Akyea Mensah, Chief of Apedwa, and traditionally commander of the Okyehene's royal bodyguard. Nana Mensah quite clearly explained to his colleagues that times had changed. The colonial authorities at the Christianborg Castle in Osu had taken over the power of life and death from the chiefs. It was no longer possible for the chiefs to sit anywhere and condemn anybody – if they used any human blood in the ritual, the Gold Coast Police would arrest them.

This did not go down well with the Akyem fundamentalists who wanted human blood and considered Nana Akyea Mensah's intervention as an attack on their traditions and power. They opposed Nana Mensah. It must be recalled that since the return of Dr. J.B. Danquah from Britain with a Ph. D. degree in philosophy, precisely the period between 1927 and 1943, Danquah served as Ofori Atta s secretary, ambassador, and legal advisor (Attorney General). And that it was this position that gave rise to J.B. Danquah s political career. It was with his help that  Ofori Atta instrumented the Native Administrative Ordinance of 1927.  Naturally his advice would be sought in such a contentious issue, even if it were not for his conspicuous presence in town, also for the funeral.

J. B. Danquah, a member of the royal family and leading barister countered the authority of this "Kwaw Botwe" Krakyi (Akyea Mensah was not a lawyer, he completed his secondary education at Mfatsipim College as Emmanuel Ohemeng and and then worked as a clerk for the Akyem Abuawa State. The superior legal prowess of J.B. Daquah directed that the Akyem Abuakwa State was independent of the British Colonial rule, and the laws of Akyem Abuakwa State were not dependent upon British colonial law.


J.B Danquah encouraged and assured legal protection to the conspirators: Asare Apietu, Kwame Kagya, Kwaku Amoako Atta, Kwadwo Amoako, Kwasi Pipim, Opoku Ahwenee, A. E. B. Danquah and Owusu Akyem-Tenteng who were later found guilty of ritually killing Nana Akyea Mensah, and sentenced to death by hanging on the neck until declared dead.


An unexplained phenomenon was that after weeks of a blanket of silence as to the whereabouts of the disappeared chief, the culprits started recounting their own macabre story one after the other, in what they claimed to be under the compelling demands of the ghost of Nana Akyea Mensah, the Odikro. The ghost apparently did not rest until all those directly involved with the murder had been brought to justice, before he turned his attention to the accessories. There are reports that Danquah was often haunted by the ghost, and must have been killed by Nana Akyea Mensah s ghost. This, to me, does not contradict the autopsy accounts of heart attack, since an intense fear of a determined Akyea Mensah could not have produced anything less.


It was Danquah fighting his own devils in his own mind that finally proved his undoing. Danquah is not the only hard-core criminal to have died in prison for absolutely natural causes. It reveals a special form of radical stupidity to ask the descendants of law-enforcers and politicians to consult the ghosts of their relations who were around each time a criminal dies prison.

Further Reading:

    * A Murder in the Colonial Gold Coast: Law and Politics in the 1940s Richard Rathbone, The Journal of African History, Vol. 30, No. 3 (1989), pp. 445-461 (article consists of 17 pages) Published by: Cambridge University Press

    * Reap the whirlwind, Geofrey Bing, London, 1968.
    * An account of the Kibi Ritual murder case, (Educational Press and Manufacturers Limited, Accra, 1985.

   * "WHERE IS THE CHIEF?" A true story, concerning the ritual murder of Nana Akyea Mensah, chilling to the bone marrow that Gloria Yartey has scripted into a play.

