We have been following the voice of Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu since His Excellency President John Evans Atta Mills made public his new team as far as the second year of his four year better Ghana mandate is concerned, and all we can hear, is the voice of a man who has come to the realization that his “glory” days are over.
Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, the Minority Leader, and his group, have been weeping “maa maa maa” like babies who have lost the ability to suck their mothers’ breast.
From radio station to radio station, Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has been singing his monotonous dirge as regards the President’s decision to remove Hon Bagbin as Majority Leader, and send him to the Water Resources Works & Housing Ministry as the substantive Minister.
Kyei-Mensah Bonsu, in all his submissions, has not hidden how deeply sad and hurt he is with the reassignment of Bagbin.
We cannot run away from the fact that over the years, Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has most certainly built a healthy relationship with Bagbin and so will miss the presence of his friend in the frontline of the activities of Parliament.
But the truth of the matter as far as The Ghanaian Lens is concerned, is the fact that, Kyei Mensah-Bonsu is very sad because his close allies in getting Parliament to hold the Executive to ransom, will no longer be around to give him the impetus to do the kinds of things they did in the year gone by.
There is no denying the fact that Bagbin, E.T. Mensah, and John Tia, for obvious reasons, in the first year of the Mills Presidency, allowed Kyei Mensah-Bonsu and his NPP Minority to get away with lots of unacceptable conduct.
For a whole year, Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, Opare Ansah and co, held sway in Parliament and acted as if Parliament belongs to them.
The whole of last year, Bagbin and his Majority Group never held a single press conference to either counter the nonsensical effusions of the Minority nor tell a good story on behalf of Government.
At all times last year, Bagbin and his Group either sat idly by and watched Kyei Mensah-Bonsu and co act in a bellicose, whimsical and capricious manner, or goaded the Minority on to misbehave.
Indeed, even when the President was insulted for no apparent reason, Bagbin and co kept their mouths shut.
When Kyei Mensah-Bonsu had the impudence of an elephant looking like a kangaroo, to call the President a gangster, Bagbin and his Group allowed the Minority Leader to get away with his bellicose gangsterism.
Of course, with Babgbin leading the crusade to question the judgment of His Excellency the President, why would Kyei Mensah-Bonsu and co not have a field day insulting the President and referring to His Excellency as a “gangster?”
If you are in the habit of insulting your parents, why would your friends not also heap more insults on your parents?
For a fact, we heard Bagbin on Adom FM yesterday and we cringed at the things that he said.
When asked whether he was removed as Leader of the Majority because he was allowing Kyei Mensah-Bonsu to run roughshod over the Majority, Bagbin’s answer was most shocking.
According to Bagbin, Kyei Mensah-Bonsu is a very “intelligent” and makes very “good” submissions and so he Bagbin finds it difficult to counter him. Lord have mercy!!!
According to Bagbin, he has been in the shoes of Kyei Mensah-Bonsu before and so understands where the Minority Leader is coming from hence his stance not to take him on forcefully. Yesu Kristo!!!
You may not believe it but this was Bagbin’s line of talk.
Is it not ipso facto therefore that had Bagbin remained as Majority Leader, Kyei Mensah-Bonsu would have grown into a Frankenstein monster and eaten up the President and the entire NDC?
For those of us on The Ghanaian Lens, we are damn happy that Bagbin has been kicked out as Leader of the NDC in Parliament.
Of course, with the reassignment of E.T. Mensh and John Tia, there will be no old guard for Kyei Mensah-Bonsu and co to hold on to.
With the likely entry of Hon Cletus Avoka and his team, we are hoping that they will not also sell their body, soul and spirit to the NPP.
We have had enough of Bagbin’s lazy leadership and we are hoping that Avoka will add a lot of the NDC spirit to his leadership style and make sure that the extremely bellicose, whimsical and capricious Kyei Mensah-Bonsu is put in his right and proper place as Minority Leader and not strut around as if he is the Majority Leader.
The NDC does not belong to any individual a group of persons; the party belongs to the millions of Ghanaians worldwide who believe in the philosophy of the party and we shall not allow any persons, because of their selfish and greedy interests, to hold the party to ransom.
And Now that Bagbin has joined the ranks of the “sycophants and bootlickers”, we are waiting to see which part of the boot he will lick.
As for Hon Cletus Avoka, he will continue to have the full backing of The Ghanaian Lens until he makes a mistake, misbehaves like Bagbin, and allows Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu and his bellicose, whimsical, capricious and extremely irresponsible Minority to run roughshod over the Majority in Parliament.
Good riddance to the old guard, and a warm welcome to the new guard.