All is done. Nana Akufo-Addo is the President of Ghana. All those who said he can never be president, all those who said he was a dwarf, all those who said he had cancer, all those who said he was a cocaine dealer, all those who said all of that, I am sure you now recognize that God is the giver of life.
I watched the video of Alhaji Asuma Banda proclaiming that Nana Akufo Addo can never become president. He said one must have a certain structure, and be intelligent in order to become president, and that Nana Addo does not have the required structure neither is he intelligent, therefore...
I watched Nana Akua Amoah (Mzbel) denigrating Nana Akufo-Addo in such insulting and despicable manner, as if she would have vomited him out if Nana Akufo-Addo was her father. I saw Fred Agbenyo push so many unprintable materials about Nana Akufo-Addo on social media.
I remember the gentleman who wrongly accused Nana Akufo-Addo of urinating on a Mosque. Abubakari Rufai, 32-year-old, accused Nana Akufo-Addo, of urinating on the walls of a mosque at the Yagbonwura Palace in Damango, thereby defiling the mosque. He later came out to confess that it was a fabrication, but the harm had been caused. In less than a year after the wrong accusation Abubakari unfortunately died of urine retention.
I remember Peter Boamah Otukunor, early this year, was reported to have accused Nana Akufo-Addo of killing his own pregnant wife. He is reported to have accused Nana Addo of clubbing his then wife to death in a fit of rage following a misunderstanding between the couple.
And I agree with a portion of a statement which came from Nana Addo that “it is tragic that our politics should sink to such levels that there appears to be nothing sacred, nor any respect for our cultural values in our society; and people would want to use the death of a loved one to defame a political opponent."
Eventually, six months after this report, Peter Otukunor’s wife, at a very young age of 30, unfortunately died.
All these I saw, and each time I saw these, I pitied my own children. That in the name of politics, people who would have loved you, in the name of politics, people who would have loved to be your friend. That in the name of politics people who you could have fed, such a friend could pick a knife and run it through your soul, and kill you.
Sometimes I feel it when people who, ordinarily, but for the money they have stolen, would have no place in the pit, such people, in the name of politics, coils their teeth, and they coil their tongues, and recline their necks, straightens their back, and with guilt lost in their heads, spews curses on themselves.
It is ok to accuse someone of not being peace loving, if you think he is not. It is ok to accuse him of not demonstrating good leadership, if you think so. It is ok to accuse him of being corrupt if you think the man is corrupt, and it is ok to point out his weaknesses if you think he has weaknesses.
But it is not ok to describe him as dwarf because of his height. It is not ok to ascribe diseases to him when you don’t know that for a fact, it is not ok to mock him of being infirm, because no one knows tomorrow.
I think Mzbel in particular should come out to apologize to Nana Addo. It is not about how NPP members are handling her; and I don’t endorse any such thing. No one should be allowed to hide behind politics to hurt another.
In my opinion Mzbel should feel morally compelled to apologies to a man who is fit to be her father, she should apologies to a man she mocked, to purge herself from a lifelong plaguing guilt, inner torments and weakness. At the moment I can predict she is physically weak, not because of what the boys are doing to her, but I could feel she has a certain realization that she went too far, she might have been carried away by her access to power and money, and she thought this day may never come, until this day came, and there is no one to protect her.
Anyway, that is all behind us now. The important thing is to govern. Make sure that you prove us all wrong. If our economy begins to thrive, if young people begins to have jobs, if you create policies that facilitates business growth and expansion, and businesses begins to create wealth, if bank borrowing interest rates comes down, and if I can easily go to the bank and borrow money, then I will know that you lived your life.
If you begin to allow state institutions to function neutrally, if you get rid of all the current politically biased appointees of state institutions, and replace them, not with your party people, but with properly recruited neutral individuals for state institutions such as EOCO, and allow them to function not as a propaganda wing of your party, then you will be seen as a father for all, and you will be loved.
It is institutional politicization and propaganda that allows individuals such as Collins Dauda’s brother, Naaba Dauda, to still walk about as a free person. How can someone who boldly told the world that he and whoever he knows, kills human beings all the time, and that he is not afraid to kill, how can such a person sits in the comfort of his home while we jail another person, who, because of hunger, merely went to steal cassava?
Anyway, that is what happens when the institution, and in this case Ghana Police Service, which is supposed to be neutral and to protect all of us, is by itself transformed into a political stooge, the result is that the police is afraid of its own self, the Ghana Police Service then becomes a mere tool in the hands of the oppressor.
After voting I left for Europe, so I have not been privy to any of the post election celebrations. But the media has helped me see wild jubilations throughout Ghana, of NPP people celebrating their victory. I don’t know what exactly the celebration is all about. Is it about the mere fact that the NPP has won the elections, or it is about the hope that the new government will be able to transform the economy for a better Ghana? Or is it about the opportunity for a new crop of people to steal our money?
I would think that the celebration is about the new hope, of the improvement in the economy that will give individuals the opportunity for jobs and for business expansion. But if it is about the shift in the opportunity to steal our money, then forget it. I expect Nana Akufo-Addo to walk the talk, and to make corruption a very unattractive business in his government.
What we all have to remember is that, one day, very soon, God will answer all of us. One day, and that day will soon come, we will all appear before God, and we will give account, of the way we felt about ourselves when we got power. The little boys and girls, people with unknown life expectancy, children who should be humbled by the power we gave them, who, instead, used the power to spit insults while stealing our monies.
