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Who is/are this/these “New Patriot(s)”?"

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 Source: Mensah, Nana Akyea

Feature Article, by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.

A Rejoinder to: "Some Thoughts On Akufo-Addo's Acceptance Speech",

Feature Article of Sunday, 22 August 2010, Columnist: Okoampa-Ahoofe,

Kwame

HELLO MY DEAR GRANDSON!

You ask:

"The question now, therefore, becomes: Who is/are this/these “New

Patriot(s)”?" (See: Some Thoughts On Akufo-Addo's Acceptance Speech",

Feature Article of Sunday, 22 August 2010, Columnist: Okoampa-Ahoofe,

Kwame)

My Answer:

I do not even want to go into the merits and demerits of your

ridiculous answer to that question. You have such a back-log of

questions to answer and until you give the appropriate answers or

apologies, you are not going anywhere! Perhaps the last time I wrote

on this subject, it was too long so your attention span could be

blamed for this obvious lapse. This time, I shall try to make it short

to avoid such a situation next time! Are you trying to suggest that

you are now a patriot because Akufo Addo won the NPP primaries?

Whether you like it or not, you shall be going on earlier retirement

because your contributions extract rather than add votes to Mr. Nana

Akufo Addo.

I have already told you what a famous Roman general once said “I more

fear a stupid ally than I fear a clever enemy”. How right he was. I

have always considered Kwame Okoampa as the weakest chain in the NPP

propaganda machine as a result of his special skills in writing

prodigiously without thinking about the import of what he writes. If

you are not being haunted by your own unpatriotic and evil-meaning

writings, then you have probably changed tact just to pretend to be a

good Ghanaian for the sake of your cousin! But it is too late! We know

who you are!

OKOAMPA, PATRIOTISM AND OUR PRECIOUS OIL!

I shall continue to raise this issue until you come out to retract

those unguarded and extremely revealing comments! Okoampa begins an

article surreptitiously titled "Who Are These “Parliamentarian

Drivers”? with a shocker: "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." - "Who Are These “Parliamentarian Drivers”? By

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

2010.

Okoampa continues:

"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. It

was also rather fitfully amusing that some Ghanaians should already

begin to be angrily chary of the Ivorians; and, indeed, the irony of

it all is that these “Angernistas” are largely what one may aptly term

as diehard “Nkrumacrats,” the fanatical disciples of modern Ghana’s

first postcolonial premier. Dear reader, by now, it ought to be

obvious to you what “Sremu Sei Nana” (The King of the Savannah’s

Grandson) is getting at. And, of course, it is the stark fact that

where “Black Gold” is concerned, pan-Africanism is only the dream of a

hopeless lunatic."

As I wrote in a previous article, "Okoampa continues by making

demeaning remarks about his fellow countrymen. To use such language

indicates comtempt 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 Akuffo 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 Akuffo Addo To Distance Himself From

The Danquah Institute Altogether?).

OKOAMPA, PATRIOTISM, AND THE US AFRICOM

It is very important that Ghanaians do not forget so soon the kind of

role played by people like Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., vis-a-vis the

establishment of US military bases in Ghana, and judge for themselves

whether or not such a guy is a Ghanaian patriot or an American

patriot! "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. TheCheney 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, 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,.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,

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 USwants 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)

In the concluding paragraph to a recent article, "Okoampa Requires

Immediate Psychiatric Examination!*, Feature Article | By Nana Akyea

Mensah, The Odikro. A rejoinder to: "Quashigah Requires Immediate

Psychiatric I wrote:

"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. Thanks for opening my

eyes to what Mr. Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo really represents! 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!"

That's good enough for me! So good enough for me!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

Cheers!



Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro

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