Ramon On The Loose

RAMON OSEI AKOTO, a 46-year-old Ghanaian has for the second time in his life started having delusions of becoming the next President of Ghana.

Prior to the last elections, he campaigned as an independent presidential candidate but realizing he was on a 'wild goose chase', announced at the eleventh hour that he had defected to the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

This time round, Ramon has formed a political party of his own, the United Love Party (ULP), and he expects to run on the infant party's ticket as a presidential candidate for the December elections.

Interestingly, Ramon himself has admitted that the Electoral Commission has not yet granted any certificate or license to the ULP to operate, yet he claims the party has several millions of members nationwide who are waiting to elect him as Ghana's next president.

The party has adopted the colors of red, blue and white, with its symbol being a red heart.

Appearing and sounding more like someone who had been pierced by the arrow of Cupid, the god of love, Ramon, flanked by three other young men who were dressed in the newborn party's T-shirt, addressed a 'sweet-promise' press conference yesterday during which he launched a verbal attack on almost any journalist who asked him a question.

The ULP founder also completely condemned all the policies of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the NDC, and described himself as the best thing that can happen to Ghana.

He said his party, when voted into power, would use copper, magnet, cow dung and sawdust to generate electricity and ensure that “from February 1st 2009 no Ghanaian will ever pay electricity bills again…and no Ghanaian would ever pay for a telephone call.

“ULP is the only political party in Ghana that has the ability to deliver uninterrupted electricity. This is because we know how to apply technology more than any other political party in Ghana. We know that our biggest problem in Ghana today is electricity. In order for industrialization of any kind to be successful, we need sustainable energy. This is why we say no more electricity bills for all Ghanaians. We would turn free electricity into revenue for the people and for the government,” he added.

Ramon promised further that the ULP would provide five million high-paying jobs in a space of four years and a technological revolution in the Ghanaian education system in which mobile phones would be the means of education right from pre-school to the university.

Though the conference was intended to outdoor the infant party's economic plan, it ended up as an opportunity for its founder to misbehave and show utter disrespect to the media, casting negative insinuations that the government had connived with some media houses to run him down.

Answering a question on what has happened to a case in which he was dragged to court in connection with an alleged fraud case, Ramon disclosed that the said case had dragged on for over three years now, and alleged that it was the Editor-in-Chief of the Crusading Guide newspaper, Kweku Baako Jnr who connived with one half lunatic to frame that case up against him.

Ramon also launched an attack on Peace FM's Yaw Obeng Manu who wanted to know if the ULP founder would not chicken out of the race as he did in the last elections. He said peace FM was in bed with the government of the day so he was not surprised at the question.

By Halifax Ansah-Addo