Daily Post's Final Warning to Mr. Kwesi Pratt

I reproduce below a very silly attempt to silence Mr. Kwesi Pratt, Jnr, and predict without a qualm that it shall fail. - Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. Daily Post's Final Warning to Mr. Kwesi Pratt Date: 15-Jul-2010   Pratt Related Stories Editors of the Daily Post last night decided to drop one of their front-page stories which has to do with Mr. Kwesi Pratt Jnr, the Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper. The decision to drop the story, according to the editorial team, is to give Mr. Pratt the opportunity to mend his ways especially his treachery, double standards and hypocrisy which they say was becoming a vexation to the spirit. “We have time and again told Mr. Pratt that he has no moral right to attack Former President Rawlings. However, like a man living in a glass house but throwing stones, he is quick to attack the Former President on the very issues he, Kwesi, is more than guilty” Livingston Pay Charlie, Deputy Editor of the Daily Post said yesterday. “We are not unaware that Mr. Pratt is doing all that he has done so far to please Ato Ahwoi. We are serving him with the last warning to stay off Rawlings or get his ‘nose bludgeoned’ by us” Michael Dokosi, the Editor added. According to the editors, Ato Ahwoi has lost their respect for being a very divisive person within the NDC. They said they were ready anytime for his ‘dogs of war’ anytime he unleashes them, promising to deal ruthlessly with any of them who dare attack former President Rawlings unjustifiably. “As for Mr. Pratt, if he persists, we will ensure that not even the devil will like to be his friend. We shall expose him for the charlatan and trickster he is. We are going to be monitoring him on every radio network day in and day out especially on the ‘Alhaji and Alhaji’ programme on Radio Gold as well as on the Kokroko programme on Peace FM. We shall read each line of the contents of his newspaper, The Insight. If he attacks Rawlings unjustifiably, we shall reply him appropriately by setting the records straight,” Peter Kojo Apisawu, the News Editor of the paper quipped. The trio said they consider Pratt’s side-kicks, especially Okudjeto-Ablakwa and Omane Boamah as hummingbirds when it comes to politics and warned them to desist from attacking the founder of the NDC. “If they were taught not to respect their elders when they were in the NPP, they should realize that they are now in the NDC where elders command respect” Michael Dokosi stressed.

 
 
Source: Daily Post/Ghana

Comment: WE SHALL OVERCOME!!! Comment to: Obama's visit still generates huge American intererest Accra, July 14, GNA -

Comment: WE SHALL OVERCOME!!!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-07-14 18:01:29

Comment to: Obama's visit still generates huge American intererest Accra, July 14, GNA -

This is good news. Whatever it means. We have already been warned by Craig Murray to expect the worst if we do not allow Exxon-Mobil to twist our arms over the Kosmos oil deal. It is refreshing to read that the negative propaganda they have unleashed on Ghana have had very little impact, if any. The reports of the hiring of K. Riva Levinson and giving Ghana a bad press seem to have been outweighed by the generous comments by the White House about the political and economic health of this side of the Sahara.

We shall overcome!

Yes, We can!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

Cheers!
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Comment: HAHAHA! I SAW THEM THERE!!!

Comment: HAHAHA! I SAW THEM THERE!!!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-07-14 18:25:52

Comment to: CLOUD CUCKOO-LAND

I like to travel and explore different lands. In one of my travels I saw an elderly Ghanaian couple smoking weed under a short coconut tree. They told me they have been living there for some time, in the East of Cloud Cuckooland, near the Sugarcandy Mountains! They looked so mentally deranged and the fact that they were heavily armed did not make them good company, so I took my next flight to Durban, in time for the World Cup, 2010. I left them there. They were mumbling something about not having a house, and drawing a new plan for a burnt house, and hiding an uncompleted house until the new one has been built. They are smarter than they look! That is the problem!


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Comment: HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

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Comment: HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

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2010-07-14 16:56:50

Comment to:

Stupid Otchere-Darko

That is a good one there! I like it. Thanks a lot for that, my dear corrupt, incompetent, toothless and arrogant Akyem dwarf!

Hehehehehehehehehehe!

Have a nice evening!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
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Comment: WAA LOOK, U ARE DODGING THE QUESTION

READ ARTICLE: Kosmos Hires Assasins

General News of Tuesday, 13 July 2010, Source: The Enquirer

Comment: WAA LOOK, U ARE DODGING THE QUESTION

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-07-13 12:19:24

Comment to: NDC: Rawlings Sympathizers Are Criminals

...AND THE QUESTION THE LAST COMMENTATOR POSED IS HERBY REPEATED WITH SOME PERTINENT OBSERVATIONS:

...how can any sensible human being, or for that matter a nation that has oil make a deal in which it gets NO OWNERSHIP OF THE OIL, but only get paid in ROYALTIES AND TAX from these American thieves, hogs and criminals?

Hi grandson,

If you cannot answer the question, do not deflect other people's attention from it with your hocus pocus. We all know that what the Rawlingses are doing is wrong. But, apart from plain mischief or a desire to sabotage an important national debate, I do not see your point. This is not the time and place for such a discussion.

Whom are you working for? At a time like this where there is an obvious external commercial aggression against our country, all patriots forget about their petty squabbles and come together as one people to deal with what is clearly a common enemy. Are you for the arrogance and greed of Kosmos over and above the legitimate interests of the good people of Ghana? You people never cease to amaze me.

The other day, it was Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. who could not hide his pleasure at the prospect of a bellicose Ivory Coast claiming the Jubilee Fields for themselves altogether!

