Now Tantrums

We gender equality warriors worry about tantrums and their likely negative effects on the reputation of the motherland.

Recent tantrum throwing among our womenfolk public officials seem to be reinforcing other negative deeds by our sisters in governance.

Public tantrums are worsening our sisters' uncomplimentary public performance coming on the heels of other unwomanly public office acts.

One woman spearheaded depleting the national coffers through judgment debt (which ought not to have been debt at all), payouts. Then it happened that the one hired to guard against state official profligacy was herself a spendthrift.

Earlier, the night prowler had ensured those employed to put on leash the election thieves and brigands unleashed on to the motherland with the connivance of an Electoral Commission would rather deepen the unleash.

Only yesterday, it was all tantrums over chalk, unavailable after we had borrowed $156 million to buy it for teachers to teach my class three friends and their other mates.

In tantrums, a presidential wife berated and drubbed a poor head teacher doing her legitimate duty by requesting for chalk we had borrowed money to buy.

Now they say in German motherland, a diplomat, our motherland representative to that motherland, exhibited publicly undiplomatic behaviour towards a journalist, one of our own.

She publicly humiliated journalist Musa the way that presidential wife gave a dressing down to a chalk seeking head of a primary school.

And this time, we are talking a journalist diplomat who won a court battle over alleged unjustified claim of a Masters Degree in journalism she had indicated as pursuing and not as earned and awarded.

It's a challenge for those of us, my compatriots and I, warriors of gender equality. It is compounding our difficulties with battling the chauvinists around for gender parity and equality in the exercise of state and public power in the motherland.

If our best women to lead our motherland are shaping up as tantrum throwing, thieves, spendthrifts and justice-subverting night prowlers our liberating cause becomes more difficult.

At this point, it is only hearsay. But she who, according to Adwoa Kwaadu, is of two motherlands; she who succeeded he who botched the last three elections he presided over and still got an award of excellence for running elections, once threw a tantrum over an invitation to parliament. I mean, the she.

Rather she instructed our whole parliament to go to her because she answers to no one! I have first-hand experience how people born, and especially raised, in Alata motherland can be abrasive and thick-headed.

I was a Blaa Kutu refugee there. Please go and find Rider Haggard's 'She who must be obeyed' for what could be in store come 2016 elections. We, my concerned compatriots and I, are watching with eagle eyes.

Her appointment does take us back to the question of how congress manages to identify the crop of destructive elements among my compatriots for an assembly of dysfunctional elements in nation building.

I can see it all over her. She does not seem the kind who has compassion, and can be expected to have compassion on a people whose lives have been destroyed by dumso, burnt cedi and joblessness, to be just and free them. We'll see.

Women have been at the forefront of political and economic liberation of the motherland in the bygone years prior to the congress ascendancy through violence.

From Yaa Asantewaa through Esther Ocloo's pioneering role in manufacturing and industrialisation along with Kwame Nkrumah's Susan Alhassans and Naa Dedes, it had been women driving the prosperity of the motherland.

As a result, from where cometh the congress anti-development women is a mystery to me.

It doesn't make sense that after those generations of industrious and pace-setting women we will now have others who will do such destructive nation-wrecking deeds.

Any assumption or speculation that I am undermining the woman's liberation movement will be false, grossly speculative and without merit. Congress cause am.

Na yesterday's 'we no go sit down make them cheat us everyday' people cause am. They are sitting on everyone's neck cheating day and night; stealing banks in broad daylight.

I am only drawing attention so that if they want to mend their ways, which I doubt very much they will, they would take advantage to mend while they are still in charge, in order to curtail the damage they are inflicting against the woman's cause.

Some think they want to destroy deep enough to ensure when we manage to get rid of them, their successor will never succeed. They can try; but we have 2001-2008 to prove the rotten can be reversed with hard work.

Now after the tantrums, it's hard to tell what next would undermine the effort towards, and struggle for, parity and equality of the sexes in our motherland!

By Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh