Kwesi Pratt Dumps Wealthy Otekpolu For Penniless STX

“The fact that something is needed, and the fact that there is an opportunity to satisfy that need, should not mean that we should abandon our critical sense of balance and consideration,” Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, Executive Director of the Danquah Institute.

With the withdrawal of this STX deal, I expect Alhaji Bature (a self-classd media consultant), Hannah Bissiw and Anita de Sosoo who, today, have rotten eggs splashed all over their now thwarted and contorted faces, to come out and apologize to Ghanaians.

This is because these individuals exhibited shameful ignorance and arrogance by branding all those who pointed out the shoddiness of the deal as people who do not want anything good for Ghana.

These perpetual noise-makers said the deal was being opposed by only people who were scared that its success was going to wipe out their electoral fortunes.

These people were castigating very learned, patriotic and conscientious people as Kofi Bentil, Franklin Cudjoe and Bright Simmons, all of IMANI-Ghana, and Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko (the STXlone-ranger) of the Danquah Institute.

Due to his lack of academic capacity to read and understand what was contained in the contract agreement, Alhaji Bature branded IMANI, a reputable independent policy think-tank, as an appendage of NPP because they (IMANI) were opposing some aspects of the STX deal at the time.

Here, I would make an appeal to Asempa Fm to be wary of providing this man the platform and priceless airtime to continuously inflict his total ignorance on the cherished listeners of their radio station.  

As a matter of fact, I have followed the happenings on our political scene for sometime now and I wonder how, as Ghanaians, we take so much delight in making fun of ourselves when it comes to dealing with issues of national importance, and yet, continue to be under the illusion that things are going to change for the better.

Is this due to unadulterated insanity or crass unpatriotism? Or could it be that we have all been bitten by this delusional virus that is currently tearing our nation's seat of government apart?

I have had the chance of living in most European countries and this has afforded me the opportunity to personally experience what it means when you talk about patriotism and principles.

These nations are obviously not being inhabited by saints. But when it comes to the question of seeing to the advancement of their country, hypocrisy, boot-licking and personal greed are pushed to the back-burner.

I believe they do this knowing that a comprehensive progression of their nation is inextricably linked with their individual well-being.

With this mind-set, it is almost unthinkable for persons in these societies to engage in plain insults and frivolous demonization of political opponents during campaign periods.

There have been elections in countries as Britain and Poland recently, and did we hear of any looming apocalypse in these nations?

As a matter of fact, I was in Britain when the New Labour (as the Labour party was packaged then) under the stewardship of Tony Blair, took over the reigns of governance from the Conservatives who had then been in power for close to 20 years.

The parties campaigned alright but you wake up in the morning and you are not confronted with useless noise on radio from any group of irresponsible self-seeking irritants. Elections will be taking place but life will continue as normal.

Even in the recent British elections, many voters could not vote because polling had ended, even though they were at the voting centres well before time.

Now, can you imagine what extremely power-hungry adults like Tony Aidoo, Kwesi Pratt, Koku 'the bull' Anyidoho and Elvis Afriyie-Ankrah would have done if this scenario had played out here in Ghana in 2008?

Do you remember NDC holding a press conference at 1am to accuse Kufuor and Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan of engaging in electoral fraud, at a time results across the nation had barely started trickling in?

 Poland, after that tragic plane crash in Russia which claimed the life of their sitting president and other top government and military officials, has conducted elections recently to elect a new leader.

The first round of the election ended with no clear winner and it had to go into a second round. This was also conducted without any incident.

I am giving these examples to buttress the point that politics in these developed nations are considered as a vehicle through which one can use to serve his people.

And for this reason, they see no reason why someone claiming to be seeking a mandate to be a servant should engage in a life-and-death kind of politicking.

But when it comes to Africa, and in this case Ghana, politics has always been the vehicle most people ride on to their personal economic emancipation.

It is for this reason that we witnessed such negatively aggressive posture of the NDC and their CJA appendage, before and during the 2008 elections.

