President Mills had A Child Out Of Wedlock And So What?

It was refreshingly awful listening to Miss Ursula Owusu an NPP activist and Dr Hannah Bissiw the deputy Minister of Water Resources Works and Housing on Peace FM's Kokroko program on Wednesday 16th July 2010.

The two were commenting on the issue of immorality raised by John Jinapor an aide to the Vice President on Metro TV Good Morning Ghana program the previous Monday.

Whiles I condemned John Jinapor's reckless remarks in no uncertain terms, I vehemently slight Miss Ursula Owusu's equally slanderous attack on the President and his Vice.

Ursula in her usual self questioned the moral uprightness of His Excellency John Mills and the Vice President John Mahama.

“Under the constitution, I have every right to do whatever pleases me with any adult by due consent”

“In pointing fingers at somebody, look closer to home -----If you are talking about morals, the President himself has a child out of wedlock” Those were the exact words of Miss Ursula Owusu.

I can't believe that a public figure like Ursula Owusu would say such a thing and refer to the President. What has the President got to do with your brawl with the spokesperson to the Vice President?

Where on earth can a lawyer worth her sort make such stinking proclamation and go away with it?

That there is something fundamentally wrong with us as a people is not in doubt. I am out of words to describe this unfortunately loose, unguarded and grossly mischievous comment from this gender activist and politician who would want to be addressed as a lawyer. Clearly, this cannot be considered as a civilized behaviour.

Politics is not about insults, it is about nation building, development and exchange of ideas. Where in Ghana's constitution is producing a child out of wedlock illegal?

Kwame Nkrumah's first son was from a different mother, Professor Busia had two sons before settling down, and Chief Kufour is not the son of Madam Theresa Kufour. Does it make all these statesmen immoral?

Ursula should know that she is a woman and when it comes to insults, I don't think she is that emotionally strong to withstand her own description. She is extremely dirty in her language and an apology to womanhood.

It is quite interesting to hear/see people fight against certain things whiles at the same time doing those things that they claim to be fighting against.

For me, her position as a gender activist has been exposed as a political rhetoric without the slightest possession of any of the qualities of a gender activist. Her public utterances are so selfish, opportunistic, arrogant and laden with serious intellectual difficulties.

On one hand you want the Vice President to discipline his spokesman for gross indiscipline and on the other hand, making sarcastic statements about the President and his Vice. It is so embarrassing to hear this woman speak.

Ursula seems to have developed loose mouth and she talks as if she knows it all. I don't know what this woman wants. You play dirty politics and if a comment is directed at you, then you try to play the gender card, just because you claim to be gender advocate. She is really pissing everybody off. Ursula, do your advocacy thing. That could be the veil for you to hide behind and don't allow your political ambition to clout your way of thinking so as to erode further the remainder of your integrity if any. And learn to shut up because shutting up sometimes takes the focus off you, and it shows maturity as well.

It is very sad and degrading for women to come out in public to announce their immorality and other deviant behaviour without any iota of shame. Can these people be good wives muchless mothers?

Where then is the future of our children and role models for our youths?

Ursula's conduct is not only offensive but repugnant. If I may ask could it be menopausal syndrome setting in? I am just wondering, maybe she needs our pity instead of condemnation. I suggest she visit the physician, it could be hormonal imbalance.

We are doing so well at running this country down. I really I'm not very conversant with how much we, the people of Ghana, have been influenced by westernization. What kind of world do Ghanaians live in? Where the flaws in man is not to be mention for the sake of making everyone feel good; where a sitting President is stingingly bad-mouthed for the sake of unruly freedom.

Ghanaians must learn to cut the crap out of blind-globally-accepted democracy and learn to pursue godly accepted democracy where freedom and rights come with responsibility. We should pursue what is good for our unique nation; or else we would be competing with Hell.

I rest my case.

Emmanuel Dela Coffie
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