How I Paid The Price For Correcting The NPP: Why They Deserve No Sympathy

In every society, discipline is considered a foundation for progress. We are taught that when you spare the rod, you spoil the child, and that correction is an act of love, not hostility. Those who point out wrongdoings to individuals, institutions, or governments do so because they desire improvement.

Unfortunately, this principle has never applied to the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Instead of embracing constructive criticism, the party treated correction as an attack and responded with hostility. Having lived in Europe for decades, I have observed how governance works in Belgium and how accountability, transparency, and discipline shape national development.

Naturally, I compared these standards with the governance class of the Akufo‑Addo and Bawumia administration. My attempts to highlight their shortcomings and offer guidance were met with anger, insults, and coordinated attacks. The NPP was more committed to corruption, state capture, and personal enrichment than to solving the pressing needs of Ghanaians. In their eyes, anyone who exposed their failures became an enemy.

As a columnist on ModernGhana News and GhanaWeb, I experienced unprecedented levels of abuse. I became one of the most insulted writers on both platforms, not because I lied, but because I refused to glorify corruption, money laundering, and economic mismanagement. The most painful part was the tribal and party‑aligned columnists who accused me of being on the NDC payroll simply because I refused to support incompetence.

To them, tribal loyalty mattered more than national interest, but patriotism is not tribalism. You do not need to belong to a political party to see when a government is failing. Supporting a destructive administration simply because the leader comes from your tribe is not loyalty; it is ignorance and wickedness. This is the lesson the NPP never understood.

I watched the NPP sinking politically, yet they still had an opportunity to show Ghanaians that they cared. Akufo‑Addo cut sods across the country for projects that never began or were nearly completed. With no major achievements convincing voters, I knew their best chance was to complete the abandoned NDC projects.

So, on February 2, 2020, I wrote an article titled “A Humble Request From The Minister Of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah", urging the government to continue those projects. Instead of appreciating the advice, they responded with insults and attacks. Every attempt I made to help the NPP government better was rejected. They saw correction as sabotage, since there are always tribal folks and state-sponsored media supporting them.

One NPP politician even contacted me privately, offering money to stop writing about Akufo‑Addo’s corruption. She was surprised to hear from me that I had an article about her submitted for publication, but because I like her, I refused to publish that article. I refused the bribe and kept my integrity.

Two weeks later, after I continued exposing the government’s wrongdoing, she contacted me again, disappointed that I did not “listen to her.” That was the last time I heard from her. Not long after, GhanaWeb stopped publishing my articles, only for it to later emerge that the platform had fallen under NPP influence, with Bawumia reportedly having a stake.

So why should I pity the NPP? I do not pity the NPP because they consciously chose arrogance over accountability, propaganda over truth, and corruption over national progress. They destroyed institutions, bankrupted the economy, and weaponised tribalism to silence critics. They punished those who tried to help them and rewarded those who supported their failures, widespread corruption, and “Agyapadie policy".

A party that rejects correction cannot grow; a government that hates accountability cannot succeed; and leaders who silence truth cannot earn sympathy. Ghanaians deserve a future built on honesty, discipline, and national interest, not on intimidation, bribery, and propaganda. The NPP had every opportunity to govern responsibly, but they chose a path that led to their own downfall.

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