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A ba ka de! For the second time in five tries, the coup man�s coup did not succeed as his hero, Ata mortuary man, passed on. In the dog eat dog affair, he with she who born dog, had the dog born out-cheat in a three-to-ninety-seven ratio. Ironically, congresspeople, heretofore of the born dog plus the dog borns but now dog borns, are crowing all over as having put together the best-ever organized congress in Africa a la moon talk of the best president in Africa. Psychically, they like talking better. But, of course, if you can never be the best because you always do too little to make you even better, you go about congress self-exalting as the best. You talk best for yourself when your performance is anything but better. Gloating over reducing a 2008 7.3% (without oil and current cocoa and gold peak prices) GDP to 5.9% in 2009 and inching it to 7.7% in 2010 as a great achievement is farcical. If in coup ways, you assemble one thousand seven hundred police folk with tanks and water cannon and soldiers and all that in a motherland with a total of one thousand eight hundred service people recently for one function and you tell me you are the best organized, I will tell you my office is better organized than that. Congress has spent, and is still spending, its entire mandate on electioneering. I say, shame on anything and everything congress for the dissipation of the motherland�s resources so ridiculously. You continue to dzi wo fie asem. I implore my compatriots to ask themselves whether they chose you to dzi wo fie asem or to help put food on the table and pay school fees. Old dogs are beyond new tricks. Born dog begatter of the dog born is older than the born dogs. So while the decamped capo taught the dog born new technologically savvy tricks, the techno-phobic born dog couple hang on to uncompetitive outmoded tricks. Remember the born dog team has the two congress capos who managed murdering judges and getting away with it. I heard one of them used a pen recorder to dispatch an American diplomat. Heads together, they revised congress intimidation tactics, multiplying police and soldier presence to ridiculous levels while misapplying CCTV camera technology to frighten voters that their so-called secret vote was being watched. Deepening intimidation, those voting were asked to photograph their vote with the mobile phones they had been provided as part of the incentives I call, with the agreement of many of my compatriots, bribery. My compatriots, as all this wanton, careless and callous spending (five thousand cash per delegate) went on, my stipend for June, a retiree�s mite, had not been paid. It was paid on July 11. Match the act with the promise in December 2010 to pay public sector workers on the twenty-fourth of each month; surely another of the never-delivered-too-many-congress promises! Horrifyingly, the man opened his congress speech saying he was elected to put food on the table and ensure that school fees are paid. This is the same man who says he never promised to put any money into any pocket. Putting money into people�s pockets is giving them jobs; and paying school fees assumes money in the pocket. Now, you see why those words are despicable. And if you haven�t thought about the origin of all the money they were spraying all over the place, it all came from your pocket as tax money, and from the gold, cocoa and oil nature has blessed us with. Congresspeople think those earnings should not go into capitation grant. They think school feeding is only for congress women organizers. The money should not improve metro mass transportation, or beef up the NHIS so that it doesn�t die, or spread out LEAP. The major Kufuor road projects are not worth completing. Congress believes the best way to spend our money for development is to take as much of it for themselves and spend the rest campaigning permanently for votes be it in a contest against a candidate of little consequence for party nomination or for a second term they don�t deserve. Coup number five, unlike the success of June 4 or December 31, or conjoined December 28 and January 2, failed like May 15. Frighteningly, though, the coup mentality of cheating by intimidation in an election was deepened. I am sure, my compatriots, that many, many of you are asking whether the born dog has truly been eaten by the dogs he born. All told, though, rather than a congress of achievement, we have just witnessed a failed coup number five with heightened coup mentality; a coup attempt that saw the born dog outwitted in trickery by the dogs he born.