Your behaviour is shameful, Mr Felix Ofosu Kwakye

As he hurtles around in a gloriously glittering manner, savouring the euphoria surrounding his successes, triumphs and elegance, Mr Felix Ofosu Kwakye’s youthful errant ways appear to have obfuscated his sense of morality that he can no longer stay and sleep at home in the warm embrace and attachment of his wife. Needless to say, if amorous affairs with young ladies and vicious demolishing of carefully-nurtured relationships are no veritable acts of immorality and injustice of the most heinous order, then what exactly explicates the behaviour of Felix in the video making social media sun and stars today?

It is rather curious that now that leaders and politicians of the world are confronted with the covid-19 pandemic which wracks their nights with nightmarish hallucinations, all that some Ghanaian politicians care about is spending time with women in their rooms, callously taking advantage of them. Oh Ama Ghana! Elsewhere, politicians are fashioning out appropriate policies to help ease the plight of their people in these challenging times of the coronavirus – prudently and graciously preventing the obnoxious tendency of people eking out a living. It is easier for politicians in our part of the world to sometimes live in an unpardonably reckless manner, but fail to painstakingly and critically examine the underlying causes of the unfavourable conditions we are plagued with, let alone promptly seeking the requisite remedies through the implementation of policies.

At any rate, what made Felix launch untrammelled vituperative attacks on Professor Gyampo last year, referring to his act as “disgustingly shameful”, one could easily call it morality. As some Ghanaians poignantly and sneeringly observe, it is rather quixotic that someone who really gave it to the professor could turn around and shoot himself in the foot in such apocalyptic proportions. In the professor’s case, Felix proved himself to be grossly capable of squarely facing and weathering such a temptation: cavalierly presume to be incandescently capable of withstanding any act that will drag the reputation of our politicians through the proverbial mud. Hence, I do not see any moral justification of Felix flexing any muscles of morality attached to his fine body.

Predictably, Mr Ofosu Kwakye (and/or friends, his secretary?) has belligerently released “the fact of the matter concerning the video (Felix’s video) is that … the lady is an NDC girl who gave Felix a space at their compound to keep some of his campaign items in their spacious room - T-shirts and clothes he has purchased for widows in his constituency”. Obviously, this is not the vintage response of a serious politician who intends to be a political juggernaut in Ghana in the near future. This denudes and erodes the political respect some of us possessed in his honour. Such a culpable dereliction eerily and luridly verges on downright ineptitude. The incident occurred last year? So what? It still dents Felix’s political image. He now has a herculean obligation, if not task, of convincing people that he will not be quizzically parading as a married man who takes delight in taking untoward and execrable advantage of unmarried ladies, especially in their own rooms.

If the NDC is serious about making us believe the mendacity and chicanery of the NPP’s hackneyed rhetoric of “the alternative is scary”, their members should live above reproach. Merely canvassing for votes, without exhibiting a worthy-of-emulation behaviour is only likely to create a chaotic influx of morally bankrupt, political hoodlums and popinjays in the political landscape of the NDC in particular, and Ghana in general. Of course, theoretically, healthy, it is for Felix and co to incessantly dream about the sacrosanct need to live morally-upright lives, especially now that December 7 is just around the corner.

Kwabena Aboagye-Gyan

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