Okoampa begins an article surreptitiously titled "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? with a shocker: "I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth... It also didn’t quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so dangerously close to Ghana’s border with Côte d’Ivoire would also have been so [godlessly] uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued to languish in penury." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010.

When are you people going to put an end to this 'house nigger' role and begin to love your own people and country rather than the corporate interests of your owners? Where did you get such a burning desire to undermine your own country from?

We are very busy here! We have a country to save! Away with your nonsense!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
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Comment: GRANDSON, YOU MISSED THE POINT!

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Comment: GRANDSON, YOU MISSED THE POINT!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-07-12 16:24:11

Comment to: Alhaji Bature Is Only Being Facetious

Hi grandson,

There is nothing funny about what Alhaji Baturi said. He made a statement of fact, and you require a special and tiresome sense of humour to laugh at all the statements of facts you come across such as ”It is raining.” ”The food is cooked.” ”Kofi is a boy.” etc etc hahahahahahahaha? Are you still OK up there?

”if in the 2012 elections he [Akufo Addo] doesn’t make it, I [Alhaji Baturi] wonder whether he can make it in their [NPP’s] primaries in 2016.”

The example of Paa Willie that you used confirms what Alhaji Baturi is saying, it does nothing to undermine it:

“in 1979, for example, the old-age and politics joke revolved around the personality of Mr. William “Paa Willie” Ofori-Atta who, incidentally, also happened to be the maternal uncle of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.“

Did Paa Willie win at 69 to become a president in Ghana? Have you forgotten the reason why you are making the argument in the first place? If you could turn again to Dr. Albert Einstein’s “Theory of Relativity,” you would understand why the fact that although Messrs. Atta-Mills and Akufo-Addo are contemporaries and former classmates at Legon, generally speaking, the President has all his teeth whilst Akuffo Addo has a toothless mouth full of dentures. You would also understand why the president has no hair upon his head and Akufo Addo is wearing rasta “dreads“. Knowing who won the elections 2008, your argument fall flat on the belly, face down! Listen to yourself, and clinch: “And this marked physical differential, it is significant to observe, existed in even sharper relief going into Election 2008.“

This is why I have been telling you all the time, you need to think before you write!

In addition to his old age, his recent trip to the Upper East was a veritable disaster not only for himself but for the NPP as whole. It is not a very big region, but if did not matter, he would not have gone there! It was his arrogance and inability to eloquently assert himself without being offensive that is going to be his own undoing this time around. I would worry about old age or joke about it as you seem to be doing, but not the problemp of arrogance!

How funny can you be? Is that the pathetic spin you put on this insufferable arrogance? Listen to yourself: “On the cognitive side, ... Nana Akufo-Addo who comes off as the far more nimble and politically astute, even if he has also on occasion been accused of being a bit too forthright for the comfort of those who seem to prefer [practiced] (or theatrical) humility over competence and vigilance in Ghanaian politics.“ Did you not grow up in a home with elder people around? Ha? What is this? If you want to call a spade a spade, you call a goat a goat, and not a regional coordinator, OK? And there is nothing theatrical about that. Go to the Upper Region and explain to them that Akufo Addo called them goats because he “preferred competence and vigilance in Ghanaian politics over [practiced] (or theatrical) humility!“

Anyway, if I did not know how funny you could be often, this would have come as a surprise. Was it not you who wrote an article asking the newly-elected President John Evans Atta-Mills to concede defeat the the loser, for the simple reason that he is your uncle? (See: Feature Article of Thursday, 1 January 2009, Columnist: Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame, Atta-Mills Must Concede Defeat!)


Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
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ON THE DANQUAH INSTITUTE: Comment: THE MOST DANGEROUS THINK-TANK IN AFRICA!

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Comment: THE MOST DANGEROUS THINK-TANK IN AFRICA!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-07-07 10:31:56

Comment to: NPP SHOESHINE BOYS INSTITUTION

They have said nothing positive before! And, from their records, I wonder if they will ever do so. These are not the normal everyday fools we meet in the street! They are professional stooges whose opinions are adjusted constantly by their international financiers and imperialist owners! The other day, they were arguing passionately for our collective enslavement under the military might of the US by ceding our sovereignty for US military bases on our soil. They also claim to "love" Ghanaians so much that they applaud Okoampa for supporting the Ivorians against Ghanaians in the former’s purported claim to our Jubilee Oil fields! Yes, even when La Côte d'Ivoire decided to claim the Jubilee Oil from Ghana, the first and only Ghanaian to have publicly sided with the Ivorians for ideological reasons was Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., an insider of the Akyem Mafia and a member ogf the Governing Body of the Danquah Institute. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, who described himself a member of the governing body of the Danquah Institute, an Akufo Addo propaganda outfit, wrote: "I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth... It also didn’t quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so dangerously close to Ghana’s border with Côte d’Ivoire would also have been so [godlessly] uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued to languish in penury." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010.

