Former President and Flagbearer of the NDC, John Mahama
Much as it is utterly disgusting, it is not surprising to hear that no less a person than a former president, John Dramani Mahama, who secured power on the ticket of NDC, a progeny of vicious coup d’états, is suggesting somewhat bizarrely that Ghana is more than ripe for a coup (emphasis mine).
The quintessential beneficiary of truculent coup d’états, former President John Dramani Mahama, in his recent electioneering campaign travels, is said to have unblushingly opined that the military would have staged a coup d’état if the NDC government was in power.
My dear reader, let us be honest, if economic challenges call for a coup d’état, then the erstwhile Mahama administration should have been deposed before the 2016 general elections.
With all due respect, Your Excellency, if Ghana wasn’t ripe for a coup d’état when the economic growth slumped from 14% to 3.4% during your time in office, why now?
Was Ghana not ripe for a coup d’état when some conspiratorial plotters in the Mahama administration dubiously paid judgment debt in excess of GH¢800 million at the detriment of the poor and disadvantaged Ghanaians?
Did Ghanaians call for a coup d’état when Mahama made them sleep in darkness for well over four years?
Did anybody clamour for a coup d’état when the US$200 million(GH¢3.2 billion) housing loan was allegedly embezzled?
There were no calls for a coup when his sibling Ibrahim Mahama allegedly refused to pay import taxes to the tune of over GH¢12 million during his tenure in office.
There were no cries for a coup when Mahama egregiously gave away 58% of Ghana’s bauxite to his sibling to the utter disgust of discerning Ghanaians.
Did any patriotic Ghanaian clamour for a coup d’état when former President Mahama fecklessly gave apologists like Madam Akua Donkor of Ghana Freedom Party (GFP) two four-wheel drive cars and a luxury bungalow (estimated to cost a staggering US$470,000) for no work done?
Did any nationalists suggest a coup when the agricultural sector grew consistently in the negative?
Was Ghana not ripe for a coup d’état when the industry sector grew appallingly?
Was a coup d’état the only solution when Mahama egregiously ‘consumed all the meat on the bone?’
Well, let us remind His Excellency former President John Dramani Mahama that during his time in Office, he was given a descriptive label, ‘the incompetent one’ by his adversaries. His opponents would argue that although there was no known diffused global crisis during his time in office, he could not manage the economy.
In his short spell at the presidency, the late Mills left a propitious economic growth of 14%, and Mahama dragged it to a meagre 3.4%, the late Mills raised agricultural growth to 7.5%, and Mahama reversed it to 3.0%, the late Mills single digit inflation was perfunctorily raised to 15.4%, GDP of GH¢47 million shrunk to GH¢40 billion by Mahama in the absence of the ecumenically diffused coronavirus or Ukraine/Russia intractable conflict.
My dear reader, despite the conspicuous abysmal performance amid untold economic hardships, there were no cries for a coup d’état.
In fact, there is nothing out of the ordinary if the beneficiaries of the previous coup d’états clamour inexorably for a coup in the country.
It is absolutely true that the so-called coup enthusiasts have benefited so much from the national coffers as a result of their involvement in vicious coup d’états in the past, so they will always support a coup in opposition.
It is worth mentioning that the NDC was founded on the ideals of their coup-making founder, the late J. J. Rawlings (detailed in Article 6 of their party constitution, which their founder autographed with his blood).
The so-called coup enthusiasts paradoxically, go about preaching probity and accountability and yet fail to practice.
When the coup enthusiasts (the founders of NDC) burst onto the scene, they went haywire and barbarically tortured and murdered people with minimal offences.
I hate to admit though, but the fact remains that there is nothing wrong for a group of people to come together and identify themselves as the coup enthusiasts, or the ideologues of transparency, probity and accountability.
However, it is hypocritical and somewhat deceitful if a group of people who claim to be the exponents of such ethos turn around and commit the same crimes they inexorably preach against.
It has, however, been documented that when the coup enthusiasts (the founders of NDC) burst onto the scene, they went berserk and tempestuously tortured and murdered people with more than two vehicles.
As I write, the same coup enthusiasts are hypocritically in possession of not less than two vehicles per household. How deceitful?
Dearest reader, you may take my word for it, the vast majority of houseowners were punished severely for having more than one toilet facility in their households.
But the last time I checked, the vast majority of the so-called revolutionaries had uncountable toilet facilities in their luxurious mansions. How pathetic?
Besides, the founders of the NDC unabashedly exhibited their communist ideals by going to war with businessmen and women in the country.
The founders of NDC, regrettably, tortured and murdered innocent businessmen and women, many of whom were bizarrely accused of legally borrowing meagre sums of money from banks to support their businesses.
Strangely, albeit veracious, the so-called revolutionaries who repugnantly collapsed innocent people's businesses now own business outlets all over the place.
Some innocent businessmen and women, so to speak, were abhorrently humiliated and their businesses were either seized or destroyed by the despotic NDC founders.
Worst of all, billions of cedis (in 50 cedi denominations) were impertinently and capriciously seized from ordinary Ghanaians, albeit without a trace. How bizarre?
The NDC founders, ironically, replaced our educational system with that of a communist model, while deceitfully turning around and sent their children abroad to study in what they saw as a superior educational system.
My dear reader, let us be honest, Ghanaian politics is saturated with dishonesty and hypocrisy.
