Tema Regional Branch Of The United Cadres Front Of Ghana Reacts To Mensa Otabil
The United Cadres Front of Ghana (UCF-GHANA) Tema Regional Branch wish to react to Mensa Otabil’s attempt at inciting the Ghanaian citizenry against the ruling government. We are particularly at pains to understand the logic behind: “We can’t just be happy because a road has been done. We can’t just be happy because we didn’t have electricity and now we have electricity”.
This is a purely partisan political talk and the UCF-GHANA will not acknowledge him speaking as a minister of the Good Gospel of God. To us he has become a seasoned politician and we are addressing him as such. If the NPP has unleashed some clergymen to hide in their clerical cloaks and dabble in the dirty politics that has infected this other-wise well cultured and peaceful country and wish to soil their reverend apparels in it, we shall respond to them in like-manner.
What sense does it make when vehicle owners who complain of bad roads that affect them badly not be happy when a road is done? Why should citizens not be grateful to government when a damning energy crisis that nearly stopped the heart-beat of a whole country’s economy when it is finally FIXED? And why should an individual who crowns himself as the super depository of knowledge think that because he is not satisfied, the entire citizenry must flow with him?
Mensa Otabil sank himself in Partisan politics when he posited that those who constitute the current ruling government are not citizens of this country thus, the need for citizens to take back their country. What else could we make of this?: “WE HAVE TO WREST THE NATION BACK AND CONTROL IT AS CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY AND THAT IS THE CHALLENGE I WANT TO PUT TO YOU. YOU HAVE TO DARE TO DREAM TO TAKE OUR NATION BACK.
“I HOPE THAT AS WE CELEBRATE THIS STORY, AND I LIKE HOW IT WAS PUT EARLIER (referring to a book he was launching) THAT IT’S A REVOLUTION AND IT’S REALLY A REVOLUTION. WE HAVE TO BATTLE, WE HAVE TO FIGHT, WE HAVE TO WREST THE DESTINY OF OUR NATION FROM INCOMPETENCE AND FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE DETERMINED TO RUN US TO THE GROUND” (all emphasis, ours).
Politician Mensa Otabil ought to be told in plain language that he and his ilk are not more Ghanaian than the current political leadership and if he wants to incite a revolution he should bring it on, we are more than ready for him and his fellow self-glorified ‘demi-gods’. We, however, caution him that he be mindful of the cost involved in his proposal.
Meanwhile we wish to elicit an answer from Mensah Otabi – whether his latest foul-mouthing is to atone for his commission of ‘sin’ against the NPP in his famous “BAD COMPANY” and “ALL-DIE-BE-DIE” sermon in 2012? He suffered a trashing from the NPP that forced him to organize a press conference, calling radio stations who kept playing the recording as evil. In that media interaction he had not the guts to state that ‘indeed, I said what is being played’. He confirmed the voice was his but that the recording was doctored. That is the attitude of a ‘FEARLESS’ and ‘TRUTHFUL’ man of a god who cannot own up to his own careless utterances.
He advocated government weaning itself off the management of the health and educational sectors to private business because it had no business meddling in those sectors. Hear him: “The state is doing everything…running our hospitals, running our schools, employing all the people and messing it up big time”. How else could majority of Ghanaians understand him than a purely business cleric? This is a man who does not believe in Free Education because education to him must necessarily be expensive and exclusive of the wealthy.
His “BAD COMPANY” message in which he mentioned education cannot be free was not really against the Nana Akufo Addo message per se, but his own commercial conviction in that belief. Long before the Nana Akufo Addo campaign message, Mensa Otabil had advocated in one of his sermons to the congregation that if Ghanaians wanted good education – they must expensively pay for it.
Mensa Otabil, will ‘fight’ any Ghanaian who advocates Free Education, because he has become an Educational Entrepreneur whose business interest will be crushed if any government succeeds in fully implementing it. We can cite his Central University as one of the most expensive private universities in the country currently. A semester fees of his university is over twice that of public universities.
He has become a rich elite personality in society and, therefore, it is only the rich elite who can cough out such fees to have their wards educated. So, for the poor in society who are being catered-for by subsidized public universities, Mensa Otabil wants government to take her hands off that sector and hand it over to business men like him? And this is somebody who is inciting a revolution? In whose interest is he launching it – the elite?
This is the man who claims to have this country at heart and wished the government shirks its civic responsibilities of providing health and education to especially the poor because of his selfish business ambitions. That is the Revolutionary Advocate!
Mensa Otabil then veered into the purely NPP political jargon of our time – labeling the leadership of government –“INCOMPETENT”. How else could he have satisfied his political masters and getting their pat without belching it out.
Mr. Otabil – bring your revolution on! But remember that over 51 per cent of the Ghanaian citizenship voted for President John Dramani Mahama in the 2012 elections. If you see we, those who voted the NDC into government as non-citizens – we leave you to your conscience for this wicked insult. Discernible Ghanaians are watching you, including some of your church members.
Signed
Edward Aganaboya Mba (Chairman) 0244284795
Camillus Maalneriba-Tia Sakzeesi (Media/communications Dept.) 0266223333