What I find even more alarming is this attempt by the Akufo Addo chief propagandist to sell the idea of Africom to Ghanaians:

"Ghana is now the subject of strategic U.S. energy and military interests which, as far as the Obama administration is concerned, has raised the stakes considerably in Ghana–United States relations. As the potential gem in the crown of what Washington terms Africa's ‘New Gulf’, the article highlights how Ghana’s pending oil-rich status will shift the terms of negotiation during the trip. Furthermore, America’s preference for Ghana as the physical location for the U.S. African Command (AFRICOM) headquarters, and its concern not to cede strategic ground to China in this region, mean that in 2009 Ghana has an unprecedented hand of cards to play in this game of international diplomacy. Our task as a nation – and the Government’s task as our representatives - is to make the strategic decisions to ensure that we aren’t simply the honoured recipients of President Obama’s first visit to Africa, but that we come away with more concrete deliverables to help us meet our own strategic goals."

Ochere Darko, the Executive Director of the Akyem Mafia neocolonialist think-tank known as the Danquah Institute now shows us how they hope to move Ghana forward:

"The way forward is a pro-active policy to build a new Gulf of energy security and prosperity in a part of the world that is relatively receptive to American presence. With significant discoveries being made in the Gulf of Guinea oil basin, off the coast of Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Congo and Cote d’Ivoire, according to the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy, the United States will be importing in the year 2020 over 770 million barrels of African oil a year. And Ghana with its stability, notable responsiveness to America, deepening multiparty democracy and promising investment climate is seen as the perfect epicentre for the growth and fulfilment of this interest. In the eyes of America, geography, geology and ideology all favour Ghana as the gem in the crown of this new policy."

I am sure it shall not harm our democratic process if Nana Akufo Addo would come out clearly to distance himself from the position of his right hand man or be honest enough to tell us BEFORE he is elected, whether or not he endorses the "brilliant ideas" of the Danquah Institute neocolonialist think-tank.

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
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Comment: Re: Where Was Gabby On Vodafone and Kosmos?

Read Article: What at all is wrong with us?

Feature Article of Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Columnist: Otchere-Darko, Gabby Asare

Comment: Re: Where Was Gabby On Vodafone and Kosmos?

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-07-07 09:01:12

Comment to: Where Was Gabby On Vodafone and Kosmos?

I really like your take on this. I have had the occasion of writing rejoinder after rejoinder concerning some of the most mischievous ideas ever printed by Africans against Africans by this strange institute. They even went as far as justifying the establishment of US military bases on our soil. A feat no African think tank has been able to achieve. Even when La Côte d'Ivoire decided to claim the Jubilee Oil from Ghana, we saw Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr, who describes himself a member of the governing body of the Danquah Institute, an Akufo Addo propaganda outfit, saying: "I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right of access and enjoyment of Ghana’s purportedly new-found oil wealth... It also didn’t quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so dangerously close to Ghana’s border with Côte d’Ivoire would also have been so [godlessly] uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued to languish in penury." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March 2010.

I am interested in this issue, but you people have shown so much mischief in the past that I take whatever you say or especially write, with a pinch of salt. I just started reading around it. I need all the information I can get. My preliminary beef is what I call intellectual dishonesty in this presentation. It breaks the entire argument into two by the neck:

"Government has more to do with our money than providing homes which the private sector is already doing."

You show no shame to use exclusively state-sponsored projects to subsequently justify your claim. Considering the intellectual depth so far displayed by the Danquah Institute, it comes as no surprise that the author turns around only to cite state-sponsored projects to justify his unfounded claims that "the private sector is already doing" this:

"As far back as the 1960’s, Ghanaians were in charge of large scale housing projects and even built the State House. Ghanaians fully managed and built Dansoman, Teshie-Nungua Estates etc."

None of these were accomplished without the active participation by the state. None of them were established without a vociferous opposition from the same people who are ideologically allergic to state participation.

Now after these preliminary observations I am ready for an in-depth discussion on this subject. I think we all owe it as a duty to our people to be open-minded and call a spade a spade, where the supreme interest of our people is at stake.

