Facts To Remember: Kojo Oppong Nkrumah Defends The Electoral Crimes Of Jean Mensa
There is a reason why Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Minister of Information, has turned into a spider, hiding and periodically showing up to inform Ghanaians that he is still alive. Due to his inability to carry out his duties with honesty, empathy, and conscience, Oppong Nkrumah can be regarded as Ghana's worst information minister in history. Among the many terrible things, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah did to let Ghanaians down was to defend Jean Mensa's election manipulation in favor of Akufo Addo.
To advance to a more senior position in the future, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is acting as though he is not a member of this corrupt, incompetent, destructive, and shameful government. He has a covert ambition to become president in the future. Still, Ghanaians must never be duped again because they allowed Akufo Addo’s deception to lead Ghana to economic, business, and investment ruins, due to widespread corruption and ineptitude. In my opinion, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah is worse than the president.
The dishonest remarks made by Jean Mensa, a skilled criminal who would do everything to prevent Ghanaians knowing her immoral behavior.
Since Kojo Oppon Nkrumah used the Agyapadie book to conceal his activities in favor of a select few, most notably the Akyim Mafia, I have nothing to say to praise him as a good politician. His actions have had a disastrous effect, causing the economy, businesses, and investments to collapse. Oppong Nkrumah criticized Kwabena Frimpong Boateng's report on illicit mining because it affected his government, so he is also responsible for the catastrophe that has hit the agricultural industry.
After altering the results several times, Jean Mensa released the 2020 Ghanaian presidential election results with serious mistakes. Mensa clarified that the Techiman South Constituency was under dispute, but the ruling was announced without findings. Disgruntled Ghanaians called on Jean Mensa to take responsibility and come to the witness box. Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, the Chief Justice at the time, protected her and stopped her from giving Ghanaians an explanation without consequence.
Ghanaians were shocked by the Information Minister's claim that "Jean Mensa can’t be compelled to testify before the court." Following Kojo Oppong Nkrumah's statement, no one can refute my accusation that the Minister of Information is a politician who not only supported and aided his government's criminalities and other wrongdoings to its failure but also bears unaccountable responsibility for the economic catastrophe and the staggering public debt of GHC 761 million without accountability.
As a staunch supporter of Akufo Addo's incompetence, dishonesty, and corruption, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah now feels degraded because he believes that he has failed Ghanaians. Why is this Information Minister acting as though he is dead while, in reality, he is still alive? After all, he was the one who was ensuring daily press coverage for his ministry. If Mahama had done even a small fraction of the damage that Akufo Addo has done to Ghana, his opponents would have demanded his head on a silver platter.
Ghanaians should have protested to remove Jean Mensa from office after she rigged the 2020 election and refused to stand in the witness box. Ghana wouldn't be in this predicament if that action had been carried out with blood, sweat, and tears. Jean Mensa has been responsible for the artificial poverty in Ghana, and the suffering that didn’t spare the pensioners. She has survived all her crimes, including the confession of Kennedy Agyapong, and Hopeson Adorye over the tactics the NPP used to rig the 2020 election.
Many ignorant Ghanaians did little to stop her ongoing election crimes and manipulations because they believed that her crimes solely impacted the NDC. Therefore, Jean Mensa believes that Ghanaians, including the opposition NDC, are weak. Ghanaians should be aware of how electoral biometric equipments were stolen from her office without any consequences and, more significantly, how, despite being apprehended by the NDC, she continues to move voter names from the register to unidentified locations.
As mentioned in my publications, Jean Mensa's affiliation with the NPP party dates back to the time of former Ghanaian leader, John Kufuor. During the Kufuor’s government, her husband served as the CEO of the Volta Aluminum Company (VALCO). Therefore, Ghanaians should realize that Jean Mensa doesn't care how often she is caught cheating against the NDC or Ghanaians. She will continue to look for new ways to rig the elections in favor of the NPP even if she accepts and apologizes.
However, not this time, as her criminal activities, which were backed by numerous NPP politicians such as Akufo Addo, Mahamudu Bawumia, Salam Mustapha, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Bryan Acheampong, and others, have caused the country's economy, businesses, and investments to be destroyed, the environment to deteriorate, illegal mining to pollute the environment, and pensioners to be mistreated to the point of death. Jean Mensa will witness a different Ghana when the 2024 election is rigged.
Jean Mensa is a woman who takes pleasure in being called obstinate, rude, and arrogant; however, every man has a heart that will burst if he can no longer bear it. Therefore, if she wishes to live in peace, she must not even consider tampering with the election on December 7. Even one of the soldiers who have been carrying her bags as slaves, will pull a gun and shoot her head because their families are suffering too. Finally, like Akufo Addo, Ghanaians should view Kojo Oppong Nkrumah as more criminal than the president.
Belgian‑Ghanaian journalist Joel Savage writes the column “A Mixture of Periodicals.” A former member of the Flemish Journalists Association, he has contributed to the Weekly Spectator, Ghanaian Times, Daily Graphic and The Mirror.
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