Rawlings Goes Diamond-Poaching In Akufo-Addo’s Backyard

“When we allow them to win these elections, we would continue to suffer and our children will also suffer,” the Butcher-of-Dzelukope, otherwise known as Flt.-Lt. Jeremiah John Rawlings, was recently reported to be telling a faction of a deeply divided branch of his so-called National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Akyem-Akwatia, right in the traditional backyard of Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Needless to say, somebody with a healthy long-term memory capacity ought to have asked the man who slaughtered three Ghanaian Supreme Court judges, all of whom had young children, exactly whose children Mr. Rawlings was talking about. The founding-proprietor of the Provisional National Democratic Congress (P/NDC) also needed to have been rudely reminded that for most of the two protracted decades that he held Ghanaians by their scruff, with the country's institutions of higher learning firmly shuttered, by Mr. Rawlings himself, and potentially great talents, literally, let down to the dogs, Jato June 4th had all his children shipped out of the country and schooled in such citadels of “imperialism” as Britain, Switzerland and the United States. And quite recently, we even learned of Mr. Probity and Accountability's officially known eldest daughter having graduated from an American medical school.

Indeed, somebody also ought to have asked the career coup-plotter and avowed enemy of democracy, exactly when he came to the realization of the need for the P/NDC to start winning democratic elections (as opposed to “stolen” ones), rather than cavalierly and recklessly shooting his goddamned way into the Osu Castle.

And when Butcher Rawlings snarls that: “The NPP are bringing [in] a thief to take over from another thief [and also that] The NPP leaders are a bunch of thieves; they are greedy and very selfish. They have looted the national coffers and see how they are shamelessly flaunting their wealth around in the midst of humiliating conditions of majority of the people” (Ghanaweb.com 1/10/08), perhaps some levelheaded countryman needs to remind the “One-man, One-toilet Philosopher” that his plush and high-walled Ridge mansion is not exactly the same as the palatial residence of the Omanhene of Zabon Zongo.

Hey, Jerry Jato, we saw you buying yor-ke-garri on the installment plan, so why are you pretending that riding in a chauffeur-driven Pajero is tantamount to the callous imposition of grinding poverty on you by the government of the New Patriotic Party? Jerry Jato, when was the last time that you paid for petrol out of your own pocket, you shameless rabble rouser, pathological liar and scheming con-artist?!

Jerry Jato, where is the whopping sum of at least $ 20 million (Twenty-Million American Dollars) realized from your unilateral and backdoor sale of Ghana's share of the SCANCEM corporation? And just what were you doing at Akyem-Akwatia, Fiafito, but attempt to steal your greasy, arthritic and kleptocratic fingers into Ghana's diamond reserves? Jerry you are an illegal diamond-poaching smuggler! And just what did you do with all the money realized from your unilateral sale of the Nkrumah-built Ghana Industrial Holdings Corporation?

Jato Dzelukope, we know your wife used her so-called December 31st Women's Movement as an unconscionable front to clean our clocks, steal us white, steal the Nkrumah-constructed Nsawam Cannery, so just what do you mean by snarling like a Scottish pug about some professional thieves stacked among the top-echelons of the ruling New Patriotic Party? Jerry Jato, you ought to be serving a thousand life-sentences at Nsawam, so shut your greasy lips up!

Hey, Jato June 4th, we know you did not grow up in the disciplinary presence of a loving father, thus your abject lack of good breeding; but does such reparable lack also mean that you should completely lack refined manners badly enough to also badmouth your intellectual and political superiors in their own backyard?

Apio Jato, tell us, exactly what do you mean by these vacuous remarks: “We in the NDC are not like them. We have minds, we have a heart [sic], we have compassion, we have conscience and above all[,] we have respect for God”?

Apio, what “respect” did you have for God, when you fatally sicced your human attack dogs on a poor Ghanaian commercial motorist who accidentally ran into your convoy on the Accra-Tema Motorway? Apio Jerry, do you realize the fact that this Motorway, to whose necessary improvement you contributed absolutely nothing, was constructed when you were scarcely a teenager? And also, the fact that all you have done has been to convert it into a callous extension of Bundase and the Teshie Military Range?

Jerry, let me get frontal with you here: you have no heart, you have no mind, you have no conscience, you have no compassion. After all, what crime did Air-Vice Marshall Yaw Boakye commit against you? Jerry, did my uncle, Yaw Boakye, ever use any of the Ghanaian taxpayer-owned Air Force jets to play mock war games with any of his children?

Apio, Jerry Jato: How many mansions do you own? Mr. Probity and Accountability, why don't you open up your bank accounts – both offshore and onshore – for the scrutiny of our parliamentary vetting committee and shame your enemies?

Apio, Fiafito, Jato: would you, indeed, have voted for Alan Cash and logically dissolved your scamming rag-tag gang of cheerleading thugs of the so-called Provisional National Democratic Congress (P/NDC), if Alan Cash had clinched the presidential candidacy of the New Patriotic Party? Are you for real, Jerry?

Apio Dzelukope: I think you are a bit clinically off your rockers, and I graciously suggest that you see your shrink (I know you have one) immediately, before you foolishly start entertaining dangerous ideas about turning Ghana into a copycat Kenya, come Election 2008 and your certain defeat and political demise; for this time around, Apio, Ghanaians are not likely to put up with your nihilistic and quixotic scam-artistry, for we are fully prepared to permanently freeze you in your tracks, if so provoked.

Jerry Jato, don't fool yourself this time around; you'd be better off taking up the relatively far more productive hobby of shallot farming at Dzelukope, your P/NDC Mafia headquarters. Believe me; I darn well know what I'm taking about!

*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English, Journalism and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City. He is the author of “Dr. J. B. Danquah: Architect of Modern Ghana” (iUniverse.com, 2005). E-mail: okoampaahoofe@aol.com.

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