TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: DAMPTEY IS A HYPOCRITE!

A Rejoinder to: Feature Article, Kwesi Pratt should be the last person to ..., By: Damptey, Daniel Danquah, (2009-11-11)

"This Danquah Damtey is not a serious minded person. You should have started this crusade when NPP was in power. Now that you are out of and you mow seem to know the right thing, nobody will take you serious not even your own party members.If you are working, I will urge you to work hard but if you are not, then I will ask you to look for work."

- Ghanaweb Comment: Hypocrite, Author: Ishimoto, Date: 2009-11-11 09:12:47, Feature Article, Kwesi Pratt should be the last person to ..., By: Damptey, Daniel Danquah, (2009-11-11)

The question as to the whereabouts of Mr. Daniel Danquah Damptey when President Kufour was in power, is a very legitimate one indeed because under the NPP Administration of President Kufour, the perception was very much rife like today, if not worse, as the records indicate that Kufour loaded his administration with as much as 85% Akans! At that time, we did not hear from the holier-than-thou Church-fund-raising Dampest to alert us "on a very dangerous precedent or agenda". It was very much OK for our friend who, all of a sudden, now seems to have had a very fresh understanding of the constitution, to keep quiet then.

There is this "Author ..." whose insightful message needs to be relayed:

"Master, listen to yourself. only small minded people will take what this damptey wrote seriously. when ku4 loaded his administration with 85% ashanti/akans, it was ok for damptey, he saw nothing wrong with it. but he's crying wolf at attah mills because he's administration doesn't have exactly equal ethnic representation even though it's 1000 times better than what happened in ku4's administration, which had only one ewe minister.

That is the hypocrisy on damptey's part that kwesi pratt and co were talking about. it is ok for ku4 to have 85% ashanti/akan ministers but wrong for mills to have 20% ewes, 20% northners, 15% gas and 45% all other tribes (ashanti/akans).

If this is not a change from ku4's 85% ashanti/akan ministers i wonder what kind of change you want.

KWESI PRATT AND CO WERE RIGHT. DAMPTEY IS HYPOCRITE. WHEN IT WAS KU4, HE DIDN'T COMPLAIN BUT SINCE IT IS MILLS, IT WRONG. IF THAT IS NOT BEING A HYPOCRITE, I WONDER WHAT THAT IS?"

Ghanaweb Comment: THEN WHY SHD DAMPTEY COMPLAIN, Author ..., 2009-11-11 04:11:11, Feature Article, Kwesi Pratt should be the last person to ..., By: Damptey, Daniel Danquah, (2009-11-11)

DAMPTEY IS A SPOILT CHILD!
I am surprised that Mr. Damptey admits that he handed over an article, as a known columnist, to an editor of a newspaper that is a personal friend. The article is quite naturally published in his name. Instead of calling his friend to correct the anomaly, he remains silent for weeks. And after receiving a good bashing from the press and the general public for the uncouth language in the article,as well as its complete and generalised stupidity, he is now looking for a way out to save his face. He himself seems to agree with some of the criticisms:

"While I associate myself with most of the sentiments expressed in the write up. I would like to state that I take strong exception to reference to President Mills as “simpa panin”as “Rawlings poodle”. Mills is our President and we should accord him the respect he deserves. The Lord says we should not touch his anointed and this also applies to President Mills. Even though the NDC denigrated the presidency under Kufuor by calling him unprintable names with even ex President Rawlings calling him 'Atta Ayi, a thief and a murderer, I have decided since the election of Mills as President not to tread such a path. I will give respect to whoever respects should be accorded. And this principle I will try to uphold no matter the circumstances and as long as the Good Lord gives me breath. This much I pledge."

How was he expecting the panellists who discussed the article know of this pledge of his in the first place?

How many times do we go to Ghanaweb to research into the original writers of published articles when the name of the writer clearly published in the by-line? He could not even make a simple phone call to his own editor-friend to correct his own mistake, but he childishly expects Kwesi Pratt to surf on the Internet to visit Ghanaweb in order to ascertain the name of the original writer of an article published and furnished with a name on it!

"If Kwesi Pratt and his fellow pretenders had read the article with a fine toothcomb," he stupidly writes, "they would straight-away have known that such an article did not originate from my end. I have my own peculiar style of writing and any commentator on national issues must be discerning enough to get to the truth before passing judgments. Is Kwesi Pratt telling us that, inspite of all his bravado and 'paa-paa�he has never visited Ghanaweb before? Wonders, they say will never end."

I think we are dealing with a spoilt child here! What kind of nonsense is this? This spoilt child also admits that:

"I had some discussions with Baby Ansabah, Editor of the New Punch about appointments by the Mills administration. I told him somebody had compiled a list of such appointments which seem to tilt in favour of a particular tribe. I told him I would send a copy for his perusal and necessary action and this was exactly what I did. And up till the time the programme was being aired, I did not know it had been published with me as the author. I believe Baby Ansabah decided to use my name because I was the one who sent it to him and what I sent to him did not include the name of the author and so would not blame him much. I would not like to take credit for what is not entirely my own. But let it be noted that I am not the author of the script."

And he did not even bother to correct his own mistake of not including the name of the original writer, that is if we must even believe his version of the story, yet he wants us to go to Ghanaweb each time we see an article published under his name for verifications!

DAMPTEY IS A HYPOCRITE!
Daniel Danquah Damptey makes a lot of accusations of "hypocrisy" against Kwesi Pratt, Jnr., but comes strangely short of the facts, when it comes to the business of substantiation. First of all, he himself admits that Baby Ansabah, Editor of the New Punch published the offensive article in his name. Why does he not blame the Punch?

Of course, Mr. Damptey, "and so would not blame him [Baby Ansabah, Editor of the New Punch] much" is all you can say! Blame your hypocritical self! Even if one were to be a regular visitor to Ghanaweb, does it mean we know what each writer is saying? Let alone all the commentaries? The kind of lame questions he asks shows that quite probably, we have an idiot on our hands here. Instead of blaming the Punch, he rather prefers to ask: Continued    Source: Nana Akyea Mensah

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