The African Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2015 tournament has come and gone, its smelly aftermath a potpourri of posers and a classic display of buffoonery by Sports Miniser Mahama Ayariga who has turned his back on decency.
The tormenting questions about how much he made from the Malabo trip he dreads so much will continue to haunt him, his newfound rendez vous with gutter rhetoric notwithstanding.
A man who rarely exhibited hubris before becoming a minister but now doing so gleefully without looking over his shoulder spawns a fresh footnote in the compendium of power and how power can effect an overnight change in persons who have always been humble, corrupting them absolutely.
For Mahama Ayariga to tell journalists that they pose useless questions is to present his underbelly for reprisal responses as we suspend the rules of etiquette and join him in the gutters of Ghanaian politics as nourished by his party.
It is the presence of this calibre of persons in government which has reduced our country to the appalling state it now is, we dare state without shuddering.
When in one breath you have a minister spewing such level of nonsense and in another a deputy speaker insulting businessmen and women for complaining about the power outages, the code for decrypting the Ghanaian conundrum is not difficult to come by.
It beats our imagination why most government officials under the incumbent dispensation consider themselves more nationalistic than the rest of us and would not think twice before heaping insults on persons more experienced than they about matters of state.
The just ended tournament is one which books the sports minister does not want anybody to pry into. Those who dare are persons he regards as foolish and do not mean this country well.
We do not need the likes of Mahama Ayariga to tell us how to love Ghana. Indeed, if loving Ghana is represented by the open thievery of the public kitty being witnessed under the government of which Mahama Ayariga is an integral part, then we beg to be different because we truly cherish being citizens of the bleeding nation.
Distressed about a possible probe into how the funds were managed, Ayariga is behaving like a wounded lion and sometimes over-reacting to simple questions pertaining to the stewardship of the officials who accompanied the national team.
We do not care a hoot about Mahama Ayariga describing those of us on the DAILY GUIDE as persons who do not mean this country well because when it comes to gauging levels of nationalism, this man does not come anywhere near us.
We work tirelessly for the country and do not put hands in the state pie as others do. It was lamentable hearing Mahama Ayariga talking loosely about his management of the AFCON funds. And to think that he was unready to brook any questions was unthinkable, more so from a learned gentleman who should know better.
Let Mahama Ayariga understand that we at the DAILY GUIDE would not use those filthy words he spewed on air. So repulsive did he sound on one of the networks that for a moment his host was taken aback at the unusual conduct of a minister.
Using the performance of the team as veneer for the financial misdemeanour being suspected will not move us one inch.
Declaring the tournament budget before departure is the order and to be insulted for merely calling attention to the anomaly-studded tournament sounds pathetic from a cornered bull.
The appearance of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) in the choreography of financial jigsaw does not make the murky story any clearer. Let Mahama Ayariga come again, we dare him.
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