The man surely has an axe to grind with the top brass at NPP. He firmly believes there are crack heads and drug mules within the party. And who can blame him.
I remember him very well during my days at Legon He is a fierc ... read full comment
The man surely has an axe to grind with the top brass at NPP. He firmly believes there are crack heads and drug mules within the party. And who can blame him.
I remember him very well during my days at Legon He is a fierce competitor and won't back down for anybody.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago
Dr. Kennedy did not explicitly state that NPP protects drug dealers. But he opened the door for this inference when he made the following irrelevant statement in reaction to a call made by an NPP member for his dismissal:
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Dr. Kennedy did not explicitly state that NPP protects drug dealers. But he opened the door for this inference when he made the following irrelevant statement in reaction to a call made by an NPP member for his dismissal:
"Personally, I have never used or sold illegal drugs. I do not even smoke. Why would anyone want to expel me when others who have committed all these infractions are members of the NPP in good standing?”
The above statement, tactlessly made in defense against the call for his dismissal, gave the opportunity for others to infer that drug sellers are at the very least, accommodated in the NPP.
The needlessness for such an outrageous proposition is not in doubt.
Couple that with the foolish title of his book, "Chasing the Elephant into the Bush", and you will conclude that here is a person who does not ponder his words long enough.
And his strident and long-running attacks on Akufo-Addo while predictably siding with his opponents leave open the suspicion that he harbors some ill-will against his own party.
The call to dismiss him from the party is stupid, and so are his own responses to occurrences within the party. Going forward, he can redeem himself by being more constructive and conciliatory...This explanation above is a small beginning.
NANA BEDIATUO NKWATABISA 10 years ago
Excellent advice-Dr SASMAN
Excellent advice-Dr SASMAN
Anokye 10 years ago
Listen to idiot talking.You called Dr Arthur's book foolish? You are rahter the most foolish stupid man on earth. The truth hurts. Who in Ghan is not aware that your Akufo Addo an dhis family members and the npp as a party is ... read full comment
Listen to idiot talking.You called Dr Arthur's book foolish? You are rahter the most foolish stupid man on earth. The truth hurts. Who in Ghan is not aware that your Akufo Addo an dhis family members and the npp as a party is not a drug party? Tell us how diplomatic passports got into the hands of the relatives of Akufo Addo,with they were using for drug trafficking.What about Amoateng? Idiots and tribal lunatics like you.
G. K. Berko 10 years ago
It is only when a Party Opens up for tolerance and diverse opinions on issues, even when the Party hierarchy has to be called out on some errors, that the members would get used to decorum.
When others take every criticis ... read full comment
It is only when a Party Opens up for tolerance and diverse opinions on issues, even when the Party hierarchy has to be called out on some errors, that the members would get used to decorum.
When others take every criticism, no matter how constructive, as undermining the Party and begin raining unspeakable insults on the critics, it generates a cascade of intolerance and belligerent defiance of one another. It takes a well-managed leadership, rising to the Flagbearer, to curb abuses that tend to eventually precipitate the very fears dreaded to rip the Party asunder.
The leadership has to be constantly engaging and encouraging of all members to be decorous. That is how maturity in Political discourse is established for the best of the Party to emerge.
Unfortunately, many of our folks with higher degrees than the average lead in that kind of demeaning, violent verbal reaction to others' opinions. Hence, many in the Party follow suit.
When others are charged with unproven misbehavior in the Party to the point of being tagged with condescending labels, all because they dared to voice out their disagreement with some general position, it threatens the very fundamental democratic fabric that holds the Party together.
Dr. SAS, would be the first to admit the above. So, I am worried that he so mercilessly 'spanks' Dr. Kennedy after the latter has been knocked down by others for being blunt.
Anyone reserves the right to disagree with his analytical review of why the NPP lost in the last elections, in his book. But that digression shouldn't call for his dismissal from the Party, or the attended visceral antagonism many have dealt him for that.
Someone must always risk taking the Party to task on its own activities and performance. That someone must not be above reproach, either. But the constructive debate must continue for the right set of principles to be established to run the Party to recurrent success.
Instead, we have been witnessing deeper and deeper divisions among leading NPP Party members and those elders that the young have been hoping to look up to in sustaining the ideals of the Party. Much of this debacle stems from perceived selfishness and certain claim to some exclusive right to lead the Party by some of its leaders. That sets the blame on a merry-go-round and not to the exclusive domain of Alan or Arthur Kennedy...
When the initial rejection of any such rights was expressed in the Party by the likes of Arthur Kennedy, it was not with any personal malice. But soon, Nana's supporters, in particular, took it that way and pursued all others that had indicated some kind of challenge to him for the Party's Flagbearer position.
