By Ekua Kwansema
When NPP was ushered into power in 2000, they suddenly accosted the press and other individuals whom they paid heavily to sing their praises at all times. In fact those sycophants became so sophisticated with their praises that their usual refrain was “See No evil”, Hear No Evil”, and “Speak No Evil” about all the cheating, lying, stealing and economic rape that was going on under the NPP regime.
I am of course talking about Kweku Baakos, Harruna Attas, Gifty Affenyi-Dadzies, Baby Ansabas, Gabby Otchere Darkos and a host of others. As for Baby Ansaba the least said about him the better. My sources at Daily Graphic informed me that when he went there in the early 90s to do his practical attachment he caused so much mischief for Daily Graphic by manufacturing stories that he was banished from ever stepping there to work for the paper. Anybody can cross-check this information from the Daily Graphic. And this is the person that NPP is paying to propagate its views. Heaven help us.
These propagandists were seen and heard everywhere; Radio Stations and TV stations showering praises upon praises on the NPP government even in areas where the NPP government felt short. And these people always jumped on fair minded Ghanaians who pointed out the certain mistakes of the NPP government. Who would not be doing this when cheap money is being given to you to talk cheap?
The NPP government manned by President Kufour thought that by doing this, the larger Ghanaian public would fall for the NPP and not believe anything that the opposition says. They thought they could use these sycophants to cover their backs for them. Nice try. It worked for a period, but not this time.
What the NPP gurus did not know is that these cheap propagandists contributed big time towards the current problems confronting the party and Nana Akufo-Addo’s ambition or super ambition to become president. The cheap information they continued to sell was not bought by Ghanaians who know all the economic abuses that is going on in Ghana.
One intriguing thing that I would want to draw readers’ attention to was the cheapest propaganda work done by Gabby for his cousin Akufo-Addo. This man Gabby is the so-called head of the Danquah-Busia Institute, an institute that aims at expounding the visions and work of these two men who played a part in Ghana’s political history. So why would not Gabby continue to do that work, but turn himself into a trickster pollster overnight, giving fake figures to project an outright win by his cousin Akufo-Addo?
The other day my jaw dropped when Gabby even had the audacity to question another pollster, demanding they furnish him with information and data on how they came by their conclusions. This is outright insult. Who appointed Gabby the supervisor of pollsters in Ghana? It’s been arrogance, arrogance and serious arrogance by NPP people. And this stigma against the NPP would not go away. It has stuck because they are really arrogant people.
Now with their backs against the wall, all these cheap propagandists have scattered. They are running helter-skelter, looking for cover to take a deep breath. As for Kweku Baako, I concluded a long time ago that he is a big fool. A fool who claims to know the history of Ghana yet does not know anything. His father was part of the Nkrumah government that the UP people and other military personnel schemed with the CIA headed at the time by Papa George Bush to overthrow from power in 1966.
So why would Kweku Baako pal with the NPP and still claim he is a CPP? And the most insulting thing was he supporting Akufo-Addo during the presidential campaign instead of his own party candidate Dr. Ndoum. His excuse was that the CPP did not stand the chance. In reality he wanted to continue receiving his fat cheques from the NPP.
Harruna Atta is an aggrieved man. We all know that. I guess if you are like him and found yourself in government one day tasting some goodies, thinking it is well with your soul and got booted you would forever be aggrieved. Which is why he keeps singing the praises of Kufour to the extent that the day he travelled with Kufour to France, he was the only reporter who was still writing about what he saw in France four weeks after they returned back to Ghana. Probably he felt he was still lodging at the hotel in France.
Gifty Affenyi-Dadzie is one of the key journalists who benefitted a lot from the PNDC and NDC governments. Remember when Ghana first introduced the Forex Bureau? If you do not know my sources claim that Dr. Agama, former Governor of the Bank of Ghana helped Gifty to establish her Forex Bureau and this helped in making her become financial stable. Don’t buy the story that the money came from the husband because Mr. Dadzie was a brokeman like me. Yet this lady has nothing but bad things to say about the NDC. Who would not be if you are probably the youngest person ever to become a member of the Council of State, courtesy President Kufour?
These and other people like Awuni are now running the show in Ghana. Is it any wonder why the NPP is reeling under severe pressure to the extent that President Kufour has suddenly stopped travelling and is campaigning like hell jumping from one region to another, begging people to forgive him for buying a hotel and looking elsewhere when his NPP people were stealing from Ghana?
December 28 would turn out to be a remarkable day; a day that the real change that Ghanaians need would become a reality when the NPP is voted out of power. Professor Mills would win this run-off. There is no question or doubt about this. Just test the mood of Ghanaians in the streets of Accra, Cape Coast, Takoradi, Tamale and even Kumasi. You can sense it. They want to try somebody else. And Professor Mills has turned out to be the Real Deal. By the way did anybody hear the rush by the NPP government in upgrading the Tamale Airport to international status? And it was announced by Mr. “Boxer” Baidoe-Ansah, Minster of Aviation. Can you connect the dots? Ayere Basaa.
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