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
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this attitude and a president? TWIAAAA!

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Comment: this attitude and a president? TWIAAAA!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-07-06 09:32:15

Comment to: Re: Akuffo Addo is a junk; dump him!

Hahahahaha! Goodman, I like that one: hmmmmm this attitude and a president? TWIAAAA! How true! Like a typical spoilt-child born with a silver spoon in his now toothless mouth, Akufo Addo does not know what to do when he makes mistakes. In the last presidential run-off, when Ms. Christine Churcher apologized on behalf of the party for ignoring the numerous complaints of fishermen during the entire 8-year tenure of the NPP misrule. It backfired very badly. Since then, he seems stubbornly convinced that it is better to make mistakes and not apologize for them, than to graciously apologize. You can not find a better definition of arrogance than this one!

What is at stake is not whether or not Akufo Addo is arrogant. We know that already. What is at stake here is whether this is a signal and the shape of what is to come if this man is given the nod! Those of us who are looking for signs of a president who would listen, are getting ready to write our report. From the way things look, unless this extremely arrogant Akyem dwarf apologizes for such a disgusting display of insensitivity, and wilful frustration of the efforts of the Upper East NPP Regional Executive Committee to retrieve seven cars belonging to the party, currently monopolized by the Akufo Addo cronies for his private campaigns to the detriment of the Office of the regional organizer of the party, there is something very wrong here.

In addition to this is the arrogant and pompous Akufo Addo, who stupidly considers any form of apology as a sign of weakness. What this leaves us is a presidential candidate who is constantly committing gaffes, but who would apologize to neither man nor God, and ask for forgiveness for his trespasses. He keeps his trespasses close to his chest like Treasury Bills, Bonds or stocks in a company. And when they do not transform into votes, he childishly cries foul, and asks for human blood to be shed, whilst his blind supporters like Kwame Okoampa insist that the winner must concede to the loser! (See: Feature Article of Thursday, 1 January 2009, Columnist: Okoampa-Ahoofe, Kwame, Atta-Mills Must Concede Defeat!) Is it not time to dump this arrogant man to his fate and move on?

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
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Comment: GRANDSON, TELL YOUR STORY WALKING!!!

Comment: GRANDSON, TELL YOUR STORY WALKING!!!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-06-25 07:05:03

Comment to: When Will You Ever Use Your Brain......?

Bravo, grandson! Clap for him! This is at least original! There are talents even in stupidity! And this our dear son of Flecknoe, who never deviates into sense, whose darkness admits no ray,
like Dryden's Shadwell, has to all abundantly displayed! Are you such a mental midget that you do not even seem to know what you want to say? First, it was: ”11 days ago, you were in South Africa...What talks do you want to hold with the South African govt that you couldn't do so when you were there 2 weeks ago?” This, in spite of the fact that Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, accompanied by his wife Ana, was in Accra on Sunday 20th June on the three-day state visit. He left two days ago! I do not play football with idiots who are constantly changing the goal post! As they say in Australia, Tell you story walking!!!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro

Comment: ROUTINE MENTAL CHECK-UP RECOMMENDED!!!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-06-25 06:49:26

Comment to: Ooh My God ! !

Good day, Don Blunt!
You will have to be careful and respect yourself the next time you address me. Talking about using your brains, charity begins in your own skull. My comment is clearly in response to the related post by Jato Julor (J.J.) Rawlings: ”11 days ago, you were in South Africa...What talks do you want to hold with the South African govt that you couldn't do so when you were there 2 weeks ago?” Who is not using the grey matter? Go and think and come again. I stand by my response: ”Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, accompanied by his wife Ana, was in Accra on Sunday 20th June on the three-day state visit. He left two days ago.” I would rather believe in an official statement from the NDC government than a Ghanaweb comment by any Tom, Dick, and Don Blunt!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
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Comment: Ooh My God !!

Author: Don Blunt

Date: 2010-06-25 04:41:47

Comment to: Re: Going For Medical Care In South Africa ?

Ghana needs people who can use their brains, not only those who believe any shit presented officially.
Odikro, don't let anybody understand you saying the destiny of AU is being planned between these three Heads of States, especially avoiding a "three-man confrontation", but "taking turns".
Talking about taking turns; recently, outside the Black Star Camp, a few Guys also took turns at some goodies that was exported from Ghana for their entertainment.
I can assure you, our President will not indulge himself in that kind of negotiations.

