RE: Quashigah Requires Immediate Psychiatric Examination!

* *Okoampa Requires Immediate Psychiatric Examination! *Feature Article |

By Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.*****A rejoinder to: "Quashigah Requires

Immediate Psychiatric

**As Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., calls for the immediate psychiatric

examination of the Propaganda Secretary of the ruling National Democratic

Congress, Mr. Richard Quashigah in his latest article, I invite the Ghanaian

public to find out if such a call has any merit, and to share my very

profound indignation and revulsion at the casual impertinence of an

unintelligent hypocrite whose notoriety as the most unpatriotic Ghanaian on

the world wide web is more than legendary! On the 29 of July, 2010, the

Propaganda Secretary of the NDC, *Mr. Richard Quashigah told Joy FM the that

“NPP’s harsh hostilities towards the STX project though unfortunate, is

understandable.” He was also quoted as saying '"the intransigent position

of the NPP on the STX deal is consistent with the party's philosophy -

opposing anything that is good for Ghana... The NPP has an attitude and that

attitude is to oppose anything that is good for this country,” he added.'

(See: *NPP Are Enemies Of Progress: NDC Propaganda

Secretary,

*29-Jul-2010, Peacefmonline.com)*Is my grandson now parading in Ghana as a

patriot? Wonders will never end! In the first place, I am very remarkably

surprised to read the latest article by my grandson. Why this surprise is

very remarkable is because it comes at a time I was beginning to naively

believe that my grandson has ran out of any possibilities of pulling

surprises as the most despicable commentator on the web. Having known no

Ghanaian on the world wide web who is as unpatriotic and equally busy

working on a daily basis to bring his own country on its knees at the feet

of his imperialist owners, than Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., I was almost

certain he could no longer surprise me! I mean what I am saying. I cross my

heart. I am going to drop a few hints about this before I end this article,

so please, bear with me. I even thought it was very clear that in my bid to

identify, defend, and advance the interests of main-street Africans, I have

clashed enough with Okoampa to enable him to do a soul-searching safari on

his own, repudiate and ran away from his current as a pawn of Wall Street,

and come back to join our very decent society as a changed person!**But no,

Okoampa has not changed one bit! This leaves me with no choice other than to

focus again on some of the areas he needs to urgently work on before he even

qualifies for the attention of peace-loving, patriotic and proud Ghanaians!

He owes the people of Ghana very serious apologies before he can even

comment on sensitive issues such as patriotism in Ghana! I thank my God I

did not get a heart-attack out of the shock, when I saw Okoampa pretend to

be the patriot in any Ghanaian situation. It would have been "the most

unkindest cut of all" I he had succeeded to literally kill me with his lies!

I find the level of nonsensical lies and hypocrisy extremely severe,

dangerous, and suffocating, even by Okoampa's own awful standards! The real

alarm lies in the fact that whenever a traitor puts on the clothes of a

patriot, it is the responsibility of all real patriots to expose such a

fellow immediately and irrespective of the consequences! I wrote in my

comment under this article on Ghanaweb: "*My dear grandson, ...I found your

place in this debate to be rather incongruous. Particularly when the issue

involves patriotism, you and I know very well that you are the last person

whose opinion should matter to the ordinary Ghanaian." This article attempts

to explain what I meant. *Kwame Okoampa, A Ghanaian Patriot? **Fellow

Ghanaians, I write this article to off-load a burden on my conscience and

expose a villain. I cannot simply remain silent over this. It is not

necessarily my primary objective to catalogue the political sins of Okoampa

against the good people of Ghana. I simply cannot stand the ugly histrionics

of Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., going scot-free after presenting himself to

Ghanaians as a fellow patriot in his latest article! That is not acceptable.

Hence this article has been written with the intention to make sure that

Okoampa receives the rebuttal he requires to enable him undertake

appropriate self-censorship without any further external stimulus from

friends and foes alike. Please read on, you will not be disappointed!**My

first significant experience of Okoampa's quisling status was upon reading

an article of Kwame Okoampa Ahoofe, Jr., over a tactical retreat manoeuvre

by the US Embassy in Accra concerning the establishment of US Africom

headquarters in Ghana and other military bases including an air force base

at Tamale and a naval base somewhere along the coast. Guess where I got

these gruesome details from? Asare Gabriel Ochere-Darko, the Executive

Director of the Danquah Institute! In* *Obama’s Visit – What’s In It For Us

And

U.S.?,

*Ochere Darko argues:

