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Sammy Gyamfi’s Agitprop Stupidity Is Typical of NDC

Feature Article Sammy Gyamfi
JUN 3, 2020 LISTEN
Sammy Gyamfi

You see, the leaders of Ghana’s main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), feel so smug and cavalier in their murderous savagery that they seem to think and believe that abducting Supreme Court and High Court Judges under thick darkness and summarily executing them is like First-Aid Massage, compared to the brutal mauling death of Mr. George Floyd by fired Minneapolis, Minnesota, white Police Officer Derek Chauvin (See “Retract and Take It Down – Sarkodie Scolds Sammy Gyamfi” Ghanaweb.com 6/2/20). It just occurred to me that the surname of Mr. Floyd’s killer sounds strikingly like “Chauvinism.” I have yet to read the original twitter post or report of the same, in which the NDC’s so-called National Communications Officer, Mr. Samuel “Sammy” Gyamfi is reported to have compared the Parliament-approved compilation of the new National Biometric Voters’ Register (NBVR), in the runup to the 2020 General Election, to the sort of quite common Neo-Nazi Chokehold that precipitated the barbaric murder of Mr. Floyd.

It is quite common because it is the sort of state-sponsored terrorist method for summarily and officially executing African-Americans, street-justice-style, that replaced the routine and officially sanctioned lynch-mob culture of the Pre-Civil Rights era. I left Ghana about this time in 1985 and have been living right here in the United States for just as long. I left my country of birth in my mid-20s, when the National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress was just a toddler or, perhaps, not even yet born, so Mr. Gyamfi may be forgiven for making such a wicked fool and a nuisance out of himself and the very political establishment that gave him such a clearly oversized portfolio. We must also put on record here that even the Founding-Father of the National Democratic Congress, the former junta leader and half-Ghanaian politician who has killed more Ghanaian citizens than any other Ghanaian leader before and/or after him in the postcolonial era, would be embarrassed to hear the official spokesperson of his own party liken Mrs. Jean Adukwei Mensa, the Chairperson of Ghana’s Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), to Officer Derek Chauvin and the entire hoodlum pack of Neo-Nazi Trump Political Machine called the Republican Party of the United States of America.

If Mr. Gyamfi and his European Airbus SE Payola-Guzzling Muggers of the Ghanaian taxpayer have any problem with the compilation of the new National Biometric Voters’ Register, the institutional establishment that they ought to be confronting is our National Assembly or Ghana’s Parliament, and not Mrs. Mensa or the Independent Electoral Commission. Even more significantly, it is inexcusably preposterous for Mr. Gyamfi and the hoodlum pack of the leadership of the National Democratic Congress to be characterizing the compilation of the new National Voters’ Register (NVR) as a veritable exercise in “Xenophobia,” if, indeed, contrary to what the likes of Messrs. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia, Mahama Ayariga, Haruna Iddrisu and, yes, Candidate John Dramani Mahama would have Ghanaians and the international community believe, the compilation of the new NVR is likely to disenfranchise a significant number and/or percentage of eligible bona fide Ghanaian citizens. Maybe the leaders of the National Democratic Congress need to be told what the word “Xenophobia” means.

In sum, it is crystal clear, per the psychologically warped logic and contention of Mr. Gyamfi that the Mahama Posse is hell-bent on packing Ghana’s National Voters’ Register with ineligible foreign nationals as well as have the latter determine the outcome of the 2020 General Election. The preceding pretty much reminds yours truly of a slogan that we used to sing in the wake of the so-called Rawlings’ Revolution, in the wake of Chairman Rawlings’ overthrow of the Limann-led democratically elected government of the People’s National Party (PNP). The half-sung slogan of eternal vigilance of the Ghanaian people went something like this: “We No Go Sit Down Make Them Cheat We/Us Every Day, Hell, No!”

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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD

English Department, SUNY-Nassau

Garden City, New York

June 2, 2020

E-mail: [email protected]

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