Koku Will NEVER Apologise!!!

What is it that is making the NPP think that Ghana belongs to them and that they are not prepared to accept that Ghanaians (in their collective wisdom), have given the mandate to the NDC to manage the affairs of state till 2012?

What is it that is making the NPP think that once they are not in power, the world must cave in?

What is that is making the NPP think that the laws of Ghana must work in their interest and not in the interest of all Ghanaians?

Indeed, what is all this nonsensical talk about Koku Anyidoho needing to apologise to the Minority for referring to some acts and words of theirs as, irresponsible, whimsical, bellicose, and capricious?

When Ambrose Derry was making that useless statement on the Floor of Parliament, did he really think that he was cutting a responsible image for himself?

When Ambrose Derry was saying that Koku’s words were “offensive not only to the dignity and integrity of members of the Minority, but to the whole House” did he think that he was making a sensible submission?

What is it that Koku said, that is contemptuous of the Institution of Parliament or has questioned the dignity and integrity of Parliament?

And where “dignity and integrity of the Minority” means what?

For sure, we respect the institution of Parliament but a group of people cannot hide behind the integrity of the august House and continuously misbehave and act irresponsibly.

When a group of people who are supposed to be honourable men and women, constantly and consistently act and speak in irresponsible ways, wherein lies their dignity and integrity?

How can a person who has no dignity or integrity say that his/her integrity or dignity has been taken apart?

People like Maxwell Kofi Jumah and Kennedy Agyepong, can they say that they have any dignity or integrity considering how foul their mouths are?

Was Ambrose Derry not part of the NPP’s Vetting Committee Team which acted in very irresponsible ways during the vetting of President Atta Mills’ appointees?

Did Ambrose Derry not watch on with glee when the likes of Atta Akyea and Mathew Opoku Prempeh were asking very irresponsible and insulting questions?

A few days ago, during a usual insulting spree on Kennedy Agyepong’s Oman FM, did Mathew Opoku Prempeh not refer to the President as “Abonsam”?

Was Ambrose Derry not sitting close to Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu, when the Minority leader kept using unpalatable language?

Was Ambrose Derry not sitting close to Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu, when the Minority Leader said that Fiifi Kwetey was speaking in a “bellicose” manner?

Was Ambrose Derry not sitting close to Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu when the Minority Leader told Hon Doe Adjaho that he was acting in a “capricious” manner?

Was Ambrose Derry not sitting close to Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu when the Minority Leader said that Fiifi Kwetey was acting in a “whimsical” manner?

Or Ambrose Derry was deaf and dumb at the time and so did not hear the Minority Leader use the words?

Assuming, without admitting, that the words Koku used are not dignifying, were the words dignifying at the time Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu used them?

What kind of nonsensical double standard is this?

Is the blood that is running through the veins of Fred Opare Ansah better than the blood that runs through the veins of Fiifi Kwetey such that Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu can use those words on Fiifi, but Koku cannot use them on Opare-Ansah?

And Ambrose Derry thinks that he and his ilk should be treated with dignity when they exhibit such gross acts of double standards?

What is making the NPP MPs think that they are more Ghanaian than the rest of Ghanaians?

What is making the NPP MPs think that they can use certain words and get away with it but other Ghanaians must apologise when they use the same words?

Where in Ghana’s constitution or in the Standing Orders of Parliament is it written that MPs can use abusive language freely on non-MPs but non-MPs cannot use the same language on MPs?

Ambrose Derry should tell us; what is dignifying about the Minority holding a press conference and lying that a so-called investor had been stripped naked on the orders of Government only for the so-called investor to publicly deny ever being stripped naked in the presence of his family?

Did Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu apologise to Ghanaians for peddling falsehood and insulting His Excellency the President and his Government (calling them gangsters) for no apparent reason?

Opare Ansah argues on Citi FM that, having been elected into Parliament by their constituents, it is a very serious (?) matter for Koku Anyidoho to say that they were being irresponsible since it connotes that their constituents who elected them were also irresponsible. Very sick logic indeed!!!

Is every lunatic the offspring of lunatic parents?

Your constituents can be very responsible but you the MP will be a very irresponsible person.

We ask Opare Ansah; going by his own logic, when the NPP side of Parliament (including Opare Ansah himself) held a press conference and called the President, who has been elected as President by the majority of the adult population of Ghana, a “gangster”, were they saying that the people of Ghana who voted for the President are gangsters?

In any case, does Opare Ansah think that it was responsible for MPs to go insulting the President and calling him a gangster when it was not even true that any so-called investor had been stripped naked?

What is dignifying about the Minority Leader, based on his cooked up lies about somebody being stripped naked, saying that President Atta Mills is leading a pack of gangsters?

Now lets get back to the case in issue.

What is dignifying about Fred Opare Ansah making a nonsensical statement to effect that President Atta Mills will be impeached if he does not name the people who attempted to bribe him?

Is this not a nonsensical line of thought?

Who in his right senses will make such a preposterous statement?

And when Koku decides to call a spade a spade and tell Opare Ansah and co that their irresponsible acts will not be tolerated, they say he should apologise to the Minority.

Apology our foot!!!

I repeat, apology my foot!!!

Koku will not apologise today, he will not apologise tomorrow.

Indeed, the Minority can got to hell and rot there because there will be no apology from Koku.

What kind of insulting language have Kennedy Agyepong and Maxwell Kofi Jumah not used publicly?

How many times have the two NPP MPs not openly used very vulgar language? Consistently, they use foul language like “kwassea” ‘aboa” “gyimi gyimi” “bodamfuor” etc and they have never apologized for using such abusive unparliamentary language.

Why has the Privileges Committee not called the two NPP MPs to order?

Is the Privileges Committee not meant to deal with dishonourable MPs?

So what is this nonsensical move to be hauling non-MPs before the Privileges Committee while allowing errant MPs to get away with their insulting, uncouth, and dishonourable behaviour?

With this irresponsible way of acting, we are not surprised that Eric Amoateng stayed on the payroll of Parliament long after he was busted and jailed for smuggling heroine into the United States.

Ambrose Derry and his NPP MPs should take the fat log out of their eyes before moving in a bellicose, whimsical, capricious and grossly irresponsible manner to take the speck out of the eyes of other Ghanaians.

We are going to lead a crusade to resist this oppressive agenda of the NPP Minority in attempting to use the Privileges Committee to gag the NDC.

If Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu and his group were not able to browbeat Fiifi Kwetey into submission, they can rest assured that Koku Anyidoho will be the last NDC activist to apologise especially when there is no need to render any apology.

Koku Anyidoho, we are solidly behind you and we are saying that no retreat no surrender and don’t render any apology to a whimsical, bellicose, and capricious group of politicians who consistently act in extremely irresponsible and dishonourable ways.

As for Alban Bagbin and the NDC Majority MPs, we are telling them that they will pay dearly for allowing the NPP to have its way in Parliament - insulting His Excellency the President and saying all kinds of things about the NDC Government without getting any appropriate response.

If they think they can betray the NDC after getting to Parliament on the ticket of the party, we are telling them that the NDC Party is bigger and stronger than their parochial and selfish desires.

And with kind of response that our irresponsible MPs are getting from comrade Kwesi Prat, NDC foot soldiers, and fair-minded Ghanaians, the day Koku is hauled before the Privileges Committee, Accra will come to a standstill.

The irresponsible MPs should try the patience of Ghanaians and they will regret ever setting foot in Parliament.

The Nonsense must stop, and it must stop now!!!

Aluta Continua!!!

Nana Biakoye (A True Patriot)