* * *"Furthermore, the U.S. is, understandably, bent on establishing a

regional command for Africa, similar to U.S. Forces Korea, with a homeport

situated on the African continent to protect their interests. West Africa is

its natural home, given the need to protect energy interests in the Gulf of

Guinea. Liberia has offered but simply cannot match the kind of convenience

available in Ghana. It can be a win-win situation."*

"Kwesi Pratt was one of the first to raise the alarm about oil and US

military bases in Africa." Crossedcrocodiles writes in Ghanaians Discuss

AFRICOM & Obama’s

Visit.He

continues:

*

*

*"In a 2007 interview he said:*

*Kwesi

Pratt:

I am very alarmed after reading what is called the Cheney Report. When Bush

came to power, he set up a committee chaired by Dick Cheney his Vice

President to assess America’s energy requirements up to the year 2015. The

Cheney Report actually says that by the year 2015, twenty percent of

American oil requirements will be supplied by West Africa and therefore it

is important to maintain a foothold in West Africa in order to ensure that

oil supplies from West Africa to the United States of America will not be

interr**upted*." (See: Ghanaians Discuss AFRICOM & Obama’s

Visit,

by xcroc, June 3, 2009, http://crossedcrocodiles.wordpress.com)

It must be noted that even though Mr Kwesi Pratt, Jnr., was the first to

raise the alarm in Ghana, the US desire to capture the control and use of

the hydrocarbon materials from particularly our sub-region, if need be, by

the means of military action, has been beyond dispute:

'*In May 2001 the Cheney report warned that the U.S. would grow increasingly

dependent upon foreign oil in the years to come and recommended that as a

matter of policy the Bush Administration work to increase production and

export of oil from regions other than theMiddle East, noting that Latin

America and West Africa were likely to be the fastest growing sources of

future U.S. oil imports. ... Three months later, Assistant Secretary of

State for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner declared that African oil "has

become a national strategic interest." This statement is particularly

noteworthy in that it uses the language of the Carter Doctrine in the Middle

East, in which President Carter went on to declare that the U.S. would

intervene by any means necessary to protect its national interest in Middle

Eastern oil. In April 2002, Donald Norland, former U.S. Ambassador to Chad

told a Congressional subcommittee: "It's been reliably reported that, for

the first time, the two concepts -- 'Africa' and 'U.S. national security' --

have been used in the same sentence in Pentagon documents.*" ('Understanding

AFRICOM: A Contextual Reading of Empire’s New Combatant

Command,

b real, February 2007, http://www.moonofalabama.org,

Thus, not only were the denials by the US Embassy in Accra very cynical, but

sinister. It would not have bothered me too much if any other person within

the NPP had responded to Quashigah, other than Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr.!

After all, are we not talking about patriotism now? If so, then what is the

basis of the repugnant histrionics by this famous political sell-out before

he is allowed to further throw dust into our very vigilant eyes? If the NPP

really needs someone to defend it from the unassailable truth of being a

neocolonialism entity, and by definition, an unpatriotic and pro-Imperialist

party established to see to the business interests of their imperialist

owners, Okoampa should be the last person to do so! The very fact that none

other than Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., should respond to this issue of

patriotism is not only significant, it is also a sign that he requires an

immediate psychiatric treatment for thinking he can take Ghanaians for

fools! If he does not get a psychiatric examination, he shall continue to

pile trouble after trouble on his favourite candidate, Nana Addo Danquah

Akufo Addo.

Mr. Kwesi Pratt's patriotism in the interview is clear:

*Kwesi

Pratt

*: "*Consequently, the United States is planning to establish military bases

across West Africa including Ghana. And I am very worried that at a time

when we are celebrating our national independence we are going to tolerate

the establishment of foreign military bases, especially American military

bases on our soil. The great Osageyfo Dr. Nkrumah, Malcolm X, Kwame Ture,

and all of them emphasized that Africa ought to be free from foreign

military bases and weapons of mass destruction. We cannot allow that dream

to die. That is why, it is important for us to resist all attempts to

establish foreign military bases on African soil especially forces of the

United States, must be prevented from establishing on African soil. Clearly

because they are not on African soil to protect our interests, they are on

African soil to facilitate the exploitation of our resources for the benefit

of the tiny minority that controls the wealth of the American people and who

are sitting on top of this world exploiting the Chicanos, exploiting the

African Americans and exploiting all of the other independent and healthy

forces in the Un**ited States of America. We have to resist all attempts to

build U.S. military bases in Ghana and elsewhere in Africa.*" (See: Ron

Wilkins' Interview With Kwesi Pratt on the 50th Anniversary of Ghana

Independence,Pan-African

News Wire, May 07, 2007,

http://panafricannews.blogspot.com.)

