Stanley Dogbe Celebrated the “Mysterious” Death of President Mills with Mahama’s Speech

It is rather amazing that the John “I Have No Classmates in Ghana” Dramani Mahama Presidential Communications Director who is widely known and credited with having written the self-incriminating speech in which an unconscionable extant Vice-President Mahama publicly and euphorically celebrated the seismic and the sudden death of an incumbent President John Evans Atta-Mills, namely, Mr. Stanislav Xoese Dogbe, would so shamelessly muster the chutzpah by joining the politically charlatanic likes of Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe and “Lt-Col” Johnson “The Mosquito” Asiedu-Nketia to roundly and self-righteously condemn the 2024 Presidential Running-Mate of Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia, to wit, Dr. Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, for daring to intemperately but, nevertheless, factually and truthfully suggest that with the unarguable exception of the globally immortalized President Kwame Nkrumah, no other postcolonial Ghanaian leader has accomplished more national-development projects for our beloved Sovereign Democratic Republic of Ghana than Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Ghana’s current leader and his ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) – (See “Napo's apology is for Kufuor, not Kwame Nkrumah — Stan Dogbe” Modernghana.com 7/12/24).

For the benefit of those of our readers who may not have either heard of or read what the recently resigned New Patriotic Party’s Member of Parliament for Manhyia-South Constituency, in the Asante regional capital of Kumasi, is being so caustically accused of, this is what the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Medical School graduate is widely alleged and quoted to have said during his official inaugural ceremony as the 2024 Vice-Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, among a legion of other statements and comments, at Kumasi’s Jubilee Park: “We’ve not had any President that has helped Ghana like Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. If you take your Kwame Nkrumah, no one has become President who has protected Ghana and moved it forward like Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.” We are also reliably informed by the writer of the afore-referenced news story, Mr. Isaac Donkor Distinguished, that after Dr. Opoku-Prempeh had made the foregoing remark, the Pakyi Number Two native of the suburban Kumasi metropolis, proceeded to fulsomely and effusively laud Nana Akufo-Addo’s supposedly unrivaled impact on Ghana’s education, healthcare, economy and infrastructural system.

Clearly and expectedly, the former Education and Energy Minister had made the unarguably relevant and most significant exception vis-à-vis the unrivaled and the pioneering leadership caliber, stature and the achievements of President Nkrumah, except, of course, for the fact of the downright unnecessary and strategically inadvisable tone of morally revolting contempt that bracketed the aforementioned part of the speaker’s delivery vis-à-vis the globally recognized giant status of the Nzema-Nkroful native from Ghana’s Western Region which, not surprisingly, was swiftly seized upon by Dr. Opoku-Prempeh’s enemies and detractors to draw blood from the apparently vaulting politically ambitious alumnus of Prempeh College, the same alma-mater attended by Yours Truly nearly a decade before.

About the one indelibly damning problem here is the scandalous inability of the 2024 Mahamudu Bawumia Presidential Campaign Team operatives and communications specialists and strategists to quickly spring into action by literally stepping up to the plate, in American baseball parlance, and doing the requisite and direly necessary damage control as a means of opportunely heading off this striking case of Greco-Roman Harmatia or Achilles Heel that could very well land the comfortably domesticated, acclimatized and civilized Elephant “back into the bush,” once again, and for quite a perennial while, in the very memorable but scarcely palatable words of “The Pesky Mosquito,” that is, the globally infamous recent superannuated graduate of the Senior-Staff College of the Ghana Armed Forces, who also presently doubles as the “junta-elected” National Chairman of the Rawlings-founded National Democratic Congress.

Now, what the “Circumstantial Murder Suspect” of 32-year-old Mr. Samuel Nuamah, at the time of his negligent homicidal death, a Ghanaian Times’ press attaché to the Mahama Jubilee House, ought to worry himself about is not the question of whether Candidate Opoku-Prempeh – aka Napo – needs to direct his apology or apology letter to his granduncle, former President John Agyekum-Kufuor, instead of President Nkrumah or the adherents of the political ideology or tenets of Ghana’s first postcolonial leader and his relatives and clansmen and women. At least the last time that I checked, Stanley Xoese Dogbe, who also thought that brutally mauling Mr. Yahyah Kwamoah, the Radio Ghana broadcast journalist, was Cosa Nostra, or a perfectly and a decidedly private affair of his own, had not acquired Exclusive Rights to the name and the memory of President Nkrumah; neither had the Trokosi Nationalist Mafia Capo been ceded any such rights by the Nkrumah Family or Clan.

Rather, what the burly bully and veritable troglodyte ought to be doing presently is to be explaining to Ghanaian citizens and voters why, a dozen years post the apparent brutal assassination of President Atta-Mills, the author of the Mahama speech that savagely and orgiastically celebrated the early morning death of the former Rawlings-coronated Arch-Lieutenant, whom Speaker Alban SK Bagbin once described as the “de-facto President of the Mahama government,” has yet to let on to Ghanaians his motive for curiously and bizarrely concluding that the downright suspicious and violent death of Prof. Mills, as the Ekumfi-Narkwa native, from the Central Region, was also affectionately called, was the veritable act of an “Inscrutably shrewd Divine Providence,” meant to ceremoniously mark the epochal emergence of Ghana’s first postcolonial-born leader. You see, starkly naked men like Stanley Xoese Dogbe must learn not to joke about their scantily dressed or attired neighbors. A word to the arrant fool….

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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
SUNY-Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York
July 24, 2024
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