Subject: RE: Kosmos sells to Exxon Mobil

Subject: RE: Kosmos sells to Exxon Mobil
Author: Nana Akyea Mensah (217.112.186.73)
Date:   07-05-2010 05:27

We are watching with keen and alert eyes. I personally have no problem with the intergrity of this President to do the right thing for our country. I am confident Pesident Mills is not going to be pushed around by any of the silly pressures bing put on his administration by the clique of international vampires and their local stooges such as Kufour and his property stealing demonic rats.

Ghana shall prevail. We understand and expect that these greedy and unprincipled thieves who have set their eyes on our oil shall never prevail against the good people of Ghana. Professor John Atta-Mills needs all the support he can get to remain strong and resolute as he has been from the very beginning. The Americans must be told in very plain language that Ghana is an independent country and we have every intention to keep it that way.

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!! Cheers! – Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro Blogs: nanaakyeamensah.blogspot.com Comments: theodikro.blogspot.com

Comment: BLACK STARS ARE THE ENVY OF YOUR OWNERS!

Comment: BLACK STARS ARE THE ENVY OF YOUR OWNERS!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-07-03 04:48:44

Comment to: Shut Up With Your Ignorance,Lil One !

Hey grandson,
Don't hide in the crowd and churn out such nonsense! At least the Black Stars were able to beat your owners! They may not be the envy of the entire world, but they are certainly the envy of your owners! I think I know why you were against Ghana going any further right from the beginning! The same reason Okoampa wants the Ivory Coast to claim our Jubilee Oil Field! Nothing is OK in Ghana for you in so far as the NPP is in the opposition, and Pan-Africanism in on the ascendancy! It's so unbearable to see people cry, but I enjoyed your crying after the last presidential and parliamentary elections! You people even had the nerve to ask the winner, President Mills to concede defeat, but are unwilling to give the slightest support to our precious Black Stars!!! Shame unto you!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
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Comment: THANK YOU MY SISTER, YOU'VE MADE MY DAY!

THANK YOU MY SISTER, YOU'VE MADE MY DAY!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-07-02 19:51:11

Comment to : THANKS NANA; ACCEPT MY APOLOGY TOO!

Thanks a lot! My dear sister and comrade! This helps to mitigate the pain of the Ghana-Uruguay match! I can sleep better with this one!

"Let us work together for the betterment of our people!"
PLEASE CONSIDER IT DONE!

"I may slip up in some of the ideas that I put out here, but I mean no harm!Thanks again!"
I BELIEVE YOU! IT IS THE SAME WITH ME! WE ARE ALL MORTALS, AND TO ERR IS HUMAN, TO FORGIVE, DIVINE! PARTICULARLY IF WE CAN BUILD SYNERGIES TO POWER THE AFRICAN LIBERATION STRUGGLE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

Live and thrive, Denkyira beauty!
Long live the struggle of the people for freedom and justice!
For peace and social progress!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
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THE GHOAST OF AKUFO ADDO'S GOAT IN THE UPPER EAST REGION

NANA AKUFO ADDO: A SERIAL LOSER OR VICTORY 2012? THAT IS THE QUESTION!

"The people of the Upper East received Nana Akufo-Addo as if they were celebrating a Black Stars triumph in the World Cup." - Ian Okwei, NPP Victory 2012 Campaign

The perception already abounds that, Nana Addo is so arrogant and complacent and his “Any goat could be my coordinator” comment was seen as a celebrated example of such arrogance. Nana Addo's insistence not to apologize to the regional executives only went further to bolster the perception. - Akilu Sayibu, UK, Feature Article | Sun, 27 Jun 2010, NANA ADDO MUST ESCHEW HIS PERCEIVE ARROGANCE OR BE READY TO BE ESCHEWED BY POLITICS   Akufo-Addo, who is campaigning for the August 7 nomination as the 2012 Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party has successfully concluded his tour of the Upper East Region.

"It calls, first of all, for the genuine unity and sincere loyalty among the Elephant Family...It calls for coordinated planning. It calls for resources and discipline in using resources efficiently and effectively. It calls for keeping the government on its toes and presenting the country with a credible alternative set of competent men and women and a more imaginative and constructive programme for both national and individual development and prosperity," Akufo-Addo told his audience. Akufo-Addo: NDC and NPP are like night and day

Related Stories: 1. Akufo-Addo Ends Upper East Tour   2. We Owe Regional Executives No Apology- Nana Addo 3. NANA ADDO MUST ESCHEW HIS PERCEIVE ARROGANCE OR BE READY TO BE ESCHEWED BY POLITICS

A statement  signed Herbert Krapa, Akufo Addo's  Press Aide said:
 "The tour, which covered the period from 23rd June to 30th June, 2010, was marked by the usual mass endorsements from most Polling Station Executives, Constituency Chairmen and Members of Parliament from the Region."

