In the wake of the NDC’s candid information to Parliament as regards the amount of money that the Transition Team spent on its 3 month fact finding mission, the Narcotics Peddlers Party (NPP), as usual, has gone on a binge in its noise-making agenda to score nonexistent political points.
Not a single day passes by without NPP operatives trying very hard to make a mountain out of a molehill by referring to the “tea” that was served during the sittings of the Transition Team.
Forget the fact that media men, security personnel, drivers, stewards and persons with vital information, also drunk some of the tea.
Maybe, the crime of the NDC is that, the party is too caring (I Care For You) and so allowed all manner of persons to enjoy some of the tea.
Were it the self-seeking NPP that managed the transition process, there is no way media men, security personnel, stewards etc, would have had any tea to drink.
As far as the NPP high-ups are concerned, they are the only ones born to have the best part of life; the rest of the populace can die of hunger for all the NPP bigwigs care.
People like Nana Akomea have made it a point to constantly make reference to the ‘tea” issue.
Indeed, on Joy FM’s Newsfile Programme last Saturday, Akomea made sure that he needlessly interjected at all times with his listless “tea” issue.
Sounding like one of the NPP’s simple-minded serial callers, Akomea certainly bored listeners with his unfunny tea jokes.
But given that the tea matter is really an issue; is it not better for Mother Ghana that we are talking about tea instead of cocaine?
I ask again; is it not better that as a nation, we are talking about tea instead of talking about cocaine?
President John Evans Atta Mills pledged to lead a Team that will commit itself to building a Better Ghana and it is quite obvious that six months into his mandate, His Excellency the President is delivering on his campaign pledge.
Not too long ago, in Ghana, Ghanaians were forced to speak about nothing apart from cocaine.
From dawn to dusk, in tro-tros, in chop bars, in drinking spots, at work places, in homes, etc, it was, cocaine here, cocaine there, cocaine everywhere.
Cocaine took over as the main subject for discussion and, 24hrs a day and seven days a week, Ghanaians from North to South, East to West, discussed nothing but cocaine.
Indeed, cocaine was so available that on the beaches in the Western Region, cocaine was all over the place like confetti at a wedding ceremony.
Thanks to John Agyekum Kofi Diawuo “50 Cents” Kufuor and his looting NPP operatives, even day old babies were aware of the existence of cocaine.
It was said that in the eight years that “50 Cents” and his narcotics peddlers were in-charge of the affairs of state, the first word that babies uttered was “cocaine”.
That is the extent to which they infected the system with their illicit drug trade.
Of course, with the drug barons targeting teenagers, first and second cycle institutions were major hubs for the cocaine trade.
The mental hospitals also shared in the cocaine “glory” as lots of people reported with cocaine related mental cases.
Indeed, so deep was the NPP in the cocaine trade such that one of their MPs, dishonourable Eric Amaoteng set an unenviable record as the first ever Ghanaian Member of Parliament to be busted for trafficking drugs.
Another NPP MP, Kennedy Agyepong, has also been accused several times of being neck-deep in the drug business.
And to boot, NPP Flagbearer in the 2008 election, Akufo-Addo, has also been accused of being addicted to cocaine and wee as well as having close links with Ghanaian and foreign drug barons.
“50 Cents” Kufuor kept traveling not only for per diem; but also in order to be carrying cocaine on every trip to go and sell.
That is the extent to which “50 Cents” abused his high office.
The sons of NPP bigwigs like Appiah Menka and loud-mouth Nyaho Tamakloe were busted with cocaine.
A case of “like father like son”? Your guess is as good as ours.
Considering the extent to which Kufuor and his gang allowed Ghana to become a major hub for the illicit drug trade, the NPP was christened the Narcotics Peddlers Party.
The Ghana police also got drowned in the cocaine mess with 77 parcels of cocaine getting missing and cocaine turning into “kokonte” powder under the watch of the Police.
Of course, in today’s Better Ghana, the IGP, Paul Tawiah Quaye, does not have a best friend who is a cocaine baron as was the case when IGP Patrick Kwarteng Akyeampong admitted that Alhaji Issah Abbas, a convicted drug baron, is his (IGP’s) best friend.
For a fact, the United States State Department labeled Ghana as a major transit point for the illicit drug trade.
When Koku Anyidoho, Head of Communications at the Presidency recently said that among other things, President Obama chose to visit Ghana because President Atta Mills has committed Ghana to fighting the illicit drug trade, many were those affiliated to the narcotics peddlers party, who somersaulted all over the place over what Koku said.
Koku hit the nail right on the head and hurt the NPP so badly that, Ken Kuranchie and other NPP hirelings were let loose on Koku.
Indeed, Koku has been vindicated because in his address to Parliament, President Obama touched on the issue of the illicit drug trade and gave a thumbs-up to President Mills and his Government for making Ghana a less attractive place to the drug barons and their illicit drug trade.
For some reason, after Obama touched on the drug matter, the camera panned in the direction of the “50 Cents” and his narcotics peddlers MPs, and their forlorn looks gave them away.
President Atta Mills’ commitment to making Ghana an unattractive place for the drug barons and their illicit trade, has caught the attention of America and the world.
President Barrack Obama certainly had a cup of tea when he visited.
If President Obama had come to Ghana during the time of Kufuor, it would not have been strange to hear that his tea was laced with cocaine. That is how bad the situation was under the watch of John Agyekum Kofi Diawuo “50 Cents” Kufuor.
Changing a line in one of Shakespeare’s works, I say; “If tea be the issue for discussion in Atta Mills’ Better Ghana, let the tea flow waa waa waa”. The original line is “If music be the food of love…”
President Mills is indeed is building a Better Ghana if Ghanaians are discussing the issue of tea drinking and not cocaine trafficking and cocaine sniffing.
Omanpanyin Atta Mills; Ye Ma Wu Ayekooo!!!
Nana Biakoye (A True Patriot)
