By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Garden City, New York
Jan. 17, 2015
E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net

When the young butterball who was recently dismissed from the office of President John Dramani Mahama accuses the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Minority in Parliament of bankrolling the brilliant work of the pressure group called OccupyGhana, Mr. Samuel George Nettey inadvertently kicks the bumbing Mahama administration in the teeth. And I can see the grotesque bloody grimace of Little Dramani. The man would need a ton of ice packs to nurse himself back to health (See "OccupyGhana Is Being Bankrolled By The NPP - Sam George" Adomonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 1/17/15).

If it is accurate, as Mr. Nettey seems to be exuberantly claiming, that OccupyGhana has been successfully peforming the work of the NPP Parliamentary Minority, then the Ace-Ankomah-led group deserves every financial assistance that it may be receiving from its alleged sponsors; for Mr. Sydney Casely-Hayford and his fine-brained boys and girls are doing a darn good job in keeping President Mahama and his misfit minions of graduate-student appointees on their toes.

Needless to say, not only do the members of OccupyGhana deserve our unstinted admiration and plaudits for vehemently demanding better living standards for all Ghanaians, their alleged prime sponsors also ought to be commended for selecting the most forward-looking, imaginative and results-oriented pressure group to invest their public-underwritten fat salaries. This also goes to show the harried and disappointed Ghanaian electorate that given the mandate and chance to govern, come 2016, the Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party is likely to perform far better than their bumbling National Democratic Congress opponents.

So far, the response of the NDC-sponsored so-called Committee for Joint Action (CJA) is that its members are not going to demonstrate against the lackluster 2015 Mahama budget for the undeserved pleasure of key NPP operatives like Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, the Parliamentary Minority Leader and New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Kumasi-Suame. Now, isn't it rather bizarre for the membership of any pressure group to presume that holding the feet of President Mahama to the proverbial fire of responsible leadership is tantamount to doing the cynical bidding of members of the parliamentary opposition, rather than fighting for the greater and inviolable interests of the Ghanaian citizenry at large?

But guess what, my dear reader? Even Mr. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia, the renowned cross-dresser and Chief Scribe of the ruling National Democratic Congress, is fully convinced that bread-and-butter NDC shills like Mr. Samuel George Nettey are decidedly on the offside of Ghanaian political culture. Recently, for instance, the man popularly called General Mosquito admonished rank-and-file NDC members to stay out of the way and business of the membership of OccupyGhana, as the latter group of good-governance agitators and promoters had the collective interests of Ghanaians as their top-most priority and agenda.

And, by the way, Mr. Nettey did not take the pressure group OccupyGhana "to the cleaners," as the reporter of the above-referenced news item suggested in the opening of his article. Else, Mr. Nettey would have had to be arrested for the punishable crime of larceny or fraud. Which is in absolutely no way to imply that the New Patriotic Party's Parliamentary Minority could not be more up-and-doing than they are presently.

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