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Mahama the Liar Never Retrieved Woyome’s Loot, You Can’t Trust Him

Feature Article John Mahama, Alfred Agbesi Woyome and  late President John Evans Atta-Mills
WED, 09 OCT 2024
John Mahama, Alfred Agbesi Woyome and late President John Evans Atta-Mills

I would be damned if I failed to remind Ghanaian voters and citizens that the Serial and the Dynastic Presidential Candidate of the present main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. John “I Have No Classmates in Ghana” Dramani Mahama, is the greatest liar among the five leaders, so far, of Fourth-Republican Ghana. His promises are not worth either the breath or the newsprint and computer screen on which they are written and posted or published.

You see, it takes just a little while before the blood-dripping lies of any political scam-artist catches up with them, as Americans hereabouts are wont to say. Thus, when the Bole-Bamboi native from the Akufo-Addo-created Savannah Region promises that in the highly unlikely event of him being returned to Jubilee House, he intends to launch what he cynically terms as an “Operation-Retrieve-All-Loot” campaign that would be aimed at the recovery of all taxpayer monies extorted by some key operatives of the lame-duck Akufo-Addo-led government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), he cannot absolutely in any way be taken seriously - (See “My focus is to retrieve stolen monies, not vindictiveness - Mahama” MyXYZ Online 10/1/24).

His promises are not worth a pesewa, much less a cedi, because in the runup to the 2012 Presidential Election, the Johnson “The Mosquito” Asiedu-Nketia-coronated career Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress also promised Ghanaian citizens and voters that he intended to retrieve each and every penny or pesewa extorted from our National Treasury by Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome, in what globally infamously became known as the GHȻ51.2 million Woyome Mega-Heist, and to ensure that every dime of this loot was put to use for the greater good in the form of the material development of the country.

Well, twelve years later, as Mr. Martin ABK Amidu recently told a standing-room-only audience on the Tamale Campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS), during the Harmattan School Season early this year, the Woyome Loot had actually been criminally and deliberately extorted by a newly elected President John Evans Atta-Mills, late, and his very first Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, to wit, Mrs. Betty Mould-Iddrisu, with the collusive and the collaborative complicity of the entire top leadership of the National Democratic Congress, including an extant Vice-President John “European Airbus Payola” Dramani Mahama.

The thoroughgoing corrupt architect of the Looting Brigade that was the All-Northern-Composed Board-of-Directors of the globally infamous Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) Gravy Train, is a pathologically vindictive kleptomaniacal and kleptocratic career politician who has been preaching vengeance and the wanton application of state-sponsored violence over the past 8 years, together with his bootlicking Presidential Running-Mate, namely, Candidate Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman, and cannot be trusted with the fate and the destiny of the 35-million Ghanaian citizens that he once cautioned would be treading on live coal or on dangerous territory, if any of them cavalierly presumed that they could rampantly and/riotously criticize the abjectly dismal performance of the former “Shit-Bomber” by recklessly exercising their inalienable constitutional right to free speech.

Mr. Amidu, the Atta-Mills-fired former substantive Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, has himself written extensively about attempts by a then-Interim President Mahama to have the Frafra native, from the Upper-East Region, permanently silenced for fear of Mr. Amidu’s spilling the beans, as it were, about the Woyome Loot, presumably. And then not very long ago, for example, while on the electioneering-campaign trail, the twice-defeated, former one-term President proudly declared in the Akufo-Addo-trimmed Volta Region that when it came to the politically strategic application of violence to intimidate Ghanaian citizens, the Jeremiah “Jerry” John Rawlings-founded National Democratic Congress had absolutely no match or rival in postcolonial Ghana. Of course, we all witnessed some of the bitter taste of the Mahama-brewed violence with the Azorka Boys at Talensi, in the Upper-East Region, Akyem-Akwatia and Kwabeng and the Amenfi area of the former Western Region in 2015 and in the runup to the 2016 General Election.

And then just recently also, true to his character, the former Rawlings-appointed Communications Minister desperately and indiscriminately resorted to lobbing verbal obscenities at some of his most formidable political opponents, including Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia, the Walewale native from the Akufo-Addo-created North-East Region, who is widely presumed to be the Next President of our beloved Sovereign Democratic Republic of Ghana. On the latter count, it also significantly bears recalling that in the runup to the December 2016 General Election, a then-Incumbent President Mahama had the chutzpah to tell the very Ghanaian citizens and voters who had offered him their sacred mandate that he had only three peers or “classmates” in the entire country, namely, the late former President Rawlings, former President Agyekum-Kufuor, and the late President Atta-Mills.

You see, the person that we are talking about here is a congenital liar and a veritable dictator of the Trumpian breed in mufti or civilian clothes or habit. He also lies through his teeth when Candidate Mahama promises to ensure the security and the professional independence of the members of Ghana’s judicial establishment, when the globally infamous “Shit-Bomber” also already sports the at once unenviable and the indelibly inglorious track record of fiendishly using privately hired journalists, falsely parading as first-rate criminal investigators, to literally railroad members of the bench whom Candidate Mahama considers to be his mortal enemies.

Not very long ago, for example, a seismically defeated Candidate Mahama was publicly and virulently threatening to remove Retired Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah from the Supreme Bench, because he blamed the latter for his massive and forensically convincing loss of his patently frivolous DOA - Dead-On-Arrival - 2020 Presidential-Election Petition on the Nyinahin native from the Asante Region. Incidentally, Nyinahin is also the location of the humongous bauxite deposits that an outgoing and democratically defeated President Mahama had secretly granted in a no-bid contract to his multimillionaire half-brother and mining company proprietor Mr. Ibrahim Mahama, which was summarily abrogated by the then newly elected President Akufo-Addo.

In short, Candidate Mahama woefully lacks the kind of emotional and psychological poise, appeal and maturity required for the effective handling of the very adult and intellectually taxing job of the highest elected office of the land. And by the way, who has so soon and so scandalously forgotten the Mahama-sponsored media goons nicknamed the Montie Three or the Montie Trio, who once threatened to sexually violate Retired Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, and to have some of her Supreme Bench Associates perceived to be hostile towards the top leadership of the National Democratic Congress criminally and summarily executed and dismembered?

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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
SUNY-Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York
Oct. 2, 2024
E-mail: [email protected]

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