Did Ahwoi, Mahama and Naana Opoku-Agyemang Kill Rawlings?

He is not a credible clergyman, so one should not take the so-called prophecies of Bishop Isaac Owusu-Bempah with the sort of seriousness that they do not half deserve. They are all a sheer matter of clever speculations (See “Rawlings’ Death Not Natural – Bishop Owusu-Bempah” 3News.com / Ghanaweb.com 11/24/20). In the leadup to the 2020 US Presidential Election, the Head Pastor of the Glorious Word Power Ministries “prophesied” that President Donald John Trump had been preordained and predestined to rule the United States of America for two consecutive electoral terms of 8 years. And then just what happened? I mean, what kind of God or Divine Providence does Bishop Bempah serve who would will or predetermine that a virulently implacable neo-Nazi racist and fascist rabble-rouser should divisively preside over a globally recognized and acclaimed beacon of democracy and role model like the United States?

I have already observed that the trio-authorship of Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi’s patently toxic anti-Rawlings exposé, titled “Working with Rawlings,” may very well have complicated any stress-related health issues that the Founding-Father of Ghana’s main opposition political party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), may have had in the wake of his mother’s passing at the generously blessed age of 101 years old and hastened the downward spiral of his health and precipitous demise. And, as, indeed, all of you regular readers of my columns know, I am no professionally trained prophecy specialist in the retail market of Death Forecasting. It is also quite obvious that the three architects and/or alleged putative masterminds behind the abrupt and shocking demise of Chairman Rawlings, whose dancing or “jubilating hearts” Bishop Bempah reportedly claims to have seen in his dream, are inescapably none other than the metaphorical or symbolical hearts of Candidates John “Akonfem-Kanazoe” Dramani Mahama and Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang and, of course, the principal and lead author of the “Working with Rawlings” memoir, to wit, Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi, unarguably the closest and most intimate political associate and confidant of the late Mr. Jerry John Rawlings.

So, playing speculative hocus-pocus game of faux prophecy with the commonsensically obvious could not be more comical. Bishop Bempah should let his self-proclaimed bosom friend and fellow prophet, Archbishop Duncan Williams, a widely alleged Donald Trump confidant, help him to promptly get in touch with prime globally recognized comedy acts like Messrs. Trevor Noah, Conan O’Brien and Bill Maher to secure his proverbial 15 Minutes of Fame, a la Andy Warhol, on the heavily patronized nightly television shows of these laugh-doctors. If he is able to acquit himself creditably – and I am quite certain that Bishop Bempah would be able to do himself and the rest of us proud by pulling a rabbit or two out of his Trumpian bag of comical tricks – he could even get an international sidekick gig on one of these shows.

The fact of the matter is that while, indeed, his “prophecy” may be coincidentally accurate vis-à-vis the apparently foul-laced death of the former Flight-Lieutenant of the Ghana Airforce, nevertheless, the Head Pastor of the Glorious Word Power Ministries Church has absolutely no credibility and moral authority here whatsoever. I mean, hadn’t Bishop Owusu-Bempah also “prophesied” the epochal passing of Ghana’s Chief Imam, namely, Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu by the close of 2019? And then just what happened? But, of course, it can scarcely be gainsaid that some potently vicious “spiritual powers” and/or “principalities” are fervidly working in our national political circles against the godly will, desires, aspirations and intentions of the overwhelming majority of the Ghanaian electorate.

Otherwise, why is the man who so smugly and light-heartedly claimed that it was Divine Providence, in His inscrutable wisdom, who had deemed it opportune to take out the then-President John Evans Atta-Mills, so that the Little Dramani could be promptly and auspiciously named by God as the first post-independence-born Ghanaian leader, now, all of a sudden, telling Ghanaians, rather bizarrely that: “I did not kill President Mills”? I mean, if he was/is convinced that it was Divine Providence, in His inscrutable wisdom, who had deemed it opportune and auspicious to knock the living daylights out of his former immediate boss to make way for a new generation of Ghanaian leader and leadership, why now tell Ghanaians that, after all, “I did not kill President Mills”? The obvious implication here, of course, is that somebody else must have done it. And then to be so forcefully prompted to furtively assert that “I did not kill President Mills.” That is the real killer here, of course! We still need some answers here, Little Dramani.

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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD

English Department, SUNY-Nassau

Garden City, New York

November 24, 2020

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