By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

I don't know how he landed his post of Deputy Minister for Chieftaincy and Traditional Affairs, because Mr. John Alexander Ackon is the one who is rather "sickening" when he self-righteously suggests that the petitioners of the 2012 presidential election ought to play the disgusting role of good and obedient boys by lying flat on their backs and graciously accepting electoral theft, fraud and massive ballot-rigging as the fundamental essence of Fourth Republican Ghanaian democracy ("NPP's 'Cry' for Justice Sickening - Deputy Minister" JoyOnline.com/ Ghanaweb.com 8/27/13).

Indeed, the Chieftaincy Ministry's second-bananas sounds like an arrogant colonial administrator from the 1940s. And then, also, precisely how does Mr. Ackon think that "Peace" can prevail in the country in the gaping absence of "Justice"? Such backward thinking puzzles me in no mean way - and to be certain, I am deeply ashamed that such a morally retarded stomach-oriented man can be appointed a deputy cabinet member of any decent nation, let alone Ghana.

But, of course, I understand what this man who clearly does not seem to feel comfortable with indigenous African names means by keeping "Justice" out of the civil equation of "Peace." He simply wants us to preserve the cheating rules of the blighted democratic political game initiated by Chairman Jerry John Rawlings some two decades ago, in which these shameless butchers of judges do all the stealing in the polling booth, in criminal collusion with the rascally Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, while the faultingly decent leaders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and their supporters and sympathizers do all the complaining. Fat chance! The proverbial fool has wised up and mustered enough courage to restore the twin rule of "Justice" and "Peace" by any means necessary, including the resolute application of force as a legitimate instrument in the studious service of the same.

The Akan-Ghanaian ethnic majority have a riposte for Mr. Ackon; and it goes as follows: "The midnight grieving over the death of a neighbor's child is upsetting to our communal peace." It is our baby that has been callously crushed to death by the Knight Riders of the so-called National Democratic Congress (NDC), and we the leaders, members and sympathizers of the New Patriotic Party intend to rain Hell-fire and Brimstone on the pates of the Mahama posse, till Justice reigns like the mighty waters of Frau - not on the same banks with the rabidly anti-Akan Trokosi Nationalists, of course!

Maybe Mr. Ackon, that is the Chieftaincy Ministry's second-bananas, ought to have compared notes with Messrs. Omane-Boamah and Okudzeto-Ablakwa before presuming to make such an abject and complete fool of himself, by making the following no-brainer assertion: "The cry for justice by the NPP is sickening. It is as if the Supreme Court does not dispense justice." Needless to say, if the highest court of the land were sincerely envisaged to be a dispenser of justice by the key operatives of the National Democratic Congress, Chairman Kwabena Adjei would not have threatened to kidnap, bag up and suffocate Chief Justice Georgina T. Wood and her associates like a bunch of cats.

Then also, Mr. Rawlings would not have set the heinous example of executing the three Akan-descended Accra High Court judges. And to hear NPP Deputy Communications Director John Boadu put the matter so tersely and succinctly: "It is rather unfortunate, but members of the governing National Democratic Congress go into a panic mode whenever the word 'Justice' is mentioned." And it is not for nothing that the NDC Abongo Boys have unconscionably corrupted our Fourth Republican Constitution with indemnity clauses. And I couldn't prouder trucking with the scions of the House that Danquah, Busia and Dombo built!

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*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Department of English
Nassau Community College of SUNY
Garden City, New York
August 27, 2013
E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net
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