The dilemma of a rhetorician - too much talk and little work

THE FRUSTRATED KWESI NDOUM SHRIVELS THEREOF

During the vetting of Paa Kwesi Ndoum, he really displayed to Ghanaians that he was up to the task of unleashing his incontrovertible heavyweight brainpower to whatever task was ahead of him to ameliorate Ghanaians from the economic doldrums in which Ghana finds itself.

Ndoum’s control over the Oyibo’s language was so captivating that he won the applause of his fellow lawmakers intermittently for his incisive recalling of economic figures, projections and justifications for past decisions and what have you. But if his performance is something to go by in real terms, then we can rightly say that Kwesi Ndoum is just another Sam Jonah who has dissipated the national coffers and decided to hedge himself with oratory just as Sam Jonah also hedged and mortgaged the lives Ghanaian children yet unborn, and used the proceeds to secure a generation of wealth for his progenies not even in Ghana but South Africa and beyond.

The comparisons go far beyond that. While they are both noted to have been brilliant students and hardworking gentlemen on top of their classes through school, their avarice and double-standard nature has caused the nation in many ways but this is not without the indelible slur on their reputations.

I vividly recollect when the NPP government took over the running of this country, Ghana, in 2001 and started throwing its weight about trumpeting they had the men, little did we know that all they were telling us was that they had men who could scoop of the national coffers to such an extent that people like Richard Anane could virtually turn Ghana Airways, for which Sam Jonah was beckoned to provide a lifeline , to his family business as the Director which could be operated from his bedroom in Accra and managed by his concubine, Alexo, in Oyibo’s America, because Anane wanted a security for his lineage in Ghana.

Laugh loud!!! These are individuals who take purgatives when they are too full, so that they can empty their bowels in order to create more room for what is left. Alas, Sam Jonah could not rescue the national carrier, so it went the way of the other national assets which have long been offered for paltry sums of money to certain politicians, their cronies and some greedy oyibos. But on top of this the man earned a diplomatic passport from a President who cannot see beyond his nose. Who knows, if the man Jonah had been able to rescue the national carrier from its mounting debt, they would have been a secured passage for his son from Ghana to the United States of Bush’s America. In fact, this would have helped the son to utilize our VIP and other diplomatic protocols at the father’s disposal to dispel the nosy FBI from detecting the Obuasi Kokonte. Sam, can you excuse me to use the word condolence to comfort you? I only know its use is more apt when someone is bereaved.

Anyway, lets get back to the issue otherwise I may digress forever. So Ndoum has also boasted of many credentials which turned him a success story at one of the biggest and profitable organizations in this country; I don’t remember if that was Pricewaterhouse or Delloitte. Whatever it was he had being a success story prior to his political prostitution and ‘stomatric politrick’.

For me, I will measure Ndoum by the last job he handled for corporate Ghana by deciding to finally break that unholy matrimony. Indeed, his Public Sector Reforms, which was criticized as waste of taxpayers money along the way has not been able to achieve anything meaningful. May be the man has been able to drive out goats, sheep and cows which loitered about in the ministry and kept them at from roaming the streets within the ministries and its environs. But if service delivery is something to go by, I took a short visit the DVLA recently and I must confess that it is worse than it was some 5 years ago.

Abrantie, please do you know what is referred to as Goroboys in Ghanaian parlance? They have quadrupled; they are all over the place and officials are ready to delay for as long as you refused to pass your business through these unscrupulous young men, and now even women, for three times the official price.

I then moved into the Ministries to see Kofi Brokeman and to see if he has now seen the light being preached about by the astute Ndoum, but to my utmost surprise Kofi is still in the wilderness stretching out his hands at the least opportunity for a bribe to even carry a file for the Director to assign without which you can go to hell and your file can rot.

At the Ghana Education Service, I met a young man whose application for a teaching appointment is still unattended to since the month of January because, in the words of the officer on that schedule, he thinks he is too wise to refuse to pay (bribe) what everybody is paying. This is a 28 year young man with a Master’s degree in one of the most complex disciplines--Mathematics—who is being denied a primary school to teach whereas the GES has over 20,000 vacancies? Do you see the paradox? In the abundance of water, the fool is thirsty.

Ndoum, to me, I think in all fairness, you must hide in your own closet and do an honest reflection over your political expedition in the last 7 or so years. You will be your own judge this time. I will not judge you a failure but let see what you think of yourself and what readers think of you.

I know the most frustrating dilemma for you now is how to coat your Presidential ambitions. In the first place, you have demonstrated to us the youth, who form majority of the voters, that you are not a man who can be trusted. From all indications, you are a progressive-left thinker who sold your conscience and joined the property scooping democrats who would stop at nothing to grab even what belongs the yet unborn. You are a complete sellout who deserves a long rest; there is nothing more for you to do than to take that deserved rest.

For Freddie Blay, he should stop confusing Ghanaians and deal with his own confusions and frustrations. They dine and wine with evil forces that oversaw the killing of their own Mobilla, may his soul rest in peace. You see why the CPP will finally collapse, if things continue to go the way they are going?

Now to my good friend Sam, what is the relationship between you and your old pals and mentors, Dr. Djato Rawlings and Tsatsu? May be you can bankroll them to influence their side of the political divide to lower their gun for the prisoner transfer bill to be passed for your son and Amoateng to be brought home to have their sentences converted into community service in your golden estate which is in the offing or at the new shopping mall around Tetteh Quarshie roundabout, otherwise these gentlemen will rot in jail.