It was refreshingly awful listening to Miss Ursula Owusu an NPP activist and Dr
Hannah Bissiw the deputy Minister of Water Resources Works and
Housing on Peace FM’s Kokroko program on Wednesday 16th July 2010.
The two were commenting on the issue of immorality raised by John
Jinapor an aide to the Vice President on Metro TV Good Morning Ghana
program the previous Monday.
Whiles I condemned John Jinapor’s reckless remarks in no uncertain
terms, I vehemently slight Miss Ursula Owusu’s equally slanderous attack on the
President and his Vice.
Ursula in her usual self questioned the moral uprightness of His
Excellency John Mills and the Vice President John Mahama.
“Under the constitution, I have every right to do whatever pleases me
with any adult by due consent”
“In pointing fingers at somebody, look closer to home -----If you are
talking about morals, the President himself has a child out of wedlock”
Those were the exact words of Miss Ursula Owusu.
I can’t believe that a public figure like Ursula Owusu would say such a
thing and refer to the President. What has the President got to do with
your brawl with the spokesperson to the Vice President?
Where on earth can a lawyer worth her sort make such stinking
proclamation and go away with it?
That there is something fundamentally wrong with us as a people is not
in doubt. I am out of words to describe this unfortunately loose,
unguarded and grossly mischievous comment from this gender activist and
politician who would want to be addressed as a lawyer. Clearly, this
cannot be considered as a civilized behaviour.
Politics is not about insults, it is about nation building, development
and exchange of ideas. Where in Ghana’s constitution is producing a
child out of wedlock illegal?
Kwame Nkrumah’s first son was from a different mother, Professor Busia
had two sons before settling down, and Chief Kufour is not the son of
Madam Theresa Kufour. Does it make all these statesmen immoral?
Ursula should know that she is a woman and when it comes to insults, I
don’t think she is that emotionally strong to withstand her own
description. She is extremely dirty in her language and an apology to
womanhood.
It is quite interesting to hear/see people fight against certain things
whiles at the same time doing those things that they claim to be
fighting against.
For me, her position as a gender activist has been exposed as a
political rhetoric without the slightest possession of any of the
qualities of a gender activist. Her public utterances are so selfish,
opportunistic, arrogant and laden with serious intellectual
difficulties.
On one hand you want the Vice President to discipline his spokesman for
gross indiscipline and on the other hand, making sarcastic statements
about the President and his Vice. It is so embarrassing to hear this
woman speak.
Ursula seems to have developed loose mouth and she talks as if she knows it all. I
don’t know what this woman wants. You play dirty politics and if a comment is
directed at you, then you try to play the gender card,
just because you claim to be gender advocate. She is really pissing
everybody off. Ursula, do your advocacy thing. That could be the veil
for you to hide behind and don’t allow your political ambition to clout
your way of thinking so as to erode further the remainder of your
integrity if any. And learn to shut up because shutting up sometimes
takes the focus off you, and it shows maturity as well.
It is very sad and degrading for women to come out in public to announce their
immorality and other deviant behaviour without any iota of shame. Can these people
be good wives muchless mothers?
Where then is the future of our children and role models for our youths?
Ursula’s conduct is not only offensive but repugnant. If I may ask could it be
menopausal syndrome setting in? I am just wondering, maybe she
needs our pity instead of condemnation. I suggest she visit the
physician, it could be hormonal imbalance.
We are doing so well at running this country down. I really I’m not very conversant
with how much we, the people of Ghana, have been influenced
by westernization. What kind of world do Ghanaians live in? Where the
flaws in man is not to be mention for the sake of making everyone feel
good; where a sitting President is stingingly bad-mouthed for the sake
of unruly freedom.
Ghanaians must learn to cut the crap out of blind-globally-accepted
democracy and learn to pursue godly accepted democracy where freedom and rights come
with responsibility. We should pursue what is good for our
unique nation; or else we would be competing with Hell.
I rest my case.
Emmanuel Dela Coffie
emmanuelcoffie488@yahoo.com/www.delacoffie.wordpress.com
