KNUST lecturer exposed

The Political Science lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah

University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Mr. Kwesi Amakye, who a couple of

days ago told Citi News that he “… will

have great difficulty if people go ahead and vote for President Mills …” in

this year's election, calling on Ghanaians to instead vote for Nana Akufo-Addo,

has been stripped naked as an imposter!

For almost four years, this lecturer has held

himself up as an independent political commentator as a result of which he

became the 'resident' political commentator of two Accra-based radio stations,

Citi FM and Joy FM.

Often, it is to him these two radio stations turned

to particularly during their respective major news broadcast in the evenings ,

Eyewitness News and News Night respectively when they want a non-partisan or

independent view on a partisan political issue.

For the most part, he managed to hide his political

bias though many discerning Ghanaians saw through his comments and were able to

tell that he was often bias in favour of the NPP.

However, the adage that “…a man's true character is

like pregnancy; it can't be hidden forever” caught up with this so-called

independent political commentator on Tuesday when in one of his usual interview

with Citi news, his true colours came to the fore. Hear him;

“I will have great difficulty if people go ahead and

vote for President Mills, if the only alternative is Nana Addo then that should

be it”.

According to him, President Mills has failed

Ghanaians in tackling corruption and thus does not deserve a second term in

office. He strangely cited the corruption issue involving Hon. Muntaka which

CHRAJ had cleared him of and the judgement debt won by Mr. Alfred Woyome

recently as cases of corruption President Mills has failed to tackle. He also

claimed that another reason that he does not think President Mills deserves a

second term is what he claims to be the President's inability to stop the

politics of insults.

A very quick dash into the archives by the Daily

Post and other political activists finally fished out the smoking gun that

proved that Kwesi Amakye has been an imposter all these while. A GNA news item

on Thursday, April 19, 2001 indicated

that he was an NPP activist.

Indeed, according to the news item, until Wednesday,

April 18, Kwesi Amakye had been an activist of the NDC and was in fact, its

parliamentary candidate for Effiduase-Asokore constituency in the previous

year's elections. Below is the full GNA news item:

NDC

parliamentary candidate defects to NPP

Source:

GNA - Ghana News Agency

General

News | Thu, 19 Apr 2001

Mr

Kwasi Amakye Boateng, National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary

candidate for Effiduase-Asokore constituency in last year's elections, has

defected to the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Addressing

a news conference at Asokore on Wednesday at which he announced his defection,

Mr. Amakye Boateng said he had realised that the NPP government has something

good to offer the nation.

He

described the NDC as a party without vision and its personalities as

untouchables and people without commitment.

Mr

Charles Agyekum, NDC campaign manager for the constituency, who also defected

to the NPP, said he did so because the NDC has not been well organised after

its defeat in the last general elections and therefore has no future.

Mr

George Kwasi Marfo, branch chairman of the NPP, advised the defectors to be

loyal and honest to the NPP.

Mr

Prince Frimpong-Ampomah, vice-chairman of the NPP, said the party has put

behind it problems that cropped up as a result of the electioneering campaign

towards the last general elections.”

Mr. Kwesi Amakye must be a very clever and smart man

to have fooled many Ghanaians all these years, holding himself up as an

independent political commentator. The elephant blood that flows in his vein,

however, had a better part of him last Tuesday, compelling him to show his true

political colours. Some political watchers believe that Ghana is the better for

it; it is one more imposter gotten ridden of in Ghana's political discourse