Derrick Adjei, A Damaging Liability To Ghana

Kwabena Amankwah

When human, especially the naive

non-thinker, gets a taste of power, he loses all sense of good analysis and

direction.

The above statement perfectly

encapsulates the (mis)conduct of Prince Derrick Adjei, Deputy Coordinator of

the National Youth Council, the man who is being maintained by the tax payer to

create a politically neutral platform on which the youth can be mobilized to

seek ways of addressing the multifarious problems that confront us.

All decent and well-meaning

Ghanaians that have the interest of the youth at heart are worried about the

debauched and reprehensible life-style of the youth, characterized by sexual

promiscuity, alcoholism, drug abuse, “homosexualism”, gross disregard for

authority, vandalism, hooliganism and all the ills one can imagine.

Another issue often raised

against the youth is the apparent lack of respect for the elderly generation;

the use of abusive, insulting and divisive language; and the conspicuous

display of sheer empty arrogance.

One would have therefore expected

a public official like Prince Derrick Adjei to commit himself to helping to

develop and implement programmes that will help salvage the youth from the

abyss of hopelessness and helplessness we find themselves in, mainly as a

result of lack of jobs and opportunities to achieve our ambitions.

Unfortunately, this guy has convinced

the whole world that he rather represents more of the problems than the

solution. Indeed, he has made it clear to all that he is a real personification

of all the vices and ills associated with many of the youth.

It is a pity – indeed regrettable

– that Ghana

now has youth leaders like Price Derrick Adjei who exhibits the highest form of

irritating arrogance, gross disrespect for the elderly, and can go about

insulting and ridiculing high profile people like Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,

presidential candidate of the largest opposition New Patriotic Party without

any provocation.

What kind of lessons is this guy

giving to the many Ghanaian youth who by virtue of the position he occupies

should see him as a role model and a source of inspiration? It is clear from

the guy’s behaviour and utterances that he is rather “inspiring” the youth to

cherish the vices of arrogance and utter disrespect for the elderly generation.

It is understandable that Derrick

Prince Adjei occupies his current position because of his association with the

ruling National Democratic Congress, and would therefore want to join his other

colleagues to launch needless verbal attacks on opponents of the NDC government,

apparently to please his pay masters.

But, what he seems to have

forgotten is that by virtue of the position he occupies, he is expected provide

the platform that will bring together the youth of Ghana from diverse backgrounds –

ethnic, religious and political – to champion their common cause. In fact, this

is what he being paid to do for the nation.

This he can only do if he

conducts himself in manner that will make him an agent of unity and solidarity

for the youth of Ghana,

instead of being the agent of divisiveness he is proving to be.

It is just logical and

commonsensical to understand that you cannot go about insulting high profile

political leaders like Nana Akufo-Addo and expect to create the atmosphere of

harmony and unity required for the youth to work together in pursuit of our common

cause.

Well, I am not at all bothered

about whether or not Derrick Prince Adjei is a homosexual – that would be his

own bedroom affair, if he is indeed one – but my worry has to do with the fact

that the guy is proving to be a big disgrace to the youth of Ghana – oh yes,

the guy appears to be more of a DAMAGING LIABILITY other than a

useful asset to the nation.

And I think all decent-minded and

well-meaning Ghanaians who are really concerned about the youth should be

worried about the (mis)conduct of this guy who is clearly leading the youth on

the path of unrighteousness.

In any way, does it make sense

for this guy to be paid by the suffering tax payer for him to abandon his

official duties by 2:30 p.m to drive to the studios of Asempa FM only to insult

people and exhibit the kind of pride and arrogance that caused Lucifer to lose

his enviable place in heaven, as he did on Monday, September 13, 2010?

Oh, wither mother Ghana! It is

only on your soils where leaders do not know what they are about that a public

official working as a coordinator of National Youth Council can abandon his

work and turn himself into a party propagandist.

One also wonders why characters

like Prince Derrick Adjei should be serving in the government of the law

professor who is said to a prince of peace and the embodiment of all that the

word DECENCY

denotes and connotes.

Oh yes, Ghana is indeed a land of

hypocrites – that is why an insulting and foul-mouthed character like Prince

Derrick Adjei remains at

post even though he has proved to be a damaging liability not only to the

youth, but the entire nation.

Kwabena Amankwah is a freelance

journalist, a member of E/R NPP Communication Committee, former TESCON-UCC

Secretary and Campaign Correspondent, Akufo-Addo for President ’08.

amaskwabena@yahoo.com. 0244-217504.