CanoeVibes with Anny Osabutey: Borborbor dance not for slim fit buttocks?

Politics in Ghana is very strange and complex, especially under this republic of ours.

It is fine for people to campaign for power but once it is won and the spoils are about being distributed, a section of the society then begins to identify who is an “indigene” and who is not- and why a particular position must be  preserved for an indigene from their communities, and not those considered to be outsiders, or not part of their tribes.

And not even when the said “non-indigene” might have been born and lived in a particular community all his or her life, contributed to the development of the area(s), including looking after children of some irresponsible indigenes who spray their sperms in every vagina and after months of maturation, call on the same non-indigene to help look after the matured sperms.

Ebi Bright

The ruling government has began rolling out names of persons to head Metropolitan and Municipal Chief Executive offices; but as it has always been the practice, some are raising questions about particular candidates they insist are not part of their tribe and should not be given the job.

They are not saying the person is not qualified, or does not have the capacity to perform. They simply want somebody from their tribe.

I saw a video online of some suspected persons said to be priestesses from the Tema Newtown area insisting their preferred candidate to lead the Tema Municipal Assembly (TMA) must come from their own stock.

They want a Ga. There is an ongoing rumour that Ebi Bright, the NDC’s parliamentary candidate for Tema Central, who is in court to affirm her as the rightful winner of the elections,  has been nominated to head the assembly.

It is not official but some of these priestesses and a so- called youth group in the area, say they want somebody from their own stock to represent the assembly, and not her. She is a a foreigner I heard one woman said so in a trending video.

Utter rubbish, to say the least. The irony is, these same NDC sympathisers had no issue collecting campaign items from a  non-indigene who went toe-to-toe with the now opposition NPP  in their stronghold.

To their mind, they believe she’s only fit for the campaign, but not good enough to lead the Assembly. They had no problem collecting T-shirts with her image on them, food and other items at campaign rallies but pathetically, have issues with her heading the Assembly. They want their own person.

Is it about development of the area, or an indigene heading the Assembly but doing nothing that they want? The last time indigenes from Tema Newtown were made Chief Executives at the assembly, how much development did they bring to their communities? How many of their own people did they help?

The Tema enclave is cosmopolitan and inasmuch as Tema Newtown is traditionally known and influential, the indigenes must recognise that being a mayor does not solely rest on one coming from their area; there is more to it.

And to those who are behind these so-called youth groups, the priestesses and the folks doing this, stirring up unnecessary issues where there are  none, in 2028, are they going to look into the eyes of Ebi Bright and ask her to represent them as a candidate?

I am not ignorant of the details in the constitution about representation but some are stupidly taking this too far; and it is about time their blackmail is ignored.

We cannot build our societies with this mindset. I recently saw a post which questioned why the current occupant of the Tema Development Corporation (TDC) is not from the GaDangme stock.

Interestingly, a non-GaDangme occupied the same office in the previous administration but the person who made the post had no issue with that one. Just do the math. Why should it always be about our tribesmen and not the one who can do the job?

Our communities are suffocating and instead of coming together and fighting for development, we rather allow selfish and greedy persons use us to achieve their parochial interests. Why must it always be us?

I am not by this suggesting an indigene cannot do the job, but in situations where a non-indigene who has lived all his life in a community is fit for the job, why raise irrelevant issues to stampede the appointment?

We complain about racism in one breath, but perpetuate the very same cancer on ourselves. Why can’t we adopt the Borborbor dance approach, which offers opportunities for slim fit buttocks to showcase their skills in an environment where big buttocks aready thrive?

PS: This dance is believed to have been originated by Mr. Francis Kudzo Nuatro in the 1950s. It’s a cultural and a social recreational dance performed by the Ewe people in the Volta Region of Ghana, an area north of the Anlo Ewe of southeastern Ghana and some Togelese.

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