Konongo Fordjour - 28 june 2009

Dear Managing-Editor and Publisher, Mr. Raymond Archer!

My name is Kwadwo Okyere-Awurukuo Fordjour, known in political life as Konongo Fordjour. I am responding to your publication on 22 June 2009 titled: PLOT TO SCATTER OBAMA VISIT EXPOSED that featured my electronic-mail contribution made to our party, NPP-USA, forum on 15 June 2009. There are a number of things hidden or deliberately deleted from your publication that I think the general public should have read as well. Second, your publication was not exposing anything because Radio Focus-UK had aired the same report within twenty four hours it was circulated here. Therefore your publication was extremely belated news, truncated and refined with your preferred concoctions.

First, let us all read the full text here together and compare with your defined EXPOSED publication. The Konongo Fordjour e-mail circulated reads:

I really agree with your analysis here. Current developments in Ghana show ample evidence that the NDC government is ready on retribution and all out revenge against our party. Two things are probable here, either NDC plans on weakening and dismantling our party now to set an indelible mark in the minds of the Ghanaian electorate to help it in a clear lead in the 2012 elections; or to completely obliterate our party from its legal existence. In either way, we should not underestimate the virulence of NDC political treachery when it comes to our local politics. This NDC plan would not have been outdoored if the target number one, Hon. Asamoah-Boateng, had not initiated his holiday journey, prior to President Obama's intended visit. Please let it be clear that, the NDC government will wait after Obama's visit before causing heavy political incursions.

This is the reason why I had proposed earlier that NPP-USA must make attempt to stop President Obama's visit to Ghana. We have numerous reasons, such as illegal stops, snatching of cars, BNI disturbances in issues that are purely court cases, denying former president and his vice salaries, etc. to do that. My proposal was considered too radical then, but I will still insist on it. Even if we fail to stop the Obama visit, at least we would have initiated our starting point in our long battle with the Atta-Mills' government and all the injustices associated with NDC.

Our executive team must start jamming the state department website with injustices from Ghana government. Our Chairman can also write a special letter to President Obama and the White House to register our dissatisfaction with the current developments in Ghana. We may also start with our senators and house representatives from our congressional districts. Our message should be that: "the world's greatest democracy must lead by example"; "Obama's visit to Ghana will Reinforce Injustice"; "Obama, Help Correct Injustice in Ghana". We need to send a clear message to Ghana and the right timing is now. We need to inject new strength into our weaken front in Ghana, and the NPP-USA is right to do that now. We must act now, else we will be overtaken by unpardonable events in a very, very near future.

We need to make our case on the current spate of NDC government onslaught and its calculated protracted war on NPP in Ghana. We need to show the true reflections of Democracy in Ghana vis-Ã -vis with the current diabolical intents of a desperate government in Ghana. I think we need to inform the United States of America of what is happening in Ghana while the world's most powerful advocate for human rights and democracy, President Obama, prepares to fly into the arms of military-controlled NDC. If we align with the general perceptions that President Obama and our good United States of America friends already know what is happening in Ghana, then we have to think again. We must make our case by telling our world here what is going on in Ghana in its exactitude. Please remember that knowing is extremely different from being credibly informed.

Once again, this is just an advice to the Chairman and his team that reserve the sole responsibility to decide whether to take the advice or simply discard it. I am aware that the last thing the NDC government and the entire Ghanaian population would want to hear is to wake up the next morning to hear that President Obama has cancelled his visit to Ghana because of the division created by the current government's dictatorial policies. Then, the NDC will sit upright to listen and behave appropriately. Again, this is just a suggestion and I don't have the mandate to do as it pleases me. If I had the mandate? Oh Jesus Christ, President Obama would have been extremely upset with my mails and complaints by now that would have forced him to cancel the visit immediately. Alternatively, a strong warning message would have been sent to Ghana to straighten things. Either way, President Mills and his kangaroo government would have gotten the message, period. THE MESSAGE ENDS HERE.

Now, Mr. Archer, do you realize that you simply edited the report and chose sections that interest you? The phrase “NDC plan … if TARGET NUMBER ONE, Hon Asamoah Boateng, …” was deleted. The reasons for this write up, i.e. THE NDC DIVISIONIST STRATEGIES, such as deliberate refusal to pay the salaries of a former president and his vice for more than six months have been eliminated from the message. Again, the whole last three paragraphs in my message were deliberately deleted which shows your hidden agenda. If I may remind you once again that Konongo Fordjour contested our Chairmanship position here and lost. Hence he has absolutely no decision-making role to play as far as NPP-USA is concerned. It therefore beats my imagination why my mails should be singled out, intercepted and made a big deal of, in a pool of numerous write-ups.

