The Agyapadie Document: Akufo-Addo’s diversionary tactics with Nkrumah's name

A diversionary tactics is any action that is intended to attract people's attention away from something which one do not want them to talk about, think about, know about, or deal with. This is exactly the strategy adopted by President Akufo-Addo in the wake of the disgraceful Agyapadie document.

The President’s recent unwarranted and unjustifiable eruption of detestation against Africa’s man of the 20^th century and the founder of Ghana is a calculated attempt to divert public attention from the stinky and shameful Agyapadie document which has become the dominant topic of discussion in recent weeks.

The document has been in circulation for a while long time, however any discussion around it has been cleverly suppressed by a section of the media and the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and their associates until recently.

In the past few weeks, a section of the media (the credible ones) have been awake and are allowed intelligent interrogation of the document. This change of event has compelled the planners of the heartless plunder of this country to comment and disassociate themselves from the document (albeit unsuccessfully).

At first, it was the Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin who tried to rubbish the document, followed by Gabby Okyere-Darko and eventually President Akufo-Addo. When the fire burn you, you will come by yourself.

It is understandable why, the owners of the document will try hard to disassociate themselves from it, because the intent and content of the document and its eventual systematic implementations are disgusting, appalling, nauseating and shameful. It shows the control and imaginations of heartless group of people who are inherently infested with greed and evil.

The Agyapadie document, it is the plan of the plunderers and evil wishful ambitions of the wicked in our society which are being systematically and intelligently implemented despite the obnoxious claims by these wicked and evil plunderers that they have no association with the document.

The Okyenhene, said it’s a total fiction fabricated to fan abhorrence against the Ofori Panin household and Okyeman. Yet, everything in this document is happening on daily basis in all sectors of our lives. Events in the Banking sector, which involves revocation of operational licences of some banks, the elevation of Osafo Maafo’s son to head the Social Security National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), closure of radio stations affiliated with the opposition.

The current commentary on the document is pricking on the conscience of the planners, therefore, president Akufo-Addo’s attack on the founder of this country Dr. Kwame Nkrumah is an attempts to change the national narratives from Agyapadie document to Nkrumah.

Whoever reads the “FORWARD” of the document will feel sick in their bone-marrow.

“To our future, made up of the present, and the unborn, for whom this “Will” of a nation is being prepared. To our foremost King, Ofori Panin, the progenies spread across this world for whom, and to whom alone, this sacred document is prepared. As the heirs of Nana Apeanin Kwaframa, Nana Kuntunkunuku, and Ofori Panin, our people were never defeated in the wars of old. We were nobody’s subjects, and yet, after 1957, we were made to live in the shadows of the descendants of people, who never defeated us in war while the Asante kingdom was uplifted to put us in the shade. In relatively recent times, the struggles and works of J.B. Danquah to restore Okyeman to its original glory were thwarted. But he fought bravely to the end”.

Page 6 said, there are two routes of entry into Ecobank which is a key target in their agenda.

“First is through SSNIT, which has a seat on the Board of Ecobank Ghana by virtue of its shareholding. The seat is occupied by the Director General of SSNIT. In Phase 2 of our agenda, Kofi Bosompem Osafo Maafo, who is a Deputy Director General of SSNIT, should be made the DG to give him the seat on the Ecobank (Ghana) Board”.

Page 31 stated that, “Our focus as a party has always been to position our members and sympathizers at strategic positions both in government and in judiciary to cover and protect our interest. This has served us well over the period. All the appointments made to the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and some of the High Courts in Ghana under our government was to promote the NPP agenda and to ensure our country never falls in the hands of the opposition NDC”,

With the recent elevation of Kofi Bosompem Osafo Maafo from the deputy Director General to the position of the Director General of SSNIT, and the controversial appointments of judges to our courts, one would wonder if indeed the Agyapadie document is a fake document, and that these unfolding events are mere coincidence.

The document emphasised the importance of the NPP to have control of the country’s electricity sector which could be achieved if it is handled better without greed from “some of the Akyem elite” (Page 3).

Relating the above to the events that unfolded in the Power Distribution Services (PDS) scandal where some group of people took control of the country’s electricity system for some months, it cannot be a coincidence. The PDS was a grand scheme orchestrated by taxonomy of people to take over the country’s electricity sector.

Moreover, page 30 of the document suggested the need to axe Francisca Oteng, the Member of Parliament of Kwabre East from parliament. It suggested that, Chairman Wontumi have been tasked to ensure that she is contested and also loses the 2024 parliamentary primaries of the party. It was therefore not surprising that a young and promising politician as Francisca Oteng decided not to contest in the party’s 2024 primaries, it is as a result of the machinations and frustrations meted out to her by the authors of the document. Well it could be a coincidental implementation of a “fake document”, but and it “coincidentally” came to pass.