WE versus THEM

 

WE versus THEM

Iddi Muhayu-Deen writes…

Let me see if I can help you to