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25.08.2018 Feature Article

I Don’t See This Threat That Dominic Jale Is Talking About

I Dont See This Threat That Dominic Jale Is Talking About
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Ever since he was fired from his cabinet appointment of Energy Minister by President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, nearly a month ago, some passionate partisans of Mr. Boakye Agyarko have been writing and publishing reams and volumes of articles about what they claim to be the real reasons why they think Mr. Boakye Agyarko was relieved of his post by Nana Akufo-Addo, whose indefatigable presidential campaign manager the former New York City banker once served. The latest Agyarko partisan to write and publish on this subject is somebody by the name of Dominic Jale, in an article captioned “Agyarko Was Always a Threat to Ofori-Atta” (Modernghana.com 8/24/18). I hope Dominic Jale is the real name of the author of the afore-referenced article because in the recent past, a slew of articles has been published under various names quite a remarkable number of which were reliably alleged to have been authored pseudonymously.

Now, there is absolutely nothing wrong with using pseudonyms, for any number of reasons including personal safety, although in the case of some of the authors of the articles on this subject, the reason or reasons might have had more to do with sheer mischief and plain depravity. You see, the first fundamental issue that I would like to take with Mr. Jale’s article is the fact that it literally begs the question that it ought to be answering, which is purely and simply as follows: “Why was Mr. Boakye Agyarko, a longtime trusted Akufo-Addo lieutenant, fired? Did Mr. Boakye Agyarko really commit the crime or malfeasance for which official reason or reasons, he was relieved of his post and duties by Nana Akufo-Addo?” These are the questions and issues that we ought to be discussing and trying to find answers and or solutions to, and not such trite, nauseatingly predictable and purely anecdotal innuendoes as the fact of whether, in fact, any key operative of the Akufo-Addo Administration perceived the former Energy Minister to be a threat to his/her ambitions.

For example, my purely speculative take on this purely anecdotal debate is that if, indeed, Mr. Boakye Agyarko committed any of the contractual blunders or abject lack of expertise or professional competence attributed to him vis-à-vis the rather lame-brained AMERI-Deal – 2 Renegotiation Terms, then I absolutely don’t see how, by any stretch of the proverbial imagination, such an allegedly grossly incompetent fiscal negotiator could pose even the slightest threat to the purported presidential ambitions of Mr. Kenneth Ofori-Atta, assuming, at least even hypothetically, that, indeed, the Finance Minister has been working fervidly and/or scheming around the clock to succeed President Akufo-Addo who, by the way, has not even completed one-half of his first term in office, assuming that the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice has a far greater chance than any of his most formidable political opponents of clinching a second and constitutionally stipulated final term in office.

At any rate, just as I had admonished the younger brother of former President John Agyekum-Kufuor, who had been widely rumored to have been spoiling to succeed his then lame-duck presidential kinsman, I seriously don’t see how advisable it would be for Mr. Ofori-Atta to be feverishly working around the clock, as it were, to succeed Nana Akufo-Addo at least some six years from hence. It simply does not make any practical or realistic sense to me.

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