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13.05.2017 Feature Article

The God Of Ghana Is Far More Powerful And Morally Superior To The Gods Of Bole

The God Of Ghana Is Far More Powerful And Morally Superior To The Gods Of Bole
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I don’t know whom this so-called opinion leader in former President John Dramani Mahama’s hometown of Bole called Mallam Mohammed Hudu thinks he can use his obviously Satanic religious beliefs to fool, but it ought to be clear to any levelheaded Ghanaian by now that the man may be suffering from acute dementia, to think that righteously and constructively exposing Mr. Ibrahim Mahama for the veritable fraud and mega-thief that he has proven himself to be is, a heretical crime against the people of Bole and Ghanaian humanity (See “Kennedy Agyepong [sic] Will Die in a Plane Crash – Bole Opinion Leader” MyNewsGh.com / Ghanaweb.com 5/4/17).

Not long ago, we heard the same sort of morbidly reprobate Bole characters accuse the late Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia, the father of the now-Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, of having used the ungodly spirit of envy to get the late Mr. Emmanuel Mahama removed from his post of the first Northern Regional Minister by President Kwame Nkrumah. This was shortly before the 2016 general election, in which the New Patriotic Party’s presidential ticket pairing Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Dr. Bawumia, as the former’s running-mate, resoundingly trounced the Mahama/Amissah-Arthur-paired presidential-election ticket of the then-ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC).

In his tirade against Alhaji Mumuni Bawumia, the younger brother of Mr. Emmanuel Mahama, or the uncle of former President John Mahama, the critic only ended up proving that, indeed, the Gonja-born first Northern Regional Minister had deviously and thievishly used his prominent and highly influential position of public trust to almost exclusively siphon Ghanaian taxpayer-underwritten resources for the development of Gonjaland, while the rest of the other northern tribes, except for the Dagomba natives and inhabitants of Tamale, endured abject penury. Curiously, but not surprisingly, the anti-Bawumia critic deemed such wanton act of corruption and acute criminality to be tantamount to cultural enlightenment on the part of the culprit.

Predictably and characteristically, we see the same kind of warped logic at play in Mallam Mohammed Hudu’s gratuitous tirade against Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, the firebrand New Patriotic Party’s Member of Parliament for Assin-Central, in the Central Region. Needless to say, Mallam Mohammed Hudu has every right to think and believe whatever he wants about Mr. Agyepong, vis-à-vis any perceived grudge and/or envy that the latter may have against the younger half-brother of the former President. Nonetheless, the most significant and interesting thing about his patently ungodly and decidedly vacuous and preposterous tirades against the renowned media mogul, is that Mallam Mohammed Hudu has not said a single thing to disprove the theft and corruption charges leveled against Mr. Ibrahim Mahama by Mr. Agyepong.

Consequently, cursing Mr. Agyepong with death by plane crash could not be more pathetic; for at the end of the day, each and every human being, including Mallam Mohammed Hudu, will die one way or another. There is no question about the peremptory mortality of humanity. Besides, were Mr. Agyepong to perish in a plane crash today, he definitely would not be either the first human or Ghanaian to have perished in a plane crash. And what is more, dying in a plane crash would not refute the fact that Mr. Ibrahim Mahama once drew at least 24 checks for the payment of some heavy-duty equipment that he had allegedly imported into the country, each and every single one of which was promptly dishonored by his bankers, because contrary to what he had mischievously misled the administrators of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) and our Customs officials to believe, absolutely not a pesewa had been deposited into any of the bank accounts on which these checks had been drawn.

In other words, rather than reflecting negatively on the image and/or personality of the Assin-Central MP, what Mallam Mohammed Hudu’s tirades do is to actually prove the cognitive criminality of a remarkable percentage of the movers-and-shakers among the good people of Bole. Indeed, if I were associated with the Mahama Clan, or Bole township, this is what I would more than anything else be concerned about, especially if I also had any political ambitions towards the highest and most powerful office of the land.

It is also significant to observe that long before Mr. Agyepong exposed the Mahama Brothers for their fraudulent acts of treasonous criminality, a cousin of the same two half-siblings, Ms. Otiko Afisa Djaba, who also happens to be the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, as of this writing, had publicly denounced former President John Dramani Mahama for being an unpardonable disgrace to the integrity and well-being of all Ghanaians of northern descent. Does this therefore mean that Ms. Djaba will also die by plane crash? How about the Mahama Brothers who so criminally defrauded the hardworking Ghanaian taxpayer? And, of course, Mallam Mohammed Hudu himself?

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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
English Department, SUNY-Nassau
Garden City, New York
May 5, 2017
E-mail: [email protected]

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