Says They Are Good Ambassadors For War
Monitoring Desk Report
The Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey has asserted in a news statement that the Akan people are good ambassadors for war. According him, being in a catchment area of the Ivory Coast’s election-related war, they played yeomen’s role in that country’s war; and as dominant ethnic group in Ghana, ‘it can happen in Ghana in 2012’.
This assertion, therefore, portrays the NPP of which Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey is a Chair, and Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo leads, as a blood-thirsty political party.
In its seemingly avowed position to plunge Ghana into a bedlam even before next year’s general elections in efforts to thwart progress of the nation, characteristic of them, de novo has been re-echoed by its National Chairman, Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey aka certificate-less “mulatto”.
With the blood of massacre running through their veins, Mr. Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey in an interview with an Accra based Radio Station, was heard psyching up the minds of Ghanaians, and telling them the possibility of the Ivory Coast war being simulated, in case his party loses the December 2012 general elections.
Using Akans as a case study in relations to the impasse that broke out in neighboring Ivory Coast following election disputes months ago, the NPP National Chairman who claims to be an election’s strategist, and well known to have come from a family made up of dangerous species.
Obetsebi-Lamptey Snr., Jake father is on record to have been the brain behind all the assassination attempts on Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. However, people are confused as to why the NPP should decide to treat Akans with disdain, reducing them to garbage. Some would want to know how Akans will be of immense benefit to the NPP per their exploits in Ivory Coast.
It is known very well why he chose Oman FM, one of the many Akan radio stations that are supportive of his party’s long-drawn agenda; a station belonging to a colleague NPP member; Mr. O-Lamptey, with show of bravado stated that Akans in Ghana, like their counterparts in the Ivory Coast had demonstrated, will not sit idle whiles their rights are taken away.
According to Jake, Akans in Ghana having shown to be good war ambassadors will be used to generate a post-election violence in Ghana and they will emulate the example of their counterparts in the Ivory Coast, to fight for ‘their right’.
As if Ghana is yet to have her first ever elections since adopting democracy, the NPP and its commentators persistently have been preaching war in the event the next general election does not go in their favour.
It seems, however, that the war-mongering has become the NPP mantra, as they go round to incite Akans against the government and other tribes. It would be recalled that months ago, the NPP Flagbearer, Williams Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo, with some party executives and followers in the Eastern Region during one of his fruitless tours, to canvass support for his 2012 presidential bid, laid the foundation of the belligerency, as he preached violence capped with his “All Die Be Die” war-cry.
It’s, therefore, not of surprising to those of us working on The Informer that, this same position has been re-phrased and this time round, linking it to the post-election violence in Ivory Coast, which needless war claimed the lives of many innocent souls; and properties.
It can also be said of the NPP, when they wished war on Ghana, by calling on President Atta Mills to commit men and women in-uniform to fight the senseless war in Ivory Coast, because they want to come to power.
Whether Akans are good ambassadors for war or not as Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey would want the world believe, Ghanaians are watching as they wait patiently to hear them speak on the matter; and posterity will be the judge.
