What another 4 years of Akufo Addo’s rule portend for Ghana

Opinions on Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Columnist: Abdul Hakeem Iddrisu

2020-10-14

Ghanaian colleagues, say what you want, “if the lessons of history teach us anything, it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.” It is a pity that many intellectuals in our beloved country seem to have sacrificed their intellectualism on the altar of tribal intolerance, and put their blows on automatic pilot every two elections, voting candidates for the part of the country from which they come. And by intellectuals, I mean all the academically certified Ghanaians who refuse to consider the quality of the candidates’ leadership, but vote with their emotions!

Just in the last election, President Akufo Addo at the launch of the PNP Campaign Manifesto in 2016 said: “In this election, we are faced with an opponent with unrestricted and unprincipled access to state resources, with seemingly unlimited cash, who you are confident that they can buy your vote. If they can’t, they will try to intimidate you. That is the opponent we have in this election ”.

My fellow Ghanaians, what are we seeing today four years after President Akufo Addo assumed leadership of this country? “Unrestricted and unprincipled access to state resources.”

A few days ago, armed robbers broke into West Mamprugu to get their share of the money that the vice president went to distribute.

Isn’t it comforting that the leadership table can turn into a jiffy to expose the shenanigans of the PNP as a “Now Plundering Party” that has been in the impious business of devouring the vaults of our national treasure at such breakneck speed within four years who accused the former president of? It is no wonder that Abraham Lincoln once said that “almost all men can endure adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him POWER. When I look at President Akufo Addo and his limitless slideshow of abuse of power in the face of Ghanaians, I throw a punch into the air and slam my chin to my chest in confirmation of what Lord Acton is said to have said: “Power it corrupts, and absolutely power corrupts absolutely ”!

President Akufo Addo even went ahead to quote 1 Samuel 17: 45-47 by saying what David (peace be upon him) is said to have said to Goliath: ‘You come to me with a sword, with a spear and with a spear. javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. Today the Lord will deliver you into my hand, so that the whole earth will know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly will know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will deliver you into our hands.

In Shaa Allah, the battle is still the Lord’s. Because the arrival of President Akufo Addo is very regrettable, a great electoral miscalculation on the part of the Ghanaians. It is merely a reflection of what Ernesto Guevara, friend of Fidel Castro from Cuba, had observed. The former president of the National Bank of Cuba said that “cruel leaders are replaced only for the new leaders to become more cruel!

Literally whining to become president, the man (President Akufo Addo) who would become Ghana’s nightmare of the future had the following words to mislead gullible Ghanaians into their current uncertain future situation: “They have more money than we do. But the battle is the Lord’s; They have more outboards, more roofing sheeting, more laptops, more sewing machines to give away, but the battle is the Lord’s; They have more giant billboards than we do, but the battle is the Lord’s. “

Finally, the long-awaited political Methuselah concluded his extravagant speech by saying: “In truth, however, Ghanaian compatriots, we are many and they are few and the battle remains the Lord’s.”

Ghanaian colleagues say that history is more than the path left by the past. Because it influences the present and can shape and change the future. Four years ago, a man who proposed his own concept of competition, President Akufo Addo, who relied heavily on excessive indebtedness, suddenly became the King Kong of indebtedness.

Today, the man who was transfigured, transfigured and transfigured at the same time, in the angel Gabriel (the Holy Spirit), if not in the God attached above all blemish and who appeared enjoying the supernatural competition of omniscient praise, has been turned into a colossal disgrace to our nation. Your competent leadership yardstick or gauge is a classic case of shooting yourself in the foot! Your benchmark for good governance defined by Vice President Bawumia as “exchange rate exposure due to weak fundamentals” is once again a spectacular boomerang!

The fight against corruption that required the creation of the most useless folder in our history, the Special Prosecutor, has been a saga of pain since its infamous inception in 2018! There is nothing in the national kitty like our collective and community, yet Ghanaians have not the faintest idea of ​​the whereabouts of the 140-odd billion cedis that Grandpa Akufo Addo borrowed on their behalf!

The guinea fowls that supposedly flew to Burkina Faso or Guinea, the hometown of guinea fowls, are without a doubt much better than the sudden disappearance of billions of cedis loaned on behalf of all Ghanaians in pockets unfathomable of the political mafias of the presidency of Akufo Addo. This unprecedented daylight robbery from Ghanaians certainly should never be forgiven!

Today, unless you are an uncritical tribal gladiator or one of the few Ghanaian beneficiaries of the current official theft who has vowed not to upset the fingers that feed them, every honest Ghanaian who is not a fool knows the corruption under The presidency. Akufo Addo has been legendary with a greater tendency to make even Jesus of Nazareth blush!

Four more years for Grandpa Akufo Addo means mortgaging and literally stealing the future of this country. What I mean, the destruction of our educational system, the destruction of our environment with your bloody deal with infamous SynoHydro. It means bringing Ghana back to HIPPC. The death counted that we are witnessing today is the tip of the iceberg. Give President Akufo Addo four more years and Ghana would have turned into a slaughterhouse. This man is “small but with a big heart”: big enough to accommodate all the political acrimony. Please, we must not give President Akufo Addo a chance for revenge.

Four more years means that the sufferings of the free upper secondary school administrations increase and the scam of the Ghanaian parents continues unabated; Four more years means that only the party’s “food soldiers” could enter the Nursing and Teacher Training Schools (TNTC) due to highly unequal payment of allowances. It means that, in the next four years, a large number of Ghanaians would have been denied access to TNTCs. How many apprentice teachers and nurses the country would have lost. Because of one man’s populist agenda?

Ghanaian comrades, the speed of reaction with which our money has been devoured by this gigantic government under the supervision of President Akufo Addo is eloquent testimony that this ship full of ministers and their ringleader has no good intentions, but a government sinister and gruesome. his sleeves. Let them go with the money, their second agenda for which they share their loot, from us to us must not see the light of day in the name of God!

Four more years means that in the next two or three generations, Ghanaians will live a life of debt and will work harder, harder than us, to pay the consequences of a man’s greed!

If Ghanaians compromise their intellect on December 7 and allow President Akufo Addo four more years, it means that Ghana will go up in smoke on the political pyre in self-demolition and flogging sentenced to lifetime servitude. It means more business collapse and job replacements, confused with job creation, which would continue to increase.

Four more years of Akufo Addo mean more dubious financial sector clean-up exercises. Which means more depositors lock-in funds are just the beginning. Because the government’s empty slogan to be Beyond Aid would keep it dependent on indigenous banks for loans to undertake fraudulent projects through which most of our scarce resources are diverted! This choice is the decisive factor in our rise or fall as a country, forever. Ghanaians probably have the last chance to decide the brighter future of their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren by voting for President Akufo Addo. It is a danger to our successes in the medium and long term.

And Ghanaians don’t need a political sorcerer or witch doctor on December 7 to tell them which candidate has found solace in corruption and who is determined to erase their children’s future in order to consolidate their selfish achievements and not ours.

For once, let’s vote for the rescue of Mother Ghana from a very corrupt and fierce enemy! It is “community work”, it is a rescue mission!

Long live Ghana

God bless us all.

Abdul Hakeem Iddrisu

(The young professor)