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Is The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo Going To Be A Similitude Of Biblical Esther Or Delilah?

Feature Article Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo
MAY 28, 2017 LISTEN
Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo

I have an inkling of how His Excellency the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, expects his wife, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, to play a dynamic, dedicated, honest and supportive role to help him succeed as the President of Ghana that the current generation and posterity will be thankful to, and mention his name with pride and in association with the abundant good things he did. If it were not so, the President would not have said that in his focused drive and determination to not only resolutely clamp the wings of institutional corruption but also, rid Ghana of it, not even his wife, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, could dissuade him from prosecuting officials found to have involved in corruption.

The President has publicly asserted that any public official discovered to have committed an abhorrent corrupt practice against the nation, if they or their relatives approached his wife to persuade him to have mercy upon them without causing their prosecution, he would not listen to the wife. This goes to confirm the incorruptibility, absolute resolve to serve Ghana and Ghanaians with dedication and honesty by the stringent application of the rule of law, by the “Akyem kwaa a 3nnom Birim”, who I glowingly and proudly describe as the biblical Joseph, Moses or David, of our times, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

He is not stupid. He knows the adverse roles wives could intentionally diabolically or inadvertently play to culminate in the downfall of their better-halves hence this advance public warning to those intending to approach his wife for assistance when caught at variance with the law.

As it is a known and proven fact that behind any successful man there is a woman, I have been compelled to put out this advisory publication for the attention of our First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, for her to be aware of the positive role she is expected to play in support of her husband to succeed and to live up to the admirable expectations of the majority of Ghanaians, if not all Ghanaians.

Your husband by his historic maternal origin is an “Akyem kwaa a 3nnom Birim” meaning, a proud son of Akyem State who drinks from river Birim. However, he can no longer avail himself of that pride why because some selfish, myopic and wicked persons doing or are supportive of legal or illegal surface mining popularly called as galamsey in Ghana, have spoiled the river by their criminal activities. Therefore, he can no longer drink the water of river Birim hence artificially temporarily ceasing to be an “Akyem kwaa a 3nnom Birim” because the river is no more potable.

Your husband wants to stop not only river Birim but also, all the other water bodies in Ghana from getting spoiled by these selfish and insatiably greedy short-sighted individuals supported by some highly-placed government appointees or officials taking bribes from the galamseyers or bonking the Chinese ladies who are the kingpins of the galamsey to give them the unlimited operational licence to ravage the nation’s ecosystem.

If such perpetrators of this crime or those intentionally criminally embezzling public funds were caught and came to you to help them secure their freedom from the grips of the relevant laws of the land, will you do it? If you do it, then you would have corrupted yourself and knowingly or unknowingly dented the integrity of your so far renowned incorruptible husband.

A few greedy individuals who have completely no compassion on the suffering masses have appropriated to themselves the taxpayers’ money to the detriment of the taxpayers. Your husband is determined to punish them to serve as a deterrence to other would-be perpetrators of same or similar crimes to stop Ghana from becoming poor and to stop Ghanaian ladies and men from going to the Arab countries to be treated worse than their employer’s pet and/or killed as is happening to some people in Saudi Arabia. Will you support him achieve this golden goal for the people of Ghana or you will sabotage him by pleading on behalf of these criminals to allow them continue to devastate Ghana for others to be attracted to same irresponsible behaviours?

I shall not continue any further as it is said, it does not take long for the good ear to assimilate what is told. However, may I seize this opportunity to ask whether or not you want to be like the biblical Esther or Delilah in the life of your husband as the President of Ghana; a man appointed by God to liberate Ghanaians from the ruinous corruption masterminded, perpetrated and perpetuated by former President John Dramani Mahama and his bunch of the Ghanaian version of the Arabian “Alibaba and his forty thieves?”

The actions of former President Mahama, his family, cronies, and most of his Government Ministers and appointees of all sorts were detrimental to the survival and the prosperity of the entire country and the majority of the people therein.

Nonetheless, I shall refer you to the bible, and request you to familiarise yourself with the stories of both Esther and Delilah. Read the book of Esther and Judges 16 as in the Holy Bible to choose among the two characters or persons which one you desire to adopt as your role model, Esther or Delilah, to becoming faithful to one’s husband and in serving humanity to the expectations of God.

Mordecai, a Jew, had revealed a plot to assassinate the King. He was rewarded for his honesty and care about the King. Subsequently, he was hated by Haman, a top ranking official in the King’s palace who doubled as his confidante. Haman had come to see his position as threatened by the elevation of Mordecai hence he schemed to kill not only him but also, all the Jews in the Kingdom. However, Mordecai was a cousin of Esther who had become the wife of the King, King Ahasuerus (Xerxes I) of the Persian Empire.

Mordecai said to Esther, "Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" - Esther 4:14.

In Esther 4:16 she answered Mordecai by saying, "Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish." Esther by the action she took, saved the Jews from execution.

However, in Judges 16, we see a wife plotting against her husband. She succeeded in getting the husband overpowered by his enemies, gorged out his eyes, taken into slavery, and finally killed. This wife in discussion is Delilah, the wife of the biblical Jewish strongman Samson.

She had said to Samson, in Judges 16:15, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you won’t confide in me? This is the third time you have made a fool of me and haven’t told me the secret of your great strength.” 16 With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it. 17 So he told her everything. “No razor has ever been used on my head,” he said, “because I have been a Nazirite dedicated to God from my mother’s womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man.” 18 When Delilah saw that he had told her everything, she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines, “Come back once more; he has told me everything.”

First Lady, I wish you the best of luck in your endeavours to assist Ghanaians achieve much from the services your husband is determined to render to mother Ghana and his fellow Ghanaians who have entrusted him with their care, safety and protection against anything that may make them sub-humans in their own land; against anything that destroys their self-esteem as Ghanaians.

I pray you take my advice very seriously as I shall soon be quitting the internet for some time to attend to other matters of major private concern to me but not until I have seen to the successful end of the nagging ongoing Kumawu chieftaincy dispute, a classic example of official corruption in perpetration and perpetuation by an Ashanti Overlord, some judges and politicians.

Rockson Adofo
(Written on Saturday, 27 May 2017)

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