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., on the contrary, enters into this debate like

the goat recently nominated by Nana Akufo Addo to represent him in the Upper

East Region. Even the planners of US Africom have since acknowledged that

the initial approach was a mistake!Okoampa did not mind whatever the

Americans were willing to ram down our throats! There he goes:

* "**In the lead-up to President George W. Bush's five-nation African

tour-of-duty," Okoampa

laments,

"the Director of Public Affairs at the United States' Embassy in Accra was

prompted to vehemently deny widespread rumors and allegations regarding Mr.

Bush's official visit to Ghana, from February 19-21, climaxing with the

bilateral ratification of an agreement between the American leader and

Ghana's President John Agyekum-Kufuor allowing the establishment of an

American military base in the country.*" (See: U. S. Embassy has Absolutely

Nothing to

Deny!!!,

by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article | Mon, 18 Feb 2008)

It must carefully be noted that even though Okoampa himself accepts and

welcomes "Mr. Bush's official visit to Ghana, from February 19-21", as

"climaxing with the bilateral ratification of an agreement between the

American leader and Ghana's President John Agyekum-Kufuor allowing the

establishment of an American military base in the country," for some very

strange reasons he still manages to refer to the opposition to these bases

as being based upon "vicious rumors and allegations"! "Allegations" that are

more or less his own! In U. S. Embassy has Absolutely Nothing to

Deny!!!,

he

writes:

"*Indeed, one does not have to look far to conclude that such political

mischief is the incontrovertible brainchild of the so-called National

Democratic Congress (NDC), the pseudo-political party that militarily

occupied Ghana for nearly twenty years. Then also, this is not the first

time that the bugbear, or specter, of the establishment of a U. S. military

base is being bandied about. It is also significant to observe that the

NDC's ideological twin-sister, the so-called Convention People's Party

(CPP), has been in the thick of such vicious rumors and allegations.*" (See:

U. S. Embassy has Absolutely Nothing to

Deny!!!,

by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article | Mon, 18 Feb 2008)

Okoampa concludes that nothing could be dumber than patriotism when the US

wants to be your master! For Okoampa, our country is not even worth anything

to die for! We can only develop in freedom when there are US guns pointed on

our heads! Listen to him:

"*And so pretending to play dumb, in the dubious name of patriotism, is

absolutely no perspicuous demonstration of ideological advancement as these

political nincompoops and outright charlatans would have unsuspecting

compatriots believe. And if these charlatans and cognitively challenged

rumor-mongers cared to know, they would have since long discovered to their

rude awakening, the fact that the hitherto self-proclaimed inveterate enemy

of U. S. “imperialism,” Chairman Rawlings, educated all his three officially

known children right here in the United States, and not Cuba, Libya or

Russia."**...Indeed, it comes as great news to learn of the United States

having emplaced heavy military equipment in the country in apparent, and

auspicious, readiness for any barbaric, or troglodytic, attempt by the

enemies of constitutional democracy to reverse the onward march of Ghana

towards the Danquahist ideal of “Development in Freedom.*” (See: U. S.

Embassy has Absolutely Nothing to

Deny!!!,

by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article | Mon, 18 Feb 2008)

The real problem is that it seems the Danquah Institute has accepted some

money to sell the US Africom project to Ghanaians! Okoampa should have been

dismissed from any self-respecting Institute. On the contrary, we saw the

Executive Director of the Danquah Institute doing his own article to promote

the US Africom project. He even cleverly made it to look as though it was

irreversible because the Kufour Administration had gone very far with it

already. In US MILITARY BASE IN GHANA: From "Baloney!" To "What’s In It For

Us"? Part

One,Saturday,

May 30, 2009,

*I argued that:*

*"I feel greatly incensed by the casual manner Mr. Ochere-Darko breaks this

news as though it is simply a matter of business, and not even making any

attempt to explain the basis of the conspiracy that he confesses in the

article. What does this mean? According to Asare Ochere Darko, even though

the NPP government did not allow Ghanaians to have a say in whether or not

they want a US military base on our soil, it is too late for the Atta-Mills

government to say “No”! In other words, without any national debate, whether

we like it or not the process has already been started and they cannot be

reversed, so we are as good as being already occupied by a foreign power!"*

Ochere Darko's never answered my questions:

