By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
The propaganda secretary of the National Democratic Congress’ wild allegation that operatives of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) are planning to tactically entrap NDC heavy-lifters in sex scams, in the lead-up to Election 2012, sounds more like an Orwellian propaganda fare produced by Squealer in the classical republic of Animal Farm (See “NPP Plots to Lure NDC Officials with ‘fair mermaids’ – Quashigah” Ghanaweb.com 8/7/11).
The allegation is redolent of nothing short of the downright farcical, because the performance of the Atta-Mills administration is more than lackluster enough for any political strategist to invest precious capital in pimping any fair maids to a bunch of suited hoodlums who have already proven themselves to be the most notorious pimps and thugs in postcolonial Ghanaian history.
And so, maybe, Mr. Richard Quashigah was soliloquizing about the JULIET COTTON SCANDAL in which a group of top NDC operatives, led by then-Vice President John Evans Atta-Mills, literally handed over a jumbo wad of $ 20 million in exchange for the “butt-patting” of a notorious Georgia-resident African-American welfare queen.
If the foregoing observation has validity, and there is absolutely no reason to believe otherwise, then the kind of NDC political anxiety that Mr. Quashigah is alluding to is both woefully misplaced and grossly misguided. We also know all too well that its imperious pretence to probity, accountability and all, the NDC is veritably composed of the most depraved species of the proverbial Ghanaian human political animal that ever existed on the face of our fragile planet. Besides, one only needs to take a look at the faces and personalities of the women employed in powerful NDC cabinet positions to conclude that no living “Miss Ghanas” would be caught dead in the amorous company of these certified assassins of Supreme Court judges!
And so, really, how did Mr. Quashigah come by his plot of NPP operatives attempting to feed pretty and decent Ghanaian women into the bloody dens and feral mouths of these veritable cannibals of the so-called National Democratic Congress, but from his own deluded imagination? And just why would any key NPP operative worthy of such designation want to give away Ghana’s prettiest and brightest women to a bunch of butchers and Indemnity Clause-protected thugs? Did the NDC propaganda secretary give the latter question even a split-second’s thought?
Anyway, as I pointed out a short while ago, NDC operatives are far more likely to bribe their way into political entrenchment – a la Baba Jamal’s audiotape scams – because I have personally been approached with a bribery offer by a Westchester, New York-resident member of that faux-revolutionary party. And need I also repeat here the fact that having flatly turned down the aforesaid operative, the SOB expressed abject contempt for the fact that I would write and publish reams of articles in support of the free-enterprise agenda of the NPP?
As for the patently vacuous allegation that the Akufo-Addo Campaign is fervidly strategizing to have attractive women bug the cars and offices of key NDC officials, it is just that, a vacuous allegation! After all, with rambunctious motor-mouths like Messrs. Okudzeto-Ablakwa, Jamal and Quashigah, who needs to shed hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of bugging devices in order to obtain information that profusely and gratuitously inundate Ghanaians on a daily basis?
And just what “character challenge” does the NDC propaganda secretary claim to have thrown at the key operatives of the NPP? The fact that Vice-President John Dramani Mahama is widely known to have fathered twenty-four (24) kids, most of them out of wedlock? Or the fact that President John Evans Atta-Mills virtually abandoned the only child he ever officially fathered in favor of the house dog?
Come again, Mr. Quashigah, tell us more about your so-called Character Challenges. We love them; and boy, are they delicious!
*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English, Journalism and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City. He is Director of The Sintim-Aboagye Center for Politics and Culture and author of 22 books, including “Ghanaian Politics Today” (Lulu.com, 2008). E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net. ###
