Ablakwa Is a Misogynistic Scofflaw Whose Appeal Must Be Denied

I have followed the protracted attempt by the National Democratic Congress’ Member of Parliament for North-Tongu Constituency, in the Akufo-Addo-trimmed Volta Region, Mr. Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa, to both seriously undermine the integrity of the twice-elected Akufo-Addo-led government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), as well as effectively scuttle the apparently stalled construction of the National Cathedral, and can only conclude without any qualms that the Mahama and the Atta-Mills goon deserves every bit of legal and judicial pushback that Mr. Pimpled Face has been receiving from the irreparably defamed and caricatured Secretary to the Board-of-Trustee of the National Cathedral, the Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng, who Mr. Ablakwa has virulently and incessantly accused of being a shady character who maintains a double identity, one of which goes by the name of Mr. Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.

Now, having been boldly confronted with the bitter taste of his own criminally brewed toxin of personality defamation and character assassination, the man who, together with Dr. Edward Kofi Omane-Boamah, the present Communications Director and former Mahama-appointed Communications Minister of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and the staunch and active backing of then-President John Evans Atta-Mills, late, literally thumbed his nose at the Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood-presided Supreme Court of Ghana, in the Matter of Okudzeto-Ablakwa and Omane-Boamah Versus Obetsebi-Lamptey, by flatly refusing to promptly return legitimately acquired landed and real-estate properties belonging to the late Mr. Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, the former National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, would now have civically responsible Ghanaian citizens and voters believe that, somehow, Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkonoo, has absolutely no inalienable mandate or constitutional right to determine the composition of the panel of judicators hearing Rev. Kusi Boateng’s defamation suit and criminal contempt against this sworn Akufo-Addo detractor and would-be New Patriotic Party demolition-squad foreman (See “Ablakwa’s Lawyers Accuse CJ of Bias in Reconstitution of Panel in Case Filed by Kusi Boateng” Modernghana.com 6/25/24).

As of this writing, Mr. Ablakwa’s bogus appeal against his defamatory conduct against Rev. Kusi Boateng had been adjourned for another day or 24 hours – no pun intended here, of course – by a second court that had decided to re-hear the plaintiff’s defamation suit which, we learn, had been rather curiously and scandalously dismissed by a judge apparently sympathetic to the morally and the personally corrosive political cause of the National Democratic Congress.

And by the way, I did not even bother to find out the outcome of Mr. Ablakwa’s decidedly comical appeal to have the Kusi Boateng suit dismissed for a second time, because that is not the main focus and the thrust of the present column, which is to definitively establish the fact that with Mr. Ablakwa and the rest of the hoodlum pack of National Democratic Congress’ goons, snipers and rascals, it is never about the search for justice, as we all recently witnessed in the Mahama Ambulance Fraud Case, in which the main and the sole objective of the lawyers for the Prime Suspect or the First Accused, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, who also happens to be the Johnson Asiedu-Nketia-appointed NDC’s Parliamentary Minority Leader, was to use frivolous legal technicalities to impugn the judicial integrity of this otherwise open-and-shut case, as Americans are wont to say, rather than morally and civically accept the fact that not only had consequential financial loss been caused by the criminal suspects to the State but, even more significantly, a veritable act of genocide resulting in the deaths of hundred of thousands of Ghanaian citizens, in what clearly amounted to “Negligent Homicide,” may very well have been caused the nation.

In the Kusi Boateng defamation appeal case, all that the Ablakwa lawyers, led by Mr. Thaddeus Sory, desired to prove was their deafeningly subtextual conviction that like her fellow female predecessor and Ghana’s longest-serving Chief Justice, Mrs. Georgina Theodora Wood, presently retired, Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkonoo had absolutely no right, whatsoever, to presume to wield any statutory authority over the Atta-Mills-mentored criminal scofflaw likes of the North-Tongu hip-shooting National Democratic Congress’ legislator.

In his appeal against the clearly politically motivated dismissal of his defamation suit against Mr. Ablakwa, the long-suffering Rev. Kusi Boateng’s lawyers had pointed to a social media video clip on which a lunatically narcissistic Mr. Ablakwa was seen thumbing his nose at the service of a defamation summons against the pigheaded Trokosi Nationalist Platoon Commander. As well, the plaintiff’s lawyers pointed out that the accusation of judicial panel-reconstitution bias against Chief Justice Torkornoo was wholly based on hearsay and the forensically inadmissible evidence of a single passionately pro-NDC newspaper publication. The obvious implication here, of course, was that Teflon-coated political goons and snipers like Mr. Ablakwa were way over and above the statutory edicts of the land. Well, we can only hope to wait and see.

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