*"Is this supposed to mean that the NPP government was simply throwing dust

into our eyes whilst plotting secretly to undermine our national

independence and sell us to the Americans? Fortunately for Ghana and Africa,

the elections did not go their way. From the article under discussion, it

seems to me that with Obama and Atta-Mills in power, the same special

interests behind the establishment of the military base in Ghana, the

military industrial complex of the USA, are acting as ventriloquists, using

their local stooges, to revive their diabolic plot, and rope the two

newcomers into the deal. Who else could fit better in the role of selling

Ghana to the imperialists more than the very right hand man of Nana Addo

Danquah Akufo Addo, the great Asare Ochere-Darko, himself? If you should ask

me what it was that worried me most in the article, I believe I would put my

finger on the following seven words written by Mr. Ochere-Darko: “After all,

the process has already started.” Most of us are still dazed by the

question. What this man is virtually telling Ghanaians is that for months,

the NPP has been secretly plotting with foreign powers to establish military

bases on our lands without letting out a word about it to the Ghanaian

public.* " (See: US MILITARY BASE IN GHANA: From "Baloney!" To "What’s In It

For Us"? Part

One,Saturday,

May 30, 2009, see also on

*Ghanaweb: US Military Base In

Ghana,

*Feature Article of Wednesday, 3 June 2009,* Columnist: *Mensah, Nana

Akyea

)

This publication and others provoked a reaction by Mr. James Victor Gbeho,

ex-diplomat and adviser to President J.E.A. Mills on Foreign Policy. Under

the caption, Gbeho: US can’t force AFRICOM on

Ghana, (Monday,

I June 2009. Myjoyonline.com) which proved to be enough to dispel the silly

effects of the Ochere-Darko's stupid article. Mr. Gbeho "assured the public

that government has its head properly screwed on and will not enter into any

agreement with the United States of America if the people do not approve of

it." "Ambassador Gbeho" was obviously reacting to the implications in the

Mr. Ochere Darko's article, that the "process" of establishing the Africom

headquarters and US military bases in Ghana "*had already started*" secretly

under the Kufour NPP Administration, and was culminating with the planned

visit of US President Barack Obama to Ghana on July 10 and 11, 2009, and

therefore felt the need to clear the air on what the visit portends for the

nation:

"*Sections of Ghanaians have publicly objected to the US government’s

desire to base its continental military force, United States Africa Command

(AFRICOM), in Ghana." Mr. Gbeho was reported to have said on Citi FM’s

breakfast show Monday, that "Ghanaians have some justification to be

apprehensive about the country’s relations with the United States, given the

way the latter has conducted its affairs in Latin America, in Asia and other

parts of the world. …there is a genuine fear; a fear that came to the

forefront just before the visit of President Bush to this country recently;

a fear that was articulated not by government but by the Ghanaian people

through the media and so on; and which forced President Bush to deny a few

things.” Assessing public dissent against the AFRICOM project, he said "far

from being a done deal, the people can rest assured that the government has

its head properly screwed on and would not betray the people’s trust.*"

(See: Gbeho: US can’t force AFRICOM on

Ghana,(Myjoyonline.com,

Monday, I June 2009.)

*Are You Talking About Patriotism And The Judicious Use Of Our Newly Found

Oil Wealth? *

To begin with, why are you so concerned about the judicious use or otherwise

of the newly found wealth, if one could link the use of the sovereign

guarantee behind the contentious Ghana-South Korean STX deal, to nothing

else other than that? The very oil wealth about whose judicious use this

debate is all about has been a subject of your jealousy and extreme chagrin

that Ghana seems stands to boost her economy by the billions of dollars with

this discovery! You have even gone as far as expressing your happiness at

the news that the Ivory Coast was claiming our jubilee oil field in the heat

of the recent boarder dispute between Ghana and La Côte d'Ivoire! How this

makes you a patriot worthy to be listened to by "the diligent but woefully

underpaid Ghanaian worker" needs to be properly explained to me. In any

case, what is your beef here? You are happy at the prospects the Ivory Coast

even claiming by force of arms, an oil discovery well into 60 kilometres

away from the nearest landmass of the Ivorian border, and you want people to

go and examine their minds when they say that you are not patriotic! Listen

to Kwame Okoampa himself:

"*I am glad that, finally, the Ivorians are beginning to assert their right

of access and enjoyment of Ghana's purportedly new-found oil wealth... It

also didn't quite make a lot of sense to me that an oil find that lay so

dangerously close to Ghana's border with Côte d'Ivoire would also have been

so [godlessly] uncharitable as to neatly parcel itself out for the exclusive

benefit and enjoyment of Ghanaians while the war-seasoned Ivorians continued

to languish in penury.... What is also wickedly fascinating is the sudden

fit of alarm that seems to have gripped the hitherto light-headed Ghanaians.

All of an auspicious sudden, it is beginning to home-in to these

soft-headed, happy-go-lucky and good-natured “Niggers” that premature

gloating over a pure gift of nature may yet turn out to be too good to be

true.*" (See: "Who Are These “Parliamentarian

Drivers”?

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., Feature Article of Tuesday, 16 March

2010.

I have already complained about this before, but I was more concerned with

the lack of courtesy rather than patriotism as Okoampa has long ceased to

surprise me. I have to confess that reading from a Ghanaian openly

supporting La Côte d'Ivoire and even suggesting war was a little bit

surprising, even by Okoampa standards. But even more surprising is the sheer

impudence of such an individual taking upon himself to lecture anyone about

patriotism and the judicious use of our oil wealth! The question I want to

primarily ask Okoampa is why does he pretend to be bothered about the

judicious use of our oil wealth when he himself wanted the Ivorians to take

it away from our hands? What I want to make clear to Okoampa is that without

the oil remaining in the hands of Ghana, the debate about its judicious use

would not even be on the horizon. I raise this issue in order to put it to

you that you are clearly equivocating and engaged in Orwellian double-talk

to facilitate the sale of your extremely nefarious political wares. And

whilst I am at it, I shall find time to expose some of them, particularly as

they bear on sovereignty and patriotism and imperialist designs on our oil

and its security implications for the people of Ghana. Suffice it to say for

the time being that, as I wrote in a previous article: "*Okoampa continues

by making demeaning remarks about his fellow countrymen. To use such

language indicates contempt for Ghanaian men and women. Why would any

Ghanaian who consider his country's vital interests so dispensable, still

present himself as a member of a "Think Tank" and expect respect from his

fellow Ghanaians? What does it mean if this man presents Nana Akufo Addo as

his favourite candidate, and Akufo Addo approves of this association with

him? Is Akufo Addo telling us that the Danquah Institute "think tank" is

fast becoming nothing but a nest of politically virulent and toxic ideas

contempt for the Ghanaian people?*" (See: Is It Not Time For Akufo Addo To

Distance Himself From The Danquah Institute Altogether?).

*The Danquah Institute, The NPP, And The STX Deal*

The first time I heard about the STX contract was on the website of the

Danquah Institute: "Press Release: DI Raises Redflag on $1.5B STX Korean

Credit Plus Oil Deal from Equitorial

Guinea".

It might be necessary to dedicate another piece to do justice on the

substantive issues of the STX deal. My objective here is to simply challenge

Okoampa and the Danquah Institute that they are not the patriots that they

want unsuspecting ghanaians to believe! It is not surprising that

Ochere-Darko has been able to mobilize the entire party structure behind

this campaign. The STX deal is not the only thing the think tank has been

thing about and making their thoughts public. One issue that has bothered me

has been the way people associated with the Danquah Institute has been

promoting the US Africa Command Headquarters project. The easy influence of

a major political party by such vipers is a serious source of concern.

It must be noted that the level of the NPP, this is the third time party is

towing the line of the Danquah Institute within a very short time! Some

worried observers see this as a drill or a rehearsal of the shape of things

to come should Akufo Addo be elected the President of this country.

Considering the type of noises coming from this group, it is very important

to raise the alarm that they are up to no good! Ant that the wheeler and the

dealer at the centre of it all, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo must of

necessitate not up to any good!

The reason why my grandson needs to see a psychiatrist is therefore, also

because it is very important for the Akufo-Addo busy-bodies like him not to

give the game away so soon! If he does not see a psychiatrist, Okoampa would

open the eyes of Ghanaians so wide to what the Akufo Addo camp has been up

to, ever since Bush said "Baloney!" to the US Africom Headquarters rumour in

Accra. Right now, my own real fear in all this, is that considering the

unprecedented leverage that the Danquah Institute now wields within the the

NPP, particularly the current Akufo Addo-led National Executive Committee,

as exemplified with the speed by which the NPP has proved to be effectively

and extremely susceptible to the very negative influence of the Danquah

Institute, the question that every concerned Ghanaian ought to be asking

must be: "Are we safe?" Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr. and Gabriel Asare

Ochere-Darko and co, are just a tip of the iceberg! My real worry is now

about Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo, and why he has chosen to be surrounded

by the birds of the same feathers! These are clearly people with doubtful

intentions and abilities. Is it by accident or just a co-incidence that

these two of the Danquah Institute happen to be the only known Ghanaians

campaigning for the establishment of US military bases on our soil? The New

Patriotic Party seems to have a new concept of patriotism which is surely

bizarre!

Give me the old time patriotism any time, anywhere, any day!

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