Interestingly, your publication of my mail attracted over one thousand local and international commentators, collectively, across the globe in all the media centers that culled it. Consequently, I was extremely thrilled with the enthusiasm showed in Konongo Fordjour’s handcraft in the opposition NDC quarters. Therefore, I am going to help improve your journalism by creating a column in your newspaper to directly inform our NDC folks to secure larger opposition audience. I have multi-discipline background in human resources, finance and investments, and small business research; and I will love to use your medium to advise the president in job creation. How about that?

But for now, I’d like us to concentrate on the issue that has brought us to our mutual discussion here. I am absolutely aware that as a distinguished journalist, you are fully abreast with both local and international politics. However, let me refresh your mind with the basics of politics and why I believe the trend chosen as NPP diehard is the noblest course. I am hopeful that you will be converted at the end of our conversation here to cross carpet and become a disciplined liberal NPP democrat. Now let us begin:

Fundamentally, POLITICS is the implementation of POLICIES, agreed? Fine, let us move on. To provide the best set of policies for a beloved nation, the organization (political party) must be guided by ethical principles. Are we together? Then we must also add that political parties MUST be created, based on a philosophy. NPP is based on a philosophy and NDC is not. NPP believes in a bill of rights, freedom of speech, right to be represented, smooth human development through tested practicable empowerment of our rural folks, and so forth.

The NDC on the other hand was not formed with any known principle other than military dictatorship. The successive NDC governments have always ruled through command peripheral strategies. The NDC have always governed through the fringes of the national economy. The NDC mediocre propositions made to trim the secondary sectors have always greeted the nation with misery, embarrassment, and dissatisfaction.

Instead of concentrating on creating jobs for the suffering Ghanaians, the NDC administration has wasted a good six-month-opportunity designing blame games at the expense of smart formulation of job creation policies. The nation is yearning for jobs and our people are waiting patiently for the sensational NDC cacophonic display in job creation. Perhaps we may agree on one thing that the NDC organization was built on an insurrectionist, tit-for-tat, and vengeance philosophy. The NDC must earn respect by learning human development skills from the NPP.

I had promised earlier on to remain silent and not to criticize the government until 10th October 2010, but I am forced to brief you with our current government’s loss-of-direction, out-of-control, and lackadaisical political J-walking in playing-mantis thrust. Konongo Fordjour and all peace loving citizens of Ghana such as His Excellency, our Vice President John Mahama, relative to his recent reaction to the issue at hand, believe in freedom of speech, representation, information, and so forth. If the NDC government is doing the right thing, then there is nothing to be afraid of when drawing the attention of the international community of what is going on inside the country.

The New Patriotic Party single-handedly nurtured our current freedom through the vagaries of military criminalism over our thirty-year-stay in opposition. Once in government the NPP demonstrated to the world the real African hospitable democracy. Civilized method of summoning citizens, such as convicts Tsatsu Tsikata, Daniel Agbodakpi, George Yankey, Kwame Peprah, late Victor Serlomey, etc. were all given their legal rights for over five years before convicted. Tsatsu even had the right to travel across the globe to seek international support of which he did not have anyway.

The NDC definition of democracy on the other hand is inferior tactics - Gun-man Jerry Rawlings command democracy - is what the Mills administration is afraid will be exposed. I do support the NDC government to punish any wrong doing by citizens regardless of political affiliation, but that must be done in civility, decency, and give respect for human rights.

Dear Mr. Archer, the party that I belong to, the NPP, is a progressive party with first-class international credentials accorded any democratic party in the world. Consequently, all NPP members under the sun will always be readily available to help democratic dispensation. I will help our nation with many write-ups that will appear in your medium. The rule of the game will be that anything positively exhibited by the government will be flagged with GOOD JOB. However any poor work will be descended up heavily with all the scorn it will deserve, sounds good? Brilliant! Then let us begin right away with essays on job creation. Catch you soon and God Bless!

Konongo Fordjour, Boston-MA

E-Mail: koafordjour@yahoo.com