They had been out of power for 8 years and the dry and cold harmattan winds of opposition had completely wiped out all their looted treasures and penury was glaringly staring them in the face.

And with the oil discovery, these people were scared stiff for the simple reason that the NPP was going to invest the accrued revenue to improve the livelihood of the citizenry, which will in turn put the final nail in the coffin of NDC's electoral fortunes.

As a result, the NDC decided to put in place an elaborate 'kuluulu', lies and war-mongering machinery for the 2008 general elections.

Individuals were let loose to threaten fire and brimstone on the decent people of Ghana if, in their warped minds, the NPP colluded with Electoral Commission to 'rig' the results.

They used their infamous weekly programme on Radio Gold to castigate whatever the NPP was doing.

It was on this programme that Kwesi Pratt always tried to force down the throat of Ghanaians, Kufuor being completely bereft of ideas and that the nation had been taken to the point where people have lost hope.

And some of their reasons for that assertion were that Kufuor was always traveling to seek assistance from abroad when all the solutions to every single problem confronting our nation can be found here at home.

Kufuor was constantly insulted because Ghana was importing consumables like tooth-pick, rice, tomatoes, onions, plantain, cocoyam and so on.

“It doesn't take rocket science to produce tooth-picks,” 'Massa' Kwesi constantly yelled on air. “Is tooth-pick not made from just bamboo?” he continued to yell.

He said Ghana abounds in bamboo forests and that one only needs to walk into one of these bamboo forests, brandishing just a pen-knife or okapi (as the senior citizens will call it) and he/she will be churning out articulator loads of tooth-picks every second.

This, they said, the NPP wasn't doing so they (NPP) must be voted out of power.

The NDC has been in power for almost 2 years now. These vast hectres of our nation's bamboo forest cover still exist; pen-knives are on the market 'pukyaaaa' (plenty), and yet, tooth-picks are still being imported into our country under the crooked noses of these lying social-democrats and their now defunct CJA collaborators.

Even the affordable housing project NPP administration started was scorned at on the grounds that the unit cost of $14,000 was completely out of reach of the ordinary 'kayaye'.

And I guess Atta Mills is going to perform one of his T.B Joshua-induced miracles to make it possible for all 'kayayes' to own some of these $50,000 per unit STX 'affordable' houses.

I very well remember Kwesi Pratt always shouting on radio stations, commanding all Ghanaians to take a ride along the Circle-Malata-Newtown-Pig Farm road at night and witness for ourselves how some of our compatriots jostle for sleeping spaces on the pavements along this stretch of road.

The NPP administration was virtually blamed for this phenomenon on the grounds that there is this limitless deposit of what 'Massa' Kwesi describes as “natural black cement” at a place called Otekpolu, which can be located somewhere in the Eastern Region.

This town called Otekpolu became the CJA hymnal from which these NDC apologists, led by 'Jack Toronto' Kwesi Pratt, persistently rocked our ear drums with.

They said the complete solution to our housing stock deficit is embedded within the bellies of the mountains of quiet and peaceful environs of Otekpolu.

They said it makes absolutely no sense to use normal cement to construct houses since it is costly and also traps and emits heat in the day and at night respectively.

Again, Kwesi Pratt sat on Radio Gold and prescribed for the people of this nation, 'Atakpami' (mud-thatched) houses because materials used in constructing such buildings are home-grown, readily available and cheap.

He said people would save billions of cedis, monthly, by living in such buildings because they neither trap nor emit heat in the day and at night respectively, and as a result, there would be no need to use fans, air conditioners and so on.

Therefore, having catapulted Atta Mills to the presidency through naked violence, lies and intimidations, some of us were eagerly waiting for the actualization of this 'Otekpolu-magic' to come and wipe out our entire national housing deficit 'wahala', only to hear 'Massa' Kwesi Pratt on air defending, with the very last drop of his now 'missing-in-action' CJA blood, this STX deal.

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