This is primarily the source of the current chaos. We must admit. President Kufuor was pilloried by the Okoampa-Ahoofes and other Akufo-Addo supporters that he had preferred Alan to Nana. So what?
Why didn't those folks who have been violently opposing any challenge to Nana do so for the late Aliu Mahama, when he was dumped like a sack of potatoes, while it had long been the tradition that VPs are considered first in any Party inclination to choose a successor to a President the Party had produced?
We did not hear any ardent supporter of the late VP's jump on Akufo-Addo to dissuade him from seeking the Flagbearer in displacement of Aliu. Records abound on how various subtle games were rolled out by Nana's lieutenants, some of whom were serving Officials of the Party, like Jake, to offer him the Flagbearer on silver platter. But since that was not the core tenet of the Party's Constitution, and others opted to challenge him for the position, the vitriol against these daring opponents of Nana began.
It is the way Nana has, for long, even before the Primaries, carried himself around as the only member of the Party who deserves to be the Flagbearer until he wins the Presidency that has, largely, portrayed his internal challengers as vicious dream-busters of his that have to be stopped at all cost. This, woefully undemocratic coercive tactic to ensure Nana contested against no one, and for the third time cannot be swept under the carpet, while all others who still might not fully believe in his leadership get savagely attacked by his supporters.
We must not fear to voice out the hard truth. For many who are now at the throat of Arthur Kennedy and others for still questioning certain behaviors of the Akufo-Addo camp, it is more for the ultimate goal, and of risking NPP's defeat that they are mad at these other folks. But for quite a sizeable number who are die-hard supporters of Nana's, it is endless personal hatred for all who dare complain of Nana's team, or do anything that even remotely seem to endanger Nana's chances.
Sadly, it is the kind of response such supporters of Nana's emit to many of these issues that tend to aggravate the Party's cohesiveness.
I would have expected Nana, himself, to call an emergency meeting of all Regional and District and National Executives to exhaustively discuss this particular trend that is wreaking havoc in the Party. To such a meeting he could invite his opponents in the Primary and the former President, Kufuor, and bluntly sought for their avowed commitment to the Party's success in 2016, which would make it easier for his own success at winning the Presidency.
Nana has chosen to sit back and let his cohorts do the dirty work of splitting up the Party, and no one dares say anything about it, because, the Okoampa-Ahoofes would be up and ready to hack them off the Party.
It is time Nana conceded any pride and animosity keeping him silent to initiate real rapprochement with the others to stop the blood-letting, if he really wants to become the President under NPP.
And Dr. SAS and his like-minded stentorian Orators and intellectuals behind Nana ought to inspire other members to pursue that unifying path to Peace and progress, instead of continuing to blame all others but Akufo-Addo, before it is too late.
Long Live Ghana!!!
SEEK, Berekum 10 years ago
AND THIS BUTTRESSES THE ASSERTION THAT THE NPP PROTECTS DRUG PUSHERS .IN FACT, IT IS FULL OF DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS. COME TO THINK OF THR MIDGET, AKUFO ADO, AMOATENG AND SEVERAL OTHERS.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE77 PARCELS OF ... read full comment
AND THIS BUTTRESSES THE ASSERTION THAT THE NPP PROTECTS DRUG PUSHERS .IN FACT, IT IS FULL OF DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS. COME TO THINK OF THR MIDGET, AKUFO ADO, AMOATENG AND SEVERAL OTHERS.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE77 PARCELS OF COCAINE IN THE MV BENJAMIN SCANDAL?
Neutral Zone 10 years ago
Drugs are being legalized in the USA n will visit u soon. So stop the noise.
Drugs are being legalized in the USA n will visit u soon. So stop the noise.
Issah Sulemana 10 years ago
The issue at stake is your hypocrasy, hatred and your being vindictive. Why do you hate the Npp? Are you so empty-headed or fatuitous you don't know are that bitting insect in cloths of the Npp? The call was to dismiss you fr ... read full comment
The issue at stake is your hypocrasy, hatred and your being vindictive. Why do you hate the Npp? Are you so empty-headed or fatuitous you don't know are that bitting insect in cloths of the Npp? The call was to dismiss you from the party not on drugs. Whether you were a fierce competitor in ancient times does not answer the question. Moving forward with who? You can run forward with the NDC where you fit perfectly as a fiddle.
Yaw Ohemeng 10 years ago
It is very rich for Arthur K to be protesting this way. His whole political career has been spent thriving on the twists, by NPP opponents, of statements made by other NPP members.
His response to Amoako Baah was if he (Am ... read full comment
It is very rich for Arthur K to be protesting this way. His whole political career has been spent thriving on the twists, by NPP opponents, of statements made by other NPP members.
His response to Amoako Baah was if he (Amoako Baah) was an NPP Executive member. Instead of defending himself legalistically, by referring to the Party's constitution, Arthur K rather went to town on other members, who he deemed had committed crimes and misdemeanours ranging from insulting the whole party to tribalism to drug dealing and taking.
