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Politics of Monday, 27 August 2007

Source: (kofi safo antwi, kofisafo66@yahoo.com,) the sun

Chiefs in Politics? Oh NDC!

Desperation may be quite an alarming phenomenon which may not be too bad all the same, except when the canker causes you to eat with your two hands. That is when and where society and the sane world detects that madness may not be too far away for the practitioner.

This far, the NDC best fits the bill for if indeed we do not die that early, we are likely to see the mouse ring the bell, and the cat play knick-knack in society’s drum.

What a load of rubbish we have on our hands from the camp of the NDC! If indeed they have nothing saying, they better button their lips which could do with a bit of dusting up already.

What? Chiefs being given the leverage to partake in politics? I swear to heaven’s missing angels that trouble may never be far from our doors. Already, look at the manner both chiefs and politicians are carrying on in the Ghanaian setting.

While local politics has come to be associated with selfishness, lies and tricks, chieftaincy has lost its spark and shine. Today in several Ghanaian settings and vicinities, it has become fashionable for two chiefs to exist fighting to rule over the same people and control the same society.

What the NDC is seeking to do is to double our problems by allowing chiefs to assume the political mantle. Can we imagine the nauseating and insulting calls dancing their ways through the airwaves right into the faces of our chiefs WHAM, like nobody’s business? Oh my God! Who the hell in the NDC gulped down a few bowels of banku and chose to wash it down with pito and suddenly, went over-the-top to dream carelessly by fashioning out this joke? Even God almighty who created heaven and earth chose to separate good from bad, and better from worst. No one individual should be given too much power to drill rubbish down our esophagus, for we are already choking. If the NDC would care to know, they had 11 years as dictators and eight years as pretentious democrats to fine-tune matters. Having failed with infantile men at the helm for 19 years, do they believe in the fibre of their being that, the present setting is a test ground for experiments? The NDC may never get a second chance to re-make a first sensible impression. In their case, the beauty and colour in the flower withered with the arrival of the fruit that has left a bitter after-taste in majority of Ghanaian mouths. All over the place, most chiefs are doing nothing other than selling lands meant for the development of the local setting for the benefit of the indigene. At the present time it is being done with reckless abandon such that one is tempted not to excuse even a single royal. And so the political business world be carrying the electorate and the subject to the death chamber, and opening up the gas.

The NDC is as wrong as two left shoes. It is simply not ready to take over the reins of government and in that instance it allows the NPP too much room to toy with our fate.

The last thing Rawlings and his henchmen must think of is to allow chiefs into politics. If indeed they thought it was going to boost their image, let them carryon.

Today Ghana has reached a stage where good is bad and bad is good. This far, the NDC need not compound the problem any further for us.- BY Careless Whisper