We Owe Regional Executives No Apology- Nana Addo:

"The campaign team of the NPP’s 2008 flagbearer, Nana Akuffo Addo has rejected calls for an apology from the candidate to the Upper East Regional executives of the New Patriotic party.

Some NPP executives in the Upper East Region are demanding the apology from Nana Akuffo Addo for making some comments they deem insulting to the Executives.

According to the Regional Executives, the Presidential hopeful, in a meeting, allegedly said that if he decides to appoint even a goat to represent him in the region it is none of their business."

 
"Nana Akufo-Addo’s Victory 2012 Campaign Team wishes to extend its heartfelt thanks to all four Members of Parliament, Regional, Constituency and Polling Station Executives and Electoral Area coordinators for their support and endorsements."


“So Nana Addo reacted by saying that he doesn’t deem it proper for regional executives to determine for any aspirant who his coordinator should be and said even If I had appointed a goat to represent me in this region it was not the place for regional executives to say we accept or reject”.
What were the reasons advanced by the Upper East Regional Executive Committee of the NPP?

Akilu Sayibu, UK: "Some are of the view that, Nana Addo talked down on the executives because they are Northerners and wonder if he can use such disrespectful words on Executives of the NPP in Ashanti region or Eastern region?"

 “If you are strong, our party is strong and if you give me the nod of leading the party again, I promise you that whatever resources you require to do your work, money, logistics, paraphernalia, I am going to bring them directly to you to strengthen your capacity and ensure that victory comes our way in 2012”, he remarked.
EXCELLENT COMMENT! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! Akufo-Addo is a hypocrite whose rhetoric must not be taken seriously. It was not necessary for this man to pretend to “to thank" the Upper-East regional executives of the NPP, "for allowing him [campaign access to] the region and also to ask for their cooperation”, if they have no right to even opine upon a serious issue of including disruptive characters on their own home turf! What this particular Akyem dwarf ought to know is that just as it is his right to appoint a goat as his Upper-East regional coordinator, the people of the Upper-East also reserve the right not to work with goats! Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!! Cheers! – Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro. Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro

Comment: KILL THE ADDER IN THE SHELL!..Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date:

2010-07-01 06:34:19

Comment to:

Shame on Okoampa-Ahoofe

KILL THE ADDER IN THE SHELL! REJECT AKUFO-ADDO NOW BEFORE HE CRAVES WALLOW WALKING!!!
It would be very nice if the Akyem dwarf himself realised the negative impact of his nephew's rabid propaganda on his own campaign! Even before being confirmed by the party, what we often hear is that one is either an Akyem dwarf supporter, or "an NDC mole"! Read: "the levelheaded NPP supporter and/or sympathizer is... wondering whether this... fellow is not in the pay of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC)." See also: Kwame Pianim: Kufuor and I are NDC Moles in the NPP By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Columnist: Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article | Sun, 27 Jun 2010. More NPP members are going to get that label AFTER a VINDICTIVE Akufo-Addo gets a nod from the party! Good reason to "kill it in the shell"!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro

 

Comment: Re: Shame on the Akufo-Addo Detractors!Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date:

2010-07-01 05:32:02

Comment to:

Shame on the Akufo-Addo Detractors!

Hi, grandson, If I understood you very well, the Upper-East regional executives of the NPP, who are "on the ground" as it were, and know troublesome individuals who are problematic in the region, have no right to express their gut feelings for the benefit of the party for the simple reason that, for now, the Akufo-Addo Campaign is "the the semi-private preserve of the candidate’s"! There is an Akan proverb which says, "if you are going to have a good market, it begins in the morning." What we are seeing here is not a candidate that LISTENS! What we are seeing here is a candidate that is ARROGANT and INSULTING! (To be continued...)

Comment: Shame on the Akufo-Addo Detractors! #2

Author:

Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date:

2010-07-01 05:47:07

Comment to:

Re: Shame on the Akufo-Addo Detractors!

