Omane-Boamah Is A Scofflaw, Dede Djaba A Pathological Liar
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Garden City, New York
Nov. 13, 2014
E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net
I have decided to combine two otherwise disparate themes in this brief column, largely because of time constraints and the necessity of promptly responding to the sophistry and political mischief of the two notorious characters whose names make up the caption of this write-up.
Dr. Edward Omane-Boamah, Communications Minister for the Mahama-led government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), was widely reported a couple of days ago to have called on key members of the country's main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to offer "responsible opposition" and stop provoking and fueling labor agitations (See "NPP Must Offer Responsible Opposition, Not Fuel Labor Agitation - Omane-Boamah" MyJoyOnline.com 11/11/14).
The call itself, to be certain, would be deemed both laudable and progressive, were Dr. Omane-Boamah not notorious for being a brazen, vindictive and impudent scofflaw. And it would be a great pity if the former Atta-Mills deputy cabinet appointee turns out to have so soon forgotten how Dr. Omane-Boamah and Mr. Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa flagrantly and criminally defied the Wood-presided Supreme Court of Ghana in the matter of Okudzeto-Ablakwa And Omane-Boamah Versus Obetsebi-Lamptey, in which the Court ordered the immediate return of real-estate and landed property legitimately acquired by the former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey.
In other words, if the legal and justice systems, as well as the parliamentary system, of Ghana were functioning as they ought to, there would be no way, whatsoever, for Dr. Omane-Boamah to be holding the post and title of substantive Minister of Communications, let alone the latter's deputy. It is also inexcusably insolent for Dr. Omane-Boamah to presume that, somehow, public and civil servants fighting over their right to financial and economic self-determination lack the requisite cognitive - or critical-thinking - skills to look towards their own good, without the supposedly devious and cheap political-point-scoring instigation and connivance of some unnamed key operatives of the New Patriotic Party.
Now, regarding Ms. Georgette Djaba, the woman keeps chameleonically changing her name; in her latest Ghanaweb article captioned "An Albatross On NPP-UK" (11/13/14), Georgette calls herself "Ami Dede Djaba." If this is no significant indication of a person morbidly afflicted with identity crisis, I don't know what else is. It also gives her audience an instructive insight into her abject lack of credibility and trustworthinesss. I must also underscore the fact that at no time or period have I said to "Ami Dede," or whatever names she chooses to call herself these days, that Nana Akufo-Addo is my "cousin." And so I don't know where such nonsense is coming from.
Needless to say, anybody who has read an adequate number of my columns on Nana Akufo-Addo knows fully well that the man is my paternal "uncle." And I take great pains to differentiate between the consanguineal terms of "cousin" and "uncle."
At any rate, since she was the one who brought it up, it bears revealing to readers, plainly, that when Ms. Djaba unilaterally suggested the idea and possibility of the two of us meeting during my familial trip to London, the "New Juaben Native's" covert motive, in retrospect, was clearly to get me to swear an asinine Oath of Party Allegiance before the rascally likes of Kofi Crabbe and the other members of the anti-Akufo-Addo faction of the NPP-UK executive. And, indeed, Ms. Djaba managed to get me on the phone, in a three-way conference call, with at least two of her fellow goons, who rather crudely attempted to coerce me into pledging to take marching orders from them as their sole condition for meeting and conferring with me.
I promptly and flatly rejected such bizarre overture and bluntly made it loud and clear to these rascals and mischief-makers that my first and foremost loyalty was to my conscience. And that effectively ended any communication and/or contact with these opportunistic political exiles. The entire idea and decision of having me confer with the anti-Akufo-Addo coup-plotters' faction of the NPP-UK exectives were "Ami Dede's," not mine, by the way. I did not even know anything about any of these rascals except, of course, the Kulungugu-sounding name of Sammy Kofi Crabbe.
Indeed, it was after my flat refusal to be conned by "Ami Dede" (as in Ali Baba) and her cohorts of anti-Akufo-Addo faction of the NPP-UK And Ireland executives that "Ami Dede" her cold, or frozen, feet. She called me at five or six times, shortly thereafter, with one petty prevaricative excuse after another, such as "I am in a traffic jam" and "I am in the area but I can't find your place." At absolutely no time was "Ami Dede" bold and courageous enough to tell me upfront that she could not make it to my sister-in-law's, where I was staying.
But even more significantly, "Ami Dede" has this article on the Internet dated August 6, 2010, in which she reveals her true colors for the treacherous and rabidly anti-Akyem and anti-Akufo-Addo "NPP" goon that she veritably is. The article was published as a press statement/release; and it is captioned as follows: "NPP Congress: London-Based Lawyer Endorses Alan." Dear reader, avail yourself of the contents of the afore-referenced article/press statement and make up your mind. In particular, take note of what is not said about Nana Akufo-Addo. There is the rub.
Well, I am not a member of the New Patriotic Party, and so I don't know precisely what she means, when "Ami Dede" implicitly reprimands Nana Akufo-Addo for not condemning me for aptly and legitimately exposing Mr. Kyerematen's electioneering campaign mendacities. It is also a damn shame and a pity that "Ami Dede" glaringly fails to tell her readers where her own father, Mr. Henry George Djaba, was born and brought up. After all, she does the same for her mother and grandparents in her latest genealogy-bragging piece.
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