Is Ras Mubarak Suggesting Domelevo Was an NDC Mole?

Before I delve into the subject at hand, let me send an unmistakable signal to those imputing personal motives to my recent article captioned “New Juaben Is Not the Coequal of Akyem-Abuakwa,” that I have absolutely no vested personal prejudice or “envy,” as one of my critics and respondents wrote, whatsoever, in the monarchical power and influence of either Asanteman or Okyeman. I have personally turned down at least a couple of opportunities to claim chieftaincy titles. Inasmuch as I admire the institution of the monarchy, in particular the Asante Monarchy, which, by the way, is also my patrimony, I have absolutely no desire to grovel brutishly and servilely before The Asantehene, for one striking example, like all of us saw the Bantamahene and other supplicants do the other day.

I am fiercely a postcolonial republican, in Danquahian parlance, and makes absolutely no apologies about the same. I cannot be psychologically caged by a patently effete institution that could not boldly and bravely stand up against 20 years of the tyrannical and bloody Rawlings-Tsikata Diarchy. It is as simple as that. I have a cultural and archival admiration for the chieftaincy establishment, but that is about the fullest extent of my professional and academic interest in the same. Fundamentally, I have absolutely no respect for a monarchical status that, for the most part, is not attained by merit, in the traditional sense of the term. This is a sentiment I acquired during the Rawlings-Tsikata years. I lost my psychological and cultural innocence a longtime ago. No matter the number of volumes and quality of books Sir-Daasebre Emeritus Professor Oti-Boateng holes up in London, UK, and writes and publishes, my irreparable loss of interest in Ghana’s system of the monarchy, besides its archival significance as teachable museum piece of artifact, cannot be revived or restored. But the analyses and discussions of historical truths are something else altogether.

At any rate, and turning on to a different subject, the suggestion by the outgoing Kumbungu National Democratic Congress’ Member of Parliament, Mr. Ras Mubarak – I thought he was still somewhere in the Arab World honeymooning or slaving for his second trophy wife – that made the media headlines several weeks ago that, somehow, President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo asked Auditor-General Daniel Yaw Domelevo to proceed on leave, a decision that was apparently strictly based on statutory precedent, so as to enable Finance Minister Kenneth “Ken” Ofori-Atta to deviously avoid not accounting for the COVID-19-fighting expenditures before the august House is both scandalous and preposterous (See “Ken Won’t Account for COVID-19 Funds in Budget Review – Assibey-Yeboah” Modernghana.com 7/21/20).

The fact of the matter is that the Office of the Auditor-General is functionally independent of any individual Auditor-General. This statutory establishment is run by a symphonic suit or panoply of several hundred professional accountants spread all across the country. Mr. Daniel Domelevo was only one of many staff accountants who rose to head the Department of the Auditor-General. He was, for the most part, a healthily crusading Department Head who brought a lot of positive input into the ways and means by which public and government officials spent the people’s money. Unfortunately, petti-minded opposition politicians like Mr. Ras Mubarak and Mr. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia may very well have seriously hurt the yeomanly contribution of the “temporarily retired” Auditor-General by unwisely suggesting that, somehow, as an eleventh-hour or lame-duck Mahama appointee, the internationally renowned and respected Mr. Domelevo was a strategically rearguard grenade-throwing thug suavely and deviously planted by the desperate megalomaniacal operatives of the National Democratic Congress to both sabotage and score cheap political points against the visionary and progressive Akufo-Addo-led government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Indeed, even as the outgoing Chairman of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah, has already pointed out, the blindly partisan likes of Mr. Ras Mubarak and an also-run former Mahama Finance Minister like Mr. Seth Terkper would do the nation and the Ghanaian taxpayer better by working hand-in-glove with Independent Special Prosecutor Martin ABK Amidu to get to the bottom of the Mahama Family’s European Airbus SE Payola Loot, than pointlessly nitpicking about how the GHȻ 16 Billion-plus COVID-19 government grant has, so far, been spent. There is absolutely no good reason for any critically thinking and progressive-minded Ghanaian citizen to believe or suppose that kleptocratic political operatives and appointees who robbed our Nurse- and Teacher-Trainees of their comparatively meager allowances, while taking home double their legally stipulated salaries and perks, really care about precisely how the COVID-19 grant money has been spent.

If they did, Messrs. Mubarak and Terkper would have since long staunchly rallied behind Attorney-General Gloria Akuffo to retrieve the Woyome Loot. After all, Messrs. Mubarak and Terkper were key players on the 2012 Mahama Presidential-Campaign Team that promised to retrieve every pesewa of the Woyome Loot. Eights years later, these National Democratic Congress’ movers-and-shakers and Mahama attack dogs have absolutely nothing to show for their efforts or, rather, the abject lack thereof.

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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD

English Department, SUNY-Nassau

Garden City, New York

July 21, 2020

E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net

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