body-container-line-1

The True Colours Of The NPP

Feature Article The True Colours Of The NPP
JUN 8, 2013 LISTEN

The country witnessed a 4-day reprisal attack on innocent Ghanaians by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) immediately after the December, 2012 Election Results were declared by Dr. Afari Gyan. Are these not the group of people who boast of rule of law; are they the ones who claim credit for press freedom; are they not the group which promises to protect the independence of institutions of state; didn't they promise development in freedom without bloodshed? The group again organized a heated demonstration at Kumasi after boasting of going to court profusely to Ghanaians; the date keeps changing from January 1st, 2013.

Today, Ghanaians are seeing the true colours of the NPP. This revelation is long overdue. Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah will be turning in his grave for this historical vindication of his position against the deadly Danquah-Busiah Tradition. They only add Dombo when drawing closer to general elections. This is a political group that has never accepted the outcome of any peaceful electioneering results, since the early 1950's.

Anytime they lose election, they resort to bomb throwing, butchering humans, maiming innocent market women and children, burning markets, setting transformers ablaze, violently demonstrating, making the new nation ungovernable, etc.; they who boast of having the most learned lawyers do not run to the courts for redress but puts the law in their hands and henceforth causes fear and panic among innocent citizens.

The NPP is a tribal party made up of Ashantis (majority) and the Akyems(minority), unlike the CPP, the NDC, the GCPP, etc., which are known national parties. No tribe, apart from the two tribes mentioned, can lead the NPP, but with the NDC any tribe can lead it at any point in time; this is a true national party.

The NPP will keep on losing power until they repent from their tribal, insulting, deadly and brutal ways of politicking.

Ghanaians and the African child are much awake. They are ready to name and shame all chiefdom parties that have never been democratic. In a true Republican state, there is no room for chiefdoms; this is because the revolution of Democracy has replaced the moribund chieftaincy institutions worldwide. If any political leader believes he hails from a particular ruling chiefdom/class so deserves the leadership of this nation, that individual must be living in 'Kukus land' and must be referred to the 'stone age'.

Thoroughly check through the leadership of the NPP since 1951 and you would be amazed to find out that no other tribe, apart from Ashanti and Akyem, are favoured for Presidential Candidates. The NPP was first the NLM, UP, PP and the PFP. In an attempt to change their Party from a tribal Party to a Bourgeoisie Party of the Rich class, they chose the name NPP. Their modus operandi is to deliberately confuse the thoughts of right thinking people to accept them as a National Party (which they are not) in the current political atmosphere. They did this just to win votes from other Regions apart from the Ashanti and the Eastern. Until the last four Elections, the NPP Party had not won beyond two Regions. The contradictions in that Party has brought to light the true facts about the NPP Party and due to this, the 2008 and the 2012 elections sent them back to their former position of consolidating only Ashanti block votes and less than 56% votes from the Eastern Region.

The Party has consistently chastised other tribes other than the Akan (Ashantis and Akyems). The Party describes Northerners as slaves, farmers, uneducated, pastoralists, etc., whose base should always be with the flock of sheep or cattle; they describe them as 'the shabbily dressed', the uncultured and some unprintable names. Leading members of the NPP made statements like the following:

1. 'Northerners must go through a long apprenticeship practice before they can become Vice Presidential Candidates for the NPP' by Hon. Kyei Mensah Bonsu (Minority leader NPP).

2. 'Te ni aboa', literally means 'the animal Northerner'.

3. 'Te nii aa ne nantu apaapai', literally means 'wretched footed Northerner'.

4. 'hadn't it been free education, President Mahama, Haruna Iddrisu, Inusah Fuseini, etc., will all be in the field rearing cattle' by Madam Ursula Owusu.

5. 'yen ma te ni bedi yen su', literally means ' we are not going to allow any Northerner to rule us', by NPP 2012.

6. They currently call 'kayayei'(head porters) John Mahama.

These and many other statements were made by the NPP Party against Northerners. When former Vice President Aliu Mahama, under the Kuffour regime, stood for the NPP's 2008 Presidential primaries, he was humiliated with votes less than 7%. With the NDC, Vice Presidents are potentially the next Presidential Candidates; the NPP sees theirs as 'cosmetics' for Northern Block votes.

On other tribes, Ewe's were described by Victor Owusu in the 1979's as 'inward looking people'. In 2009, Nana Akufo Addo described Ewe's as 'one way voters'.

In 2010 when the NPP were in search for a Vice Presidential Candidate to support Nana Akufo Addo, the Minority leader of the NPP said categorically that there is no qualified Ga in the NPP to be a Vice Presidential Candidate. Ask yourself carefully, what about NPP's Ayikoi Otoo (Lawyer), Rev. Mike Oquaye, Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, Nii Kwartei Titus Glover, Naa Torshii, etc., all these persons are Ga's in the NPP.

On 10th December, 2012 at 5:30 pm, NPP supporters who gathered at Nana Addo's Nima Residence were asked to converge at the Independence Square the next day, with 'catapults and other gadgets that are not subject to registration before use'. They then chanted the 'all die be die' slogan. The next day one Taxi Driver was stabbed to death; another young man (Atsu at Asylum Down) sustained serious injuries, by the cutlasses of the NPP irate supporters from their headquarters.

Is it right for the NPP to drive away violently, all non Akans from the Ashanti region? In which direction are we moving as a nation? Is history repeating itself; previously we do have in this country Northern Peoples Party (NPP), Ashanti (National Liberation Movement (NLM)), the Ga Shifi mo Kpee, the Togoland congress, and other pockets of tribal parties in the 1950's? Are we still not of age in a republican nation to forgo this practice? Should other tribes also take up the same position taken by the NPP today, what would be of this nation? God save our mother Ghana.

The other day was to boycott Parliament (1993), today they accept Parliamentary results and reject Presidential ones. They had never accepted election results which went against them; for instance the 1992, 1996, 2008 and 2012. They are in court seeking to overturn the rightful winner of the 2012 polls. The NPP is noted for its judicial corrupt practices. They are capable of bribing their way through; in the event of land grabs, they demarcated a portion for the Chief Justice purposely to compromise her position.

They can be least exonerated from the recent orchestrated fire outbreaks at our markets. It can be recalled that at a 'Let My Vote Count' Rally of the NPP, a spokesperson on that platform urged their supporters to kill school children, burn markets, bomb schools, kill people, in order to register their dissatisfaction with the 2012 general elections. We can't out-rule their likely involvement in the recent fire outbreaks.

Fellow citizens, know and practice the truth and the truth shall set you free.

LONG LIVE THE TRUTH
LONG LIVE AFRCA AND ITS PROGRESSIVE FORCES
LONG LIVE GHANA; THE LODE STAR OF AFRICA

Editor's Note:

LAMPTEY LAWRENCE (the shadratic elenchus)
0247251024

body-container-line