Akufo-Addo’s Agenda for Damning his own Administration...

Folks, let's not continue to overstretch ourselves in looking for dung in this Akufo-Addo government where no cattle has ever grazed. The truth is that Akufo-Addo has set his stage for governing Ghana and all that is happening fits into his agenda as such. Blame him we will, but once his mind is made up, there is nothing anybody can do to prevent him from the headlong crash that awaits him.

Much has happened since he took over from John Mahama for him to know that the agenda that he had drawn up while in opposition isn't applicable to what he is expected to do now in power. Unfortunately, he is blinded by his own limitations, which explains why he isn't forthcoming as a LEADER but as the head of a government that is more focused on fomenting trouble than solving the problems that it was elected to deal with.

No day passes by without his own government or its supporters causing confusion all over the country---be it politically motivated or influenced by chieftaincy and land disputes. We are even not talking about the disruption of local government business by the hoodlums that he has blessed to behave the way they do as if Ghana is a jungle in which might should prevail over right!!

All that Akufo-Addo means to Ghanaian politics over the past 40 years is not in doubt. What happened before he won Election 2016 is no secret. What is happening under his Presidency is no secret either.

Just a throwback. Akufo-Addo's unbridled quest for the Presidency of Ghana took him through several circuitous rounds of ridiculous enactments and recourse to whatever would project his ambitions. Whether for good or bad, he pressed on, leaning on all manner of people and institutions---not to talk about occurrences---to be what he is today.

Suffering in opposition (even within his own NPP when Kufuor and Co. were in in control and under the NDC administration led by Rawlings, Mills, and Mahama) gave him much to think about, which led him to venture into opportunistic political jingoism of the kind that would make him institutionalize vigilantism and odd forms that are now threatening his own viability as a leader.

In truth, he has set his own agenda for self-destruction. Much of what he has begun doing raises terrible questions, which the International Monetary Fund has begun questioning. That is even not about the fraudulent things happening under his watch. Is Ken Ofori-Atta still a credible character? Ghana's economy isn't making it under such a fraudulent character.

The IMF is worried, which it made known at the meeting with the Ghanaian government team, regardless of the ugly noise being made by Dr. Borrowmia (who has just within 11 months in office turned out to be the most useless Vice President that Ghana has had so far. Even the sidelined Aliu Mahama had his bright days). Can you imagine why his unfaithful wife, Samira, has been sent out on useless international ventures at the expense of the Ghanaian tax payer to be in India and other countries that contribute little to Ghana's good?

The last time I read anything about her, she was in India and another wretched part of the world promoting a cause that Ghanaians have little interest in. Such a displaced Fulani woman can't even give any advice on how to solve the menace of the Fulani cattle breeders and rustlers in Ghana has no justification for enjoying the benefits of the Ghanaian tax payer. Yet, she is being thrown about and portrayed as the epitome of a successful Ghanaian "second lady". Disgusting!!)

On a more current note, much crops up for attention. George Ayisi-Boateng's stupendous stupidity stands tall. I have already said that Akufo-Addo cannot dismiss him from office for obvious reasons, which explains why the agitations by his own ardent supporters (including his own vociferous ventriloquist Kwaku Baakos and Co.) for him to listen to reason and get rid of Ayisi-Boateng is futile.

Akufo-Addo is no leader to rely on. In any case, any national character of his kind who qualifies as a leader doesn't need any agitation by his own party insiders to act in matters of the sort raised by Ayisi-Boateng's stupidity.

Interestingly, Akufo-Addo hasn't thus far personally responded to that monumental stupidity even after causing Ayisi-Boateng to appear at the Flagstaff House to meet his Chief of Staff. (Snippets from that meeting showed that Ayisi-Boateng pulled the strings instead of bowing to pressure. Akufo-Addo himself had to step in to get an apology from him. What sort of leader is that?).

Now, to more important issues involving Akufo-Addo's governance style. Nothing to write home about as of now. I have already made it clear that I haven't seen anything new under his rule to prove that putting him in power is monumental as far as the expected paradigm change for Ghana's good might be concerned.

He is treading the old path and muddying the waters for nothing. His attempt to prosecute functionaries of the Mahama administration expose him as shallow-minded and incompetent. I shudder to think how his so-called Office of Special prosecutor can function without his interference in matters that are all too-well-known to Ghanaians as the nem con of Ghanaian politics.

What did functionaries of the Mahama administration do that others in the Rawlings, Kufuor, and Mills governments didn't do? And why pinpoint only those in the Mahama administration? A misplaced agenda of political vengeance? It won't work for Ghana's good!!

Many more areas to cover, folks. What has unfolded so far under Akufo-Addo is more scary than what Ghanaians have had to face all these years. Despite it all, what has Akufo-Addo done to prove that his government has within 11 months in office laid the foundation to improve living standards for Ghanaians?

I am wondering about the Cedi-Dollar exchange rate, which has virtually determined the flow of business in the country. How about the cost of petroleum products, electricity, foodstuffs, etc.?

Let's put hardcore partisan politics aside to say that all that has issued forth from Akufo-Addo is nothing different from what we have had all these years. It's a huge surfeit. So, where is the silver lining? Remember that the IMF, which superintends over everything has already faulted the Akufo-Addo government for either overspending on projects that cannot sustain Ghana's economy or that such an expenditure is not supported by the tax regime.

Folks, think closely about the tax regime, which will be my next focus. The fundamental question is: Now that Akufo-Addo has ensconced himself in power, who is praising him for any achievement anywhere? Even the flagship policy of free SHS is out of question because of its massive inadequacies.

Then, let's seriously consider the impact of the NPP's brand of vigilantism on Ghana, which has emasculated the legitimate national security organizations. A brief analysis here: The Ghana Armed Forces isn't acting the way it used to do under those who gave them the highest regard because they were part of them and knew what they were worth. They might be lying low today because they don't want to spring any surprise to subvert the national democratic process not because Akufo-Addo has put his favourites in command positions. Who fears them, anyway? Kitchen soldiers they are!!

Akufo-Addo's vigilante groups have coloured themselves as Ghana's national security apparatus, even when they least know what that means. They are deceiving themselves that by openly operating disastrously everywhere because of political support to show their political colour and being backed by Akufo-Addo, they are in control of affairs. Woe betide them when the real men of strength show up to consign them where they truly belong as cowards. Let them know that "it is no (act of) bravery when a man fights a woman!!

Folks, let's be apt here to say that the stage that Akufo-Addo has set has a long way to go to his own disadvantage and the overall retrogression of Ghana. Building a country takes more than what Akufo has done so far in setting this narrow stage. And when the chicks come back home to roost, disaster erupts for the country’s woes. Why are his earlier adamant supporters now silent or circumspect in their public utterances about the stuff that he is made of to redeem Ghana from the clutches of the Rawlings spectre? And why are they in bed with the Rawlings that they have all along portrayed as the anathema to be blamed for Ghana’s woes?

My voice. What is yours?
I shall return…

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