John Mahama Is Fiddling While Rome Burns

I trembled convulsively when I heard Dr. Omane Boamah's wonted spiel on an Accra based radio network. News had percolated through that President John Mahama had gone to the Ashanti region as part of his itinerary circuit of inspecting infrastructural projects. As the minister of communication and part of the President's entourage, Dr Omane Boamah was being interviewed to throw more light on the exercise.

Predictably, he assiverated that, President John Mahama was given a heroic welcome when he got to the Ashanti Region."A crowd of people had lined up along the the streets to hail the president in appreciation of the good work he has done in the region", he added.When he tried to paint a comely picture, the timbre and cadence of his voice betrayed him with something close to downright propaganda and sophistry.

Following the NDC's improved performance in the Ashanti region in the 2012 elections,which some political observers have attributed to apathy with regards to some NPP enthusiasts in that region, they have meliflously insisted against what seems to be an overly intricate task that they are going to fetch one million of the total votes that would be cast in the region come the 2016 elections.On june 20, 2015, the National Democratic congress once again launched what they termed "agenda 50-50" in the Eastern Region.

They claimed that since that region is a strong hold of the New Patriotic party, they would equally share the total votes that would be cast in the Region come the 2016 elections.The impression here is that, the National Democratic Congress has endeared themselves to the Ghanaian electorates particularly in regions where hitherto were not friendly to their cause.So the idea is to wheedle and hoodwink these electorates into voting for them.It is in keeping to this recondite blueprint that the Mahama government would give its eye teeth to grease the skids by taking a number of infrastructural projects to the Ashanti and Eastern regions.

Hardly can it be controverted that the Mahama government has been mirthless and cognitively dissonant.The topsy turvy state of the Ghanaian economy compels the average joe to throe and live on the breadline.It goes without saying that the Mahama government is only interested in winning the next elections.They would rather scacrifice fixing the dreadful economy on the altar of prodigally husbanding state resources just for electoral advantage.The egregious failure of this NDC government, paripassu the chutzpah and aplomb with which its upper echelons make conceited assertions such as, "agenda 50-50" and "operation one million votes", make one muse over the smouldering perception that the 2012 elections was skewed.

I am screamingly baffled that a government whose entire first term has been bedevilled with a lingering energy crises and severe hardship would have an avowed intent of winning the next elections. It is a basic fact rhymed everyday by crech kids that the Mahama government has made life very difficult for the Ghanaian people.Regretably, this government toils to catapult Ghana into a state of elysium with such a voracious quest of whitewashing its Himalayan blunders.

Unreservedly,the tenor of the tirades of the NDC yes-men in trumpeting their so called acheivements in a pig's eye,only gives the axiomatic impression of a group of self assured gasconades and popinjays who have proven to lack the ability to combine their variegated and ineluctable scholastic competence with candor and benignity.

One inevitable question that has been lingering on the minds of most Ghanaians is why well -fed officialdom always paint a near rosy picture and keep high-fiving about putting up infrustructural projects when the average Ghanaian winces or at best feels very ambivalent about it because he/she can hardly see the impact on their everyday cost of living?The more the Ghanaian whines all his complains,the more the purloining politicos feed us with a slew of feel food stories about how the Ghanaian economy is going to transform.

If President Mahama's trip to Kumasi was characterized by a warm reception and convival as Dr Omane Boahma wants us to believe,then it goes without saying that this done thing is akin to the proverbial trojan horse by which the Greeks gained access to Troy during the Trojan war.