Most Ghanaians Are Not Members of NDC, Mr. Pratt

We are hereby compelled to place it on record, once again, that the decision to compile a new National Biometric Voters’ Register (NBVR) was not a capriciously unilateral decision taken by the Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), Mrs. Jean Adukwei Mensa, as shameless National Democratic Congress’ water-boys like Mr. Kwesi Pratt, Jr., Editor-Publisher of the so-called Insight newspaper, would have Ghanaians and the rest of the world believe (See “EC Is Not ‘God’; Let Them Not Think They Have ‘Unfettered Powers’ – Kwesi Pratt” PeaceFM.com / Ghanaweb.com 5/30/20). Rather, the decision to compile a new National Voters’ Register (NVR) was deliberately and extensively debated on the august Floor of Ghana’s Parliament and resoundingly approved before the administrators of the IEC decided to carry out the same.

Paid National Democratic Congress’ agitprop hacks like the widely discredited self-proclaimed founding member of the rump-Convention People’s Party (r-CPP) can simply not selectively decide on which aspect of the truth of the decision by the IEC to compile a new National Biometric Voters’ Register to sell to the global Ghanaian community. The stark and “unfettered” truth is on record for all interested parties to readily access the same. The question of the legitimate Voters’ Identification Card to be used in the 2020 General Election has also been conclusively resolved to demand any time-wasting re-visitation of the same at this juncture. Indeed, even as former IEC Chairperson Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, the National Democratic Congress’ appointee and the longest-serving at this post, used to routinely say, by way of a brushoff to any protesting stakeholders, “If you disagree with my decision, you can go to court!”

It is also rather absurd for Mr. Pratt to suggest that the Parliament-approved decision behind the imperative necessity for the compilation of a new Voters’ Register must be promptly put on hold, merely because the cynical and narcissistic and megalomaniacal leaders of the faux-socialist National Democratic Congress (NDC) are fervidly averse to the same. The most logical question to ask here is the following: Precisely when did the political whims and caprices of the leaders of the National Democratic Congress come to effectively replace the constitutional mandates of both Ghana’s Parliament and the Independent Electoral Commission? Let us also go one step further – and I have seen and played the WhatsApp videoclip – to sternly warn nation-wrecking self-infatuated megalomaniacs like Mr. Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah, of the Brazil World Cup infamy, that any dastardly attempt to criminally and foolishly stall the onward salutary development of Ghana’s democratic culture will be fiercely met with the sort of “nuclear” deterrent force that could very well culminate in this self-serving nation-wrecker and robber-baron and his associates and cronies paying the ultimate price for their heinous act of high treason or sedition.

Let these moral reprobates and criminal scofflaws also fully appreciate the fact that absolutely no single individual or group of individual Ghanaian citizens is more important than the integrity and the inviolable establishment and maintenance of Ghanaian democracy, and any desperate and dastardly attempt to “revolutionarily” reverse the course of Ghana’s democratic and socioeconomic and cultural development would be fiercely met with a punitive force the likes of which has never been witnessed in our beloved country’s postcolonial history. Mr. Afriyie-Ankrah and his thievish cronies cannot have a more legitimate right to grabbing undemocratic power than the overwhelming majority of the Ghanaian electorate that auspiciously sent the payola-guzzling and double-salary scamming members of the Mahama cabinet packing out of Jubilee House in the wake of the 2016 General Election.

Among the Akan, there is a terse and very instructive maxim that runs as follows: “If you are dead, you better be content with your grave.”

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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD

English Department, SUNY-Nassau

Garden City, New York

May 30, 2020

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