Why is it that the Akyem dwarf campaign is the ONLY political family constantly referring to people in the Northern Ghana as "goats"? The other day, it was Gabriel Asare-Ochere Darko, of the STRICTLY Danquah Institute, an Akufo-Addo propaganda outfit, who called them "goats" for daring to wave back and cheer Paa Kwesi Ndoum, the then-CPP presidential candidate! True, "in an agrarian economy and culture such as Ghana’s, the idiomatic use of zoological imagery is more often the rule than the exception." So why are the people of the North the principal butts of this insulting "Zoological imagery"? Can you point out one occasion where it has been used by the Akufo-Addo team to refer to Ashantis or Akyems? I want to know, and please, let me know!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers! Oh yes! Cheers to your bullets!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
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Shame on the Akufo-Addo Detractors! #2

YOU WROTE: "Even so, it would not be totally out of place and context for both sides to amicably acknowledge the fact that they may, each, have unnecessarily overreacted to an otherwise mutually beneficial confabulation. Maybe not the traditional proffering of apologies is needed here but, perhaps, the symbolic exchange of gifts as tokens of goodwill and mutual respect and accommodation."
MY COMMENT: The people want to be respected, first and foremost, as human beings, before the showering of gifts! I knew a man in Ghana who was so rich that he did not know what to do with his money so used to slap people and then give them money to shut them up! I shudder to think of such a goat as our president!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro

 

 

UE NPP Vows To Retrieve Party Assets

The Upper East Regional Executives of the New Patriotic Party, (NPP), has vowed to use every legitimate means to retrieve party assets, particularly, vehicles taken away by some immediate past executive members.

Speaking to the Daily Graphic at Bolgatanga, the Regional Organiser of the party, Mr Yaw Mort, maintained that all  efforts to take over the vehicles in the possession of some former executives in the past had proven futile.

According to him, on June 12, the party was compelled to issue a 48-hour ultimatum to the affected persons to return the vehicles but as at last June 14, 2010, when the ultimatum elapsed; none of the affected officials in possession of the vehicles returned the vehicles, which included  pick-ups.

This had incurred the displeasure of the newly elected officers, who had vowed to take action within the confines of the law to get back the party assets.

 Mr Mort would not go into details as to what measures would be taken to retrieve the items insisting that the party had decided to treat it as an internal party matter.

In all, the newly elected executives were demanding seven vehicles which they considered as party property which had been registered in the name of the party but had been taken away by the old executives.However some of the affected officials are challenging the decision to retrieve the cars from them.

One  such party officer, who asked not to be named, claimed it was a decision of the party for the officers to keep the vehicles which they alleged had been sold out to them.

 

Comment: Re: The wheels of justice grinds slowly

Comment: Re: The wheels of justice grinds slowly

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-07-01 18:14:23

Comment to: Re: The wheels of justice grinds slowly

I am wondering what the police did with the fake Rawlings hit-list that some NPP hot-heads circulated just before the presidential run-off. The created a real atmosphere of fear and insecurity and almost succeeded in transforming the growing political tension into a violent upheaval. It is criminal. It must be investigated and the culprits brought to book. Otherwise they are going to do worse things next time around! I am no supporter of the Rawlingses. I am no NDC member, even though I believe they are better the the NPP. I am CPP and I approve of this statement!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
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Comment: AKUFO-ADDO DID NOT OPPOSE THE IMMUNITY!

Comment: AKUFO-ADDO DID NOT OPPOSE THE IMMUNITY!

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-07-01 08:34:49

Comment to: Shut Up, You Ignorant Lil Kid !

Hi grandson,

I do agree with you! My own notes of the events here in my Apedwa Palace do not contradict your narrative. Keep it up! We must not condone murder of any sort, whether it is that of the Ya Naa or the judges! The most outrageous thing about the Rawlingses is their holier-than-thou attitude, even though they have very carefully covered every square inch of their stinking arses with entrenched constitutional provisions of immunity! The real shame of it is that this was achieved not without the help of so-called human rights campaigner and aspirant: Nana Akufo-Addo! Challenge me and I shall be forth coming with the facts!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
Twitter: /twitter.com/TheOdikro

Comment: WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO PROVE?

Comment: WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO PROVE?

Author: Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

Date: 2010-07-01 08:45:13

Comment to: BREAKING NEWS!! NPP IDIOT MP DEAD

What a way to announce the death of a political opponent! This is very much in a bad taste! I wish you knew how to be ashamed of yourself! There is nothing in your post that remotely suggests any wrong-doing of this man other than being a member of the NPP and doing his job as a parliamentarian! What are you trying to prove? That you can make the most stupid post in this forum? Is that very necessary? Shame unto you!!!
May his soul rest in peace!
Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!
Cheers!
–
Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.
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