Hear ye me clear and loud – Hon. Kennedy Agyapong

Still pursuing my efforts to reform Kennedy Agyapong to make him an electable flag bearer of NPP to ultimately become the president of Ghana in the possible near future.

In his current temperamentally insulting quick temper, reacting to people and issues without giving himself a minute to think things over, I see him unfit to lead Ghana hence my determination to help him through advice and guidance to make him a much better presidential material.

Being super rich is never an indication of one being overly wise, therefore must have the absolute right to treat poor and needy persons with disdain. No and no!

Is it not said, “Old age is not an indication of wisdom” as “Grey hair is not a repository of wisdom”? This tells us that a younger person can occasionally be wiser than an old person.

There are occasions where a poor person has proved themselves wiser than a rich person. Don’t you believe that o, our future Ghana president, Kennedy Agyapong?

Listen to the below true story that happened in Kumawu decades ago.

I heard that one day, one Nana Mensah, an uncle to Mr Bannor, decided to pay Mr Bannor a visit at his house when he had come from Kumasi, his place of permanent residence, to Kumawu, his place of birth. Their houses are about three hundred metres apart.

When he called at Mr Bannor’s house, he met some rich men from Kumawu, although many of them resident outside the town, already gathered in a meeting deliberating over a specific issue in search of a solution.

Messrs Kwame Kodua, Kumi, Kwaanto and some others were present. Upon sighting the team, Nana Mensah greeted them and decided to return to his house, however, they requested him to join them.

During the deliberation, Nana Mensah stood up to contribute towards the search for a solution to the issue under discussion. Surprisingly however, Mr Bannor was alleged to have shouted at him to sit down, saying, “When rich people are talking, you, a poor man, also wants to talk. What do you know? Sit down, he ordered.

Some of the rich men castigated Mr Bannor for his disrespectful treatment of Nana Mensah. They pleaded with Nana Mensah, then far older than each of them, to proceed with his contribution.

Once the old man had completed his contribution, all of them started saying, yes, this is the best solution and exactly what we are looking for.

His suggestion was what was finally adopted, although Nana Mensah being far a million times poorer a person materially and financially than any of them present.

All those in the meeting have now transited into the unknown world to return no more, thus, they have gone to meet their Maker God.

Does this not tell us an instance where a poor person proved himself wiser than some rich men?

Does this true story mean anything to Kennedy?

You can in a thousand years over not be a good presidential material if you have deep aversion to respecting poor people, looking down upon them and treating them with complete disdain, regardless of how super rich you are.

You cannot be a good presidential material if you cannot continue to keep secret conversations confided in you but rather use them to weaken and cow those that confided such things in you.

By such constant threats to silence people, daring them to talk and you will expose their secrets, have you not become a blackmailer equally as that notorious alleged Ghanaian extortionist investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas?

Unless Kennedy Agyapong quits his loose talk, shedding that tainted character of his, similarly as the snake sheds its skin to regrow a new one, I am afraid, any aspirations of his to become the future president of Ghana will merely be a mirage.

No sensible person would like to have a loose cannon as president of Ghana.

Kennedy, you have great ideas, ability, and capability to be a better NPP flag bearer and president of Ghana but your proneness to loose talk and propensity to threatening people with public revelation of their secrets confided in you or you are aware of, if they dared you, is your greatest drawback needing fixing.

Failing to detach or extricate yourself from your vituperations and completely unprovoked attacks on your political rivals, count the proud, audacious, and no-nonsense son of Kumawu/Asiampa soil out of your political supporters; although I am only one person, be mindful that the game of politics and elections is played by numbers where every number counts and it is essential.

In the United Kingdom, their largest supermarket, TESCO, has as its motto, “Every little count”.

The writer will only support serious persons of integrity, vision, ability, and capability to govern, to be elected the president of Ghana.

Is there any difference between former Net2 TV host Kofi Annan’s insults on Dr Bawumia that occasioned his immediate dismissal by Kennedy and Kennedy’s own seeming attacks on Dr Bawumia and other NPP folks like Kwame Baffoe aka Abronye? No, not much difference, if any at all.

I am being candid with Kennedy, and he had better understand to make himself lovable and serious a candidate to be supported.

The writer will not be like many of his supporters who are failing, or are scared, to correct him to avoid his attacks on them.

His closest supporters and friends will stand equally blameable if they fail to point out his shortcomings as an aspiring Ghana president to him. This is because an adage creditably holds it that “it does not belong to he who is leading to redirect their steps” thus, he who is cutting the lane will not know when and where it is gone crooked”. The ability to point out the crookedness of the lane belongs to he who is following, isn’t it?

If answered in the affirmative, then it belongs to the friends and supporters of Kennedy to put him to the right winnable path to becoming president of Ghana by telling him to his face his detracting mistakes.

“A word to the wise is sufficient” and “Speech is silver, silence is golden”.