Celebrating Twenty-Eight Percent

By Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh

Congress is celebrating mediocrity with pride.
A squealer, one of the congress infested student-cause betrayer kingpins, is at it again in his usual dissonant voice squeal.

He thinks everyone must hail the little about a quarter (28%) student qualification obtained by WASSCE results, to enter university.

During the 1986 O Level-JSS migration, drastic transformation in the bottleneck high school-university transition, at a woeful 3% in those days, was promised. An exponential increase in the number of students transiting successfully from high school to university was, thus, to be expected.

Unsurprisingly, and so-matter-of-factly with congress, I haven't found any projections anywhere of what that figure would have been expected to be in 2014.

Those who know, and would willingly attest to, would readily recollect how congress politicians from that time on, have always stolen state money, the motherland's money, to send their offspring out of the motherland for their schooling.

It hasn't mattered whether they have been president's children or ministers' children or MMDCE's children. The defence has always been: 'The school fees are paid by my friends.' Yes, indeed, paid in anonymity by friends whose names have never been made public.

Or fees are paid by faceless friends whose faces have never been seen in public.

Only two weeks ago, I heard on BBC that in Ireland that transition rate is 94%. That is why I am surprised somebody called a minister can gloat over 28% in a globalised 2014 where fierce competition demands training and producing well-schooled minds.

Little wonder congress achievement is at such nadir and its mediocrity at an apogee.

They have been like that since the beginning.
In the mid-80s, a whole minister, a typical ego-deflated congress appointee, after receiving a telephone call at dawn from Canada, jumped in excitement shouting 'Oburonihoyℇhu.'

They may shout Nkrumah, but they are always undoing black consciousness.

When Nkrumah speaks the black man is capable of managing his own affairs, they respond in deed with a black motherland's economy can only be managed by a white IMF.

Only a fortnight ago, when I told a young woman of congress faith that Agona Swedru had an excellent fixed telephone service when I sojourned there 1969-1971, she wouldn't believe it. Neither would she believe that during BlaaKutu's time, our fixed phone service was in such a good shape that you could walk to Accra-North post office and phone anybody anywhere in our world.

Congress mediocrity marvels about things that are easily achievable and that is why they are so incapable of taking the motherland anywhere called developed.

They have no capacity to inspire anyone; except of course, into thievery.

Of late, I have been drumming into the head of my nephew's brilliant son, who thinks little else beyond being a politician, that he would have to work for some ten to fifteen years after school to build or buy a house or pay rent, pay bills and learn to run a home (of spouse and children) before he or she can be a successful politician.

Otherwise I do assure him and counterpart her, they would become thieving politician should they enter politics without real life experience.

I have told both his father and himself that the first step to working and living an experience of work and happiness that would be politically beneficial to the motherland and her offspring, is to learn and actually pound Fufu with a wɔma (pestle). They are the hard things that teach you about life and how to live it successfully by thinking also about others and not just yourself.

The fufu pounding and early morning farm visits on Saturdays when school is in session are the experiences that make politicians politic to benefit the body politic; otherwise you risk becoming a thieving politician. I am sure the ɔsono 'I am this, I am that' scribe man ever learned to pound, and actually pounded fufu, especially on Sundays, in his life.

You saw how congresspeople celebrated an August 29 confirmation of their thieving of an election results. They celebrated a court decision that unleashed a gang of thieves who have since run the economy aground. They are unrepentant; unashamed of the intractable economic debacle and mess they have steered the motherland into. Just watch out for pain, more and more pain, upon the arrival of the IMF bailout.

'You ain't seen nothing yet!'
Endeavour to show congress your disapproval of their: 'we are chopping; if you don't like it, go jump into the sea' attitude. I pray you, my compatriots, would let Friday red be red for as long as you continue to see economic red.

Congress enemies of the motherland's progress shall be crushed. Occupy continua! A luta continua, vitória é certa.Nokwarebℇdinkunim (Truth shall triumph).

By Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh