Onipa Ba

Yesterday (June 3rd, 2009) Ghanaweb.com reported a criminal prostitution scheme operated by a housemistress of Victory Senior High School in Kumasi and her friend. The scheme exploited the young girls at the boarding school as victims for the criminal enterprise. The name of the housemistress is Jennifer Kwakye and her friend and criminal partner is Johnson Kelly.

I am an individual who vehemently opposes the emergence of such destructive and negative foreign practices in the Ghanaian culture. The devastating consequences impact not only the individual victim but it also impacts national development at large. In the fragile economy of Ghana, a mere twenty dollars US$20.00 is a lot of money for a young girl and if any of these girls can make this amount of money per day selling her body, in place of pursuing education, what else would entice her to take her education serious? This shows the extent of vulnerability of these innocent girls and the need for society to protect them. In the long run, besides the destruction of the development of the individual, such negative culture would culminate in a loss of potentially bright medical, engineering or law students who could otherwise contribute very well to the development of the nation.

An important question that needs to be addressed is the national origin of the perpetrator and crime partner Johnson Kelly. Certainly, this is not a Ghanaian name. I cannot rule out the possibility that this individual could be from Liberia. Neither can I rule out the possibility that this person could be from Nigeria where the adoption of non-Nigerian pseudonyms in the commission of such nefarious crimes is a cultural norm. I cannot rule out the possibility that this individual is from somewhere else outside continental Africa, either.

All this leads to a point that I made at this forum and elsewhere, several times in the past. My point is that at least ninety per cent (90%) of every problem in Ghana at the moment can be traced to that bastard called JJ Rawlings for a number of reasons. First the PNDC/NDC/Rawlings entity constitutes a negative role model for the youth of Ghana. We are all aware of the lawless and murderous culture of this entity. For example, consider Tony Aidoo, one of the thugs in the gang moving around in society with a gun in his hand which he could fire at any body at all. It is the same practice that one sees in the ghettos, the slums and the streets of the United States among street gangs, hoodlums and thugs.

Second, because the NDC/Rawlings entity embraces and identifies with such negative practices, they indiscriminately admit all kinds of people into Ghana, particularly their equals in character. These non-Ghanaian social pariahs are responsible for most of the distasteful and un-Ghanaian practices currently going on in the country. Even in cases where one would be tempted to have sympathy on some of these groups of persons for the fact that they were displaced by war, one needs to evaluate the situation more critically. The war lords in those countries that caused the displacement of these persons were part of the broader network of unintelligent thugs with a common agenda of inflicting unrest on the West African region. The record shows that JJ Rawlings, current convict Charles Taylor of Liberia and the mastermind of the attempted coup d’état in Ivory Coast all had their terrorist training and funding thereof from one common source and evidence abounds on how Rawlings coordinated these criminal activities in these other West African countries. Only God knows why Charles Taylor has been incarcerated but Rawlings walks around as a free man. Be it a helpless people displaced by war or not, the criminal activities of the network of Rawlings and his West African trouble makers puts the Ghanaian at the losing end, whereby an influx of refugees into Ghana is created, some of whom are socially undesirable.

The latest beneficiaries of the indiscriminate admission into Ghana awarded by the PNDC/NDC/Rawlings entity are the Nigerians. I need not tell a long story of the globally recognized criminality and notoriety of Nigerians which has caused their exclusion from entry into most countries such as Vietnam. Even in countries where Nigerians can enter, they are severely restricted from a number of important economic activities, because of their criminal tendencies. I personally witnessed a well dressed Nigerian job applicant in a Seven-Eleven (convenient store) in a Northeast US city. The manager asked the Nigerian if he is one of those Nigerians who sit behind their computer and steal other people’s money, a crime dubbed 419. The Nigerian pleaded with the manager that he is not one of the criminals. I went to that store several times thereafter, but I never saw that Nigerian working at the store.

The Nigerian has no respect or patriotic sentiments towards his own country or goodwill towards his fellow countrymen and he takes the same practice to other people’s countries. The activities of Nigerian pimps and prostitutes are well known in most countries. The Nigerian would steal massive amounts of money designated for development projects in his/her country and eventually destroy the development of his/her country. By so doing they maintain a lavish lifestyle by local standards outside Nigeria. They then brag about their ill-gotten wealth and they do not realize that they are the laughing stock of their host countries. The reason is that their immense oil wealth has never translated into a proportionate national development because of the criminality of the Nigerian. While they destroy progress in their mother land and brag about their ill gotten wealth in the host countries, the host countries can boast of better amenities, roads, power supply, fuel supply, educational systems, law enforcement, portable water supply and many other factors which form the hallmark of a progressive and stable society, even though the host countries may be endowed with less national wealth.

Both within and outside the USA, I have often been confronted with the question as to why Nigerian males have very strong and unpleasant body odor that is, they stink. Although I have never been able to answer this question, it opens up another related and natural question. If the Nigerian men stink so badly, then how does it smell between the legs of Nigerian women? Perhaps, those Ghanaian men who try all kinds of things can fill us in on this question.

I remember the story of a very brilliant Nigerian who graduated with an engineering degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and immediately went home to help in nation building. The guy had bought a brand new Mercedes Benz which he took home. Shortly upon his arrival in Nigeria, while on his way to work one day, the guy was shot dead at close range and robbed of his Mercedes Benz. This is a monumental loss of a capable brain to any country. Many Nigerian graduates have told me about their fear of returning to settle home because of this danger in their country. How do you build a country with this dangerous climate? Do you want this in Ghana?

It is time the Ghanaian put his/feet down very firmly and insists that he/she wants the country to be run the way he/she sees fit and in his/her best interests.