By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Either Deputy Information Minister Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa takes the majority of Ghanaians for congenital fools, or the young rascal is unarguably the biggest fool that ever held a sub-cabinet appointment in the history of postcolonial Ghana.
Deliberately and conveniently forgetting the recent shameful mega-fest and hero’s welcome rally held by Anlo-Ewes in the Volta Regional Capital of Ho, in a Dionysian celebration of the “gargantuan” Woyome heist of some $51 million of public funds, Mr. Okudzeto-Ablakwa decided to, literally, go to town on the Kennedy Agyepong counter-tirade against deliberately cultivated tribal chauvinists of the ruling National Democratic Congress (See “NPP Will Pay for Endorsing, Celebrating Ken Agyapong – Ablakwa” MyJoyOnline.com 4/21/12).
Maybe somebody ought to remind Mr. Okudzeto-Ablakwa, who was evidently too young when Messrs. Rawlings and Kojo Tsikata abducted and summarily executed and callously conflagrated the mangled remains of the three Akan Supreme Court judges on June 30, 1982, that this hitherto unprecedented heinous crime that shocked the civilized world, actually culminated in the successful “pacification” of Ghana’s ethnic majority and enabled the Anlo-Mafia butchers and savages to dominate our national political landscape and culture for some two protracted decades!
What is more, the abject failure of the victimized ethnic group to bring condign justice into the bloody courtyard of the Anlo Mafia has emboldened Mr. Rawlings and his certified posse of unconscionable butchers and assassins who continue to thumb their nose at the majority populace of the country. Indeed, while admittedly despicable, what is shameful is definitely not the Assin-North MP’s incendiary call for a logical politics of swift retaliation, largely rhetorical, to be certain, but the brazen refusal of political knaves like Mr. Okudzeto-Ablakwa to accept the obvious and mend their evil ways – and that obvious phenomenon is, of course, the steely determination of Ghanaians of Akan and Ewe-Akan descent never to be summarily reduced to chopped liver by the Anlo-Ewe Mafia ever again!
Indeed, if anything at all, contrary to what Mr. Okudzeto-Ablakwa would have his audience believe, first-time eligible Ghanaian voters will be more than smart enough, come December 7, 2012, to wisely and swiftly vote out a veritable terrorist and neo-fascist juggernaut like the ironically named National Democratic Congress that continues to impenitently pursue a politics of cheap propaganda rhetoric and raw intimidation.
*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English, Journalism and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City. He is Director of The Sintim-Aboagye Center for Politics and Culture and author of “Danquah v. Nkrumah: In the Words of Mahoney.” E-mail: [email protected].
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