Normalization of Social Deviance in Ghanaian Politics

The Normalization of Social Deviance in Ghanaian Politics: Varying Perspectives and Obenewaa’s Reflections.

Since when did scripted responses to lousy parliamentary questions become a benchmark to assessing the (in)adequacy of the nation’s current ministerial nominees? What kind of nation are we building when the Parliamentary Vetting Committee is flooded with panelists who are themselves stained with conducts that defy the basic stipulations of contemporary universal morality?

The lack of seriousness in the nation’s parliament reminds me of a monastery, where sexually-perverted monks are allowed to question depraved initiatees on alternative sex. Are they all not jammed in the cauldron of an unforgiving sin? In Ghanaian politics, the salacious pursuit of the “succulent tunnels” of innocent young girls, and married women, is becoming a problem, if not a fashionable norm.

The recent media publication on Mr. Kenneth Nuwosu’s sexual indiscretion, if true, is a microcosm of the rot that has engulfed, and continues to overwhelm the nation’s psyche. Matter of fact, “emape scenti no, adze bebia." Why do Ghanaians tolerate the morally obnoxious, and justify their eccentricity? As a citizen, I lament deeply over the many bad choices we have made by electing some human-caricatures to positions of trust. The laws they make affect our daily lives. Don’t they?

What were the underlying reasons for nominating Mr. Kenneth Nowosu if I may ask politely? What qualities and skills does he bring to the political equation? How does a government that prides itself on picking the nation’s best brains negate the very values it professes by nominating a scalawag, Mr. Nuwosu, whose unruly conduct spans across the entire Ho-Township and its environs? Maybe, Mr. Nuwosu sees his conferred political standing as a way to release some of his repressed biological urges, having remained celibate as a student while attending Bishop Herman Secondary School at Kpando. In my humble estimation, Ghanaian democracy is losing its moral credibility among the concert of civilized democratic nation-states.

Contrary to his many public theatrics, and his loud growls that could drown the barking of a Jack Russell Terrier, Mr. Nuwosu lack the natural patina required of an astute politician, and a policymaker. Matter of fact, his nomination, if approved by the Vetting Committee, will become one of the major policy blunders of the current administration, and I mince no words.

While I have no interest in national politics, and changing the course of history, I think that it will be hypocritical on my part not to add my voice to calls for the review of parliamentary ethics, their vigorous enforcement, and holding infringers to account.

Rather than discounting the pervasiveness of the moral deficits in the nation’s institutions, and labeling them as just one of many remediable human imperfections, the public must protest against fielding lawbreakers as policymakers. Afterall, if Mr. Nuwosu wants to become the new King Solomon of 21st Century Ghana, which I know he wants, he can do so at his personal expense, and not at the peril of the nation’s moral values.

In an era where the scourge of HIV/AIDS is posing a threat to national security, and teenage pregnancy is becoming a growing nightmare, to allow Mr. Nuwosu to become the Deputy Minister of Manpower would amount to offering him a “carte-blanche” to pursue his reprehensible moral (mis)conduct.

The inflexible enforcement of socio-moral norms in politics is crucial to our nation’s moral order, and survival, and it must not be negotiated at any cost by rewarding the many Nuwosus in national politics. The Parliamentary Vetting Committee must reject the nomination of Mr. Kenneth Nuwosu. I cry for my nation. Good day and cheers.