Thieves rapped in politics, one after the other, used their offices to steal big monies, and it did not matter how many children were dying out of their thievery, it did not matter to them the number of pregnant women who died due to lack of drugs. Insofar as it benefitted them, they cruised in V8 bought for them, and fuelled for them with our monies, and used these cars to insult us in the face, and raped our country. None of them will die, all of them will live, and all of them will answer.
Source: James Kofi Annan/ email: [email protected]
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Afrikatu Kofi, am NPP but want to say I heard about you and like your patriotism. Thanks for supporting Nana Addo.He is the president now so we hope for the best for the nation. Mr Annan, thank you for a great article.
I have read with uneasiness and dismay a story published on Ghanaweb with the disturbing title : Bad Day for Akufo -Addo: but Mahama goes to his rescue, which quoted the Enquirer newspaper in Ghana as its orignal source and supposed to have been written by one Patrick Biddah. The path on which Ghanaian politics is heading now is quite unfortunate and very much worrying and not healthy at all.Why on earth will a huge personality like Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo not been seen or acknowledged at this years Odwira festival in Akuapim?Who extended the invitation to Nana Addo in the first place?The last thing I am praying for is that the destructive nature of Ghanaian politics now which has eaten into all aspect of the Ghanaian life would spare at least our sacred Ghanaian Cullture and Chieftaincy Institutions of this kind of political influence and negative impact. But it seems Ghanaians are so consumed in politics now that they pay no much attention to other important things or news happening elsewhere.So I will like to bring to your attention that, The African Courier - an influential and international Afrikan magazine based in Germany has in its current issue chosen 4 respectable Ghanaians as amongst its BEST OF AFRICA 50 KEY PERSONALITY AND ACTORS DRIVING THE PROGRESS OF THE RISING AFRICAN CONTINENT .The selected 4 huge personalities from Ghana are Baffour Ankomah the famous editor of Llondon based New African magazine, former president Kufuor,Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo and Ozwald Boateng the internationally acclaimed fashion designer.As a Ghanaian myself representing The African Courier magazine in Prague and estern Europe,I was consulted on the inclusion of these great 4 personalities from my homeland and I agreed and supported the editor Femi Awoniyis selection and decision I should say a bit to his surprise because he knows i am an incurable Nkrumaist. But I have massive respect for Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo for his great contribution to the development and enrichment of Ghanaian politics and democracy.I like Nana Addo even more for the fact that despite his high level of western education he still bears a pure Ghanaian and Afrikan name and speaks fluently several Ghana languages including Hausa. I also strongly believes that whatever the past mistakes were we the new generation have the benefit of history to right the wrongs.For this reason i consider all the BIG SIX as pioneers who played vital,fruitful and constructive roles in various ways in making modern Ghana. So I think whatever the historical challenges that existed and impeded the peaceful and harmonious coexistence bewteen the Nkrumaist Family and the Danquah-Busia Family should be of the past and bygone.The Osagyefo himself did not envisage Afrikans as enemis to each other.So let us forge ahead in unity and tranquility for our common good devoid of any destructive politics which is a borrowed culture anyway. We are in Unity and Solidarity for the Creator,Country and Continent. Afrikatu Kofi Prague 14/10/2014
Great and thoughtful piece again from the Winnebarian- Simpa Opayin.\ou see, IT ALWAYS SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL IT IS ACCOMPLISHED.By my own unique life experience I have developed the attitude and philosophy that: NEVER OVER ESTIMATE ANYONE AND DONT UNDER ESTIMATE NO ONE because life is full of surprises and ups and downs.Using my own life experience,I was born into a rich family during the NKRUMAH era.In the early 60s how many people even owned a car in Ghana but I was driven to a posh nursery school in my fathers car.The OSAGYEFO was overthrown in that unfortunate coup in 66.After sometime we went into extreme poverty how myself and my siblings managed to get some decent education was a miracle.The total simplicity of my life style and respect for others is borne out of my deepr understanding of the dynamics in life.I have always loved and respect NANA ADDO even though I dont belong to the NPP but from PanAfrikanist point of view which I am I love and respect every Afrikan especially the elderly.On 14th October 2014,I wrote a short piece in defence of NANA ADDO to some senior journalists and media houses in Ghana.I had read a story about how NANA ADDO was disrespected at the festival in Akuapem.I felt so sad that day that,I had to write what I wrote.In a second post, I will share with you what I wrote then.
Indeed. Nana Addo story is a lesson in Faith in God
What a ***barred word*** piece
I love reading this. Thanks Mr Annan.
I really appreciate this piece, We must be watchful of our utterances. Those who said "over their dead bodies" to see Akuffo Addo to become president, we pray they don't die before 7th January or immediately after he is sworn into power.
Thats so wonderful Mr.Annan.God continue to left you high for such an amazing piece of words
Great piece Mr. Annan.
I watched the Asuma Banda video too. Led by Kwesi Pratt, the NDC put this video together in the months leading up to the election, to vilify Nana Addo and frustrate his presidential ambition. But this is what God does. He does not consult the rich people of this world in order to make a poor person rich, nor does He obtain permission from the famous before he can bestow fame on the vilified. Nana Addo's presidency is a case study not only for political science students, but also for students of Faith! And oh, before I forget, God does not need an aircraft to lift someone high!