For me the inference was accurate. If someone has committed these crimes but yet the NPP has not expelled him/her (according to Arthur Kennedy) then it amounts to protection.
This shows that the choice of poor words is not the province of only some within the NPP leadership but also Arthur Kennedy. His 'puritanical' crusade is finally catching up with him.
You made those statements, and if on reflection, they were poor, go on and apologise.
OK 10 years ago
You have been playing with pigs and they are kissing. This response is very elementary coming from a doctor. In the end you still blamed the NPP even in this rebuttal.
You have been playing with pigs and they are kissing. This response is very elementary coming from a doctor. In the end you still blamed the NPP even in this rebuttal.
NDC AGENT PROVOCATEUR 10 years ago
......."Finally, our media must stop publishing garbage and help our nation move forward".
THE MEDIA WILL STOP PUBLISHING GARBAGE WHEN YOU STOP TALKING GARBAGE; THEY REPORT WHAT YOU SPEW OUT.
FOOL!
......."Finally, our media must stop publishing garbage and help our nation move forward".
THE MEDIA WILL STOP PUBLISHING GARBAGE WHEN YOU STOP TALKING GARBAGE; THEY REPORT WHAT YOU SPEW OUT.
FOOL!
SEEK, Berekum 10 years ago
NOW THAT THE STORY IS BAD AND IT GOES AGAINST THE NPP, IT IS A GARBAGE AND MUST NOT BE PUBLISHED. SHAME UNTO YOU ALL
GOD WILL SURELY PUNUSH YOUR EVIL DEEDS.
NOW THAT THE STORY IS BAD AND IT GOES AGAINST THE NPP, IT IS A GARBAGE AND MUST NOT BE PUBLISHED. SHAME UNTO YOU ALL
GOD WILL SURELY PUNUSH YOUR EVIL DEEDS.
Miss Miracle, Essex 10 years ago
God will punish everyone's evil deeds. It's seem we have forgotten about the Ametefe case....
God will punish everyone's evil deeds. It's seem we have forgotten about the Ametefe case....
Andi Suley 10 years ago
the title of the article is misleading and twisty.
the title of the article is misleading and twisty.
The man surely has an axe to grind with the top brass at NPP. He firmly believes there are crack heads and drug mules within the party. And who can blame him.
I remember him very well during my days at Legon He is a fierc ...
read full comment
Dr. Kennedy did not explicitly state that NPP protects drug dealers. But he opened the door for this inference when he made the following irrelevant statement in reaction to a call made by an NPP member for his dismissal:
...
read full comment
Excellent advice-Dr SASMAN
Listen to idiot talking.You called Dr Arthur's book foolish? You are rahter the most foolish stupid man on earth. The truth hurts. Who in Ghan is not aware that your Akufo Addo an dhis family members and the npp as a party is ...
read full comment
It is only when a Party Opens up for tolerance and diverse opinions on issues, even when the Party hierarchy has to be called out on some errors, that the members would get used to decorum.
When others take every criticis ...
read full comment
AND THIS BUTTRESSES THE ASSERTION THAT THE NPP PROTECTS DRUG PUSHERS .IN FACT, IT IS FULL OF DRUG PUSHERS AND ADDICTS. COME TO THINK OF THR MIDGET, AKUFO ADO, AMOATENG AND SEVERAL OTHERS.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE77 PARCELS OF ...
read full comment
Drugs are being legalized in the USA n will visit u soon. So stop the noise.
The issue at stake is your hypocrasy, hatred and your being vindictive. Why do you hate the Npp? Are you so empty-headed or fatuitous you don't know are that bitting insect in cloths of the Npp? The call was to dismiss you fr ...
read full comment
It is very rich for Arthur K to be protesting this way. His whole political career has been spent thriving on the twists, by NPP opponents, of statements made by other NPP members.
His response to Amoako Baah was if he (Am ...
read full comment
You have been playing with pigs and they are kissing. This response is very elementary coming from a doctor. In the end you still blamed the NPP even in this rebuttal.
......."Finally, our media must stop publishing garbage and help our nation move forward".
THE MEDIA WILL STOP PUBLISHING GARBAGE WHEN YOU STOP TALKING GARBAGE; THEY REPORT WHAT YOU SPEW OUT.
FOOL!
NOW THAT THE STORY IS BAD AND IT GOES AGAINST THE NPP, IT IS A GARBAGE AND MUST NOT BE PUBLISHED. SHAME UNTO YOU ALL
GOD WILL SURELY PUNUSH YOUR EVIL DEEDS.
God will punish everyone's evil deeds. It's seem we have forgotten about the Ametefe case....
the title of the article is misleading and twisty.