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28.11.2014 Feature Article

Throw Stones Wisely, "Disco-Christo Boy"

Throw Stones Wisely, Disco-Christo Boy
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One of the rump-Convention People's Party (r-CPP) malcontents came after me the other day. At least that was what I figured he supposed himself to be doing. This time around, even as the disgruntled chap had done numerous times in the past, he officiously presumed to expose what Mr. Disco-Christo Boy envisaged to be the hypocrisy and advantage-taking mischief of the leaders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), when it comes to the country's main opposition party's treatment of its Muslim membership.

Well, I have challenged the godforsaken Belgium-based hustler and scam-artist to give his readers the Muslim equivalent of the following ideological confession and mantra from Mr. Kwame Nkrumah: "I am a Marxist and a Christian, and I see no contradiction." Anyway, it is quite fascinating that faux-Leftists like the Disco-Christo Boy, who have never had any meaningful place for Muslims among their ranks, would so abruptly and self-righteously presume to stump their moral, intellectual and political and ideological superiors on the question of the place of Ghanaian Muslim members among the ranks of the scions of the Danquah-Busia-Dombo House of Proud Property-Owning Democrats.

You see, the Tamale-born Alhaji Aliu Mahama (may his soul find eternal rest) may not have been nominated Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, but the man wielded considerable power and influence as Vice-President and two-time running-mate of President John Agyekum-Kufuor; Veep Aliu Mahama had also acted as President of the Republic of Ghana more than several times while Mr. Kufuor was performing his official duties abroad. And so we can hereby confidently challenge Mr. Disco-Christo Boy Ali Masmadi to tell his readers whereabouts his tenure had President Nkrumah named a practicing Ghanaian Muslim as his Vice-President.

The fact of the matter is that the Show Boy is the only postcolonial elected Ghanaian leader who had no functional second-in-command. Such is the psychologically proven temperament and character of congenital dictators. They are so pathologically egocentric and egomaniacal that they shamelessly arrogate all significant and meaningful constitutional powers unto themselves. They have a morbid self-image that may be aptly characterized as "God Complex." Remember the patently blasphemous Young Pioneer Movement's youth-wing mantra of "Nkrumah Never Dies"?

And so discerning readers can well imagine how a United African Federation would have looked like under the constitutional authority of Pesident Kwame Nkrumah. The Disco-Christo urchin should also tell his readers which Ghanaian Muslim citizen and member of the tautological Convention People's Party became a member of Mr. Nkrumah's close-knit, inner-circle trio of the so-called Presidium/Praesidium, the two or three CPP cabinet appointees (depending on the widely known erratic and volatile mood of the Show Boy) who routinely deputized for President Nkrumah whenever the UK-knighted (I bet you are pleasantly surprised to learn this) pro-Communist dictator and Ghana's self-appointed Life-President left the country on tours and junkets abroad.

At least I can readily name two: Mr. Kojo Botsio and Nana Tsibu-Darko. Messrs. Komla Agbeli Gbedemah and Ebenezer Ako-Adjei may also have been presidium insiders at various times in the early stages of Ghana's independence, when these two gentlemen were still in the good books of the Nzema-Nkroful native of Sehwe-Dadieso and long before the latter, Bono-Wenchi. The cut-and-paste critic of more vitriol than substance should also tell his readers about the number of Ghanaian Muslims who have been named substantive vice-presidents by the Rawlings-fangled National Democratic Congress (NDC). If we go back to the late 1970s, the Danquah-Busia-Dombo camp can boast of having nominated at least three Muslim northern Ghanaians for the slot of Vice-Presidential Candidate.

And yet, NDC sympathizers like the Disco-Christo Masmadi Ali boy would have his audiences believe that it is the so-called National Democratic Congress and the rump-Covention People's Party that have the record-to-best when it comes to cross-ethnic and cross-cultural inclusiveness, as well as the preceding being, supposedly, the most hospitable political "umbrellas" for northern-descended Ghanaian citizens. You see, Mr. Masmadi, if you ever again decide to light a match at the integrity and credibility of your far more astute, forsighted, administratively competent and inclusive political opponents, just make sure you are not living in a straw hut.

Finally, the Disco boy would have the Ghanaian Muslim community, and the rest of the world, believe that it is anathema for leaders of the New Patriotic Party to either sign onto membership of the International Democratic Union (IDU) or partake in conferences sponsored by the latter, merely because some of the member national parties are Christian in orientation. How absurd! Consequently, Mr. Masmadi would have NPP Muslims pressure party leadership into signing the NPP into membership of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC); interestingly, the critic is making no such demand on the faux-socialist "Nayele Pharmacists" of the so-called National Democratic Congress (or is it the Narcotics Distributors' Congress?). And Masmadi would have the world believe that yours truly is at his wits end!

Well, it should be instructive to hear what the GMO Latterday Apostle has to say about Mr. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia and the NDC's 2008 participation in the Athens, Greece, conference of the Socialist International (SI), the global conglomerate of Moscow-dominated socialist-oriented national political parties. The Ghanaian delegation that participated in the Athens conference also included such front-bench party bigwigs as Mr. Kofi Attor and the recently deceased Prof. Kofi Awoonor (See "NDC Attends Socialist International Meeting" Ghana News Agency / Ghanaweb.com 7/9/08).

And, oh, I almost forgot this one: Just recently, the NDC's Mosquito General led a delegation of party stalwarts to Communist China and returned with a mission statement proposing the establishment of a pro-Red (or Communist) NDC University for party youths. The Disco-Christo boy should also tell his readers and the rest of the world what he thinks of the NDC University of Red Politics at Kasoa Junction or thereabouts.

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Garden City, New York
Nov. 27, 2014
E-mail: [email protected]

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