Hossana

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face – Macbeth

Hossana! And we enter the Triduum (three days of Jesus’ Last Supper of Thursday evening; the Friday Vigil and ending on Easter Sunday) marking Christ’s Passion, Death and Resurrection. It is a period of reflection and remembrance of the key events of the Paschal Mystery (Life, death, resurrection of Jesus).

So why not concentrate on Christology (nature and work of Jesus) or the transubstantiation (bread and wine changing into the body of Christ). So given the millions of Churches in the world, Jesus’ presence is felt everywhere? Let us not pretend to be as savvy in religion as Dr. Mensah Otabil who avers that “…about 95% of people who call themselves prophets in Ghana are “quacks, charlatans, crooks, psychists, necromancers. . . “Somebody starts a church has a few cockroaches and lizards… and puts chairs and tables for them.

The quacks have saturated the market…  I say this with the pure love of Jesus Christ. “ OR we don’t have to mimick the Bible – quoting ex-Finance Minister (name withheld), and urge people to read the synoptic gospels, and do penance for our multitudinous sin?

Let us go mundane, and do the quotidian, and ask what is happening between Lawyer Maurice Ampaw and Reverend Pastor Dr. Owusu–Bempah, A “mellowed” Maurice Ampaw will say: “Asofuo By their fruits ye shall know them”. Don’t worry if you can’t readily get the source of this quotation. Just look at the first gospel of the New Testament (Matthew 7:15-20 “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.”

Lawyer Maurice Ampaw accuses Dr. Owusu-Bempah and his “boys”, including Kwame Amoh of allegedly flirting with all the girls in their church, eii.? He adds: “If these are the kinds of people Mahama (President) has put his government under, then Ghana is doomed.” One of the “boys” of Dr.  Owusu-Bempah has called Maurice Ampaw FOOLISH (and he spelt the word in capitals).  No, let us pause here; except to hint that Prophet 99 alleges that Maurice Ampaw was living in a kiosk at Sukura, and at birth his head knocked the ground … and other things too dastardly to even write.

On the political scene, you will find that the NPP ship is like a vessel in unsteady hydrodynamics. The turbulence is simply explosive. Owusu-Bempah (NPP), not the pastor but the Deputy National Communications Officer of the NPP, calling

Dr. Bawumia a “bad candidate” who caused the defeat of NPP.  On Oyerepa FM, he stated that the NPP’s decision to pick Bawumia as the candidate for the last election  was a major factor in the disappointing voter turnout among the members: “For the first time, I met a taxi driver who is a member of NPP who told me that he voted for the NDC in the last election; he showed me  his party card, and the reason is that we didn’t take the right candidate for him to come and vote.

Go down there with a hidden camera and ask the ordinary people why they refused to vote. 2.1 million distance from voting because they did not approve of the Presidential candidate…” You will be tempted to ask: What research did Owusu-Bempah do to come to this conclusion?” Perhaps, this shows clearly that his pet candidate, Kennedy Agyapong is still on his mind.

Was it not Owusu-Bempah who would go round the country with Bawumia to campaign for him, in his capacity as Deputy Communications Officer? Have we forgotten that in March 2012 he was charged for publishing false news about the First Lady, Naadu Mills (as a member of Friends of Nana Agyemang Konadu – Rawlings FONKAR)? Bawumia would say with Prince Hal (Henry V to King Henry IV) – “Hide not thy poison with such sugar’d words; lay not thy hands on me; forbear, I say! Their touch affrights me as a serpent’s sting.”

Do we need to remind Ken Agyapong, as a soothsayer told Caesar: “Beware the Ides of March”?

This position is contradictory to Adwoa Safo’s (Dome Kwabanya ex-NPP MP) who exonerates Bawumia and rather blames the NPP for neglecting its own stronghold, particularly concerning road infrastructure as a major factor for the poor performance. Have people forgotten the Solomonic advice of Otumfuo to Nana Akufo-Addo when as President he went to Manhyia to “pay homage”.

As the lovable Otumfuo said in April 2017 Ghanaians voted during the 2016 election, based on how hungry and angry they were with the Mahama-led government that is why he lost the election. If you don’t perform to the expectation of Ghanaians, you will be kicked out … I know your competence: you will deliver … at this point in your life, you don’t need wealth – only fame – and legacy, but be careful with persons surrounding you, they are capable of undermining you… ” What better admonition did anyone need, for God’s sake!

But, if we say Dr. Amoako-Baah of the Political Science and History Department of KNUST is a great NPP icon, people may not understand us. Go to him at the Department; and he will pick a book authored by Dr. J. B. Danquah and lavish praises on him. Such a man, and because of his honesty, he will not have “cash” to distribute, NPP neglected him, disregarded his contribution, ignored his advice.

Other NPP stalwarts who come to mind are Dr. Frimpong- Boateng who insists: “I’m clean …” over the Report on Galamsey submitted to the government, and declined to come out openly on “Galamsey”… and also Dr. Nyaho-Nyaho Tamakloe who on the NPP’s overwhelming loss stated: “The people of this country have chosen clearly that they are sick and tired of this government and that is what brought the results …”

Dr. Amoako-Baah on TV3 stated: “We want to fix the party but those involved in the wrongdoing are the ones in charge. Do you think they will willingly give you a chance to chase them out? No, they won’t. Just leave the party for them and form a new one. The shortest way around this thing is to form a new party … If I was the chairman, I would have thrown him (Akufo-Addo) out of the party.

Because no president should be given any power to do such a thing. Campaign against your own party members… does the party belong to him…? Dr. Amoako-Baah slammed the NPP for “thievery corruption”… increase in money supply… destroyed the economy—President Addo selecting his own MPs, and would not sack Ofori Atta even though over 88 NPP MPs were advocating that cause of action… arrogant Akufo-Addo would not listen…

Dr. Amoako-Baah urges NPP members to leave NPP for the “corrupt people” and join a new party he intends to form, called the “New Patriotic Front”. Yes, we know of the “National Democratic Party” formed from the National Democratic Congress, which, thus maintained “National” and “Democratic”, is that the reason for retaining “New” and “Patriotic”? Well, “Patriotic” sounds good: “patriotic” to Ghana, not an individual, but wouldn’t “National” or “United” be better substitutes for “New”? — Just thinking aloud.

And the question is: what happens to the Prof. Mike Oquaye’s Committee Report? Compare – Maafo’s Report of 2020.

Thinking of wooing all the “defected” NPP members back? How many “mea culpas” will heal the wound?  Alan Kyerematen’s “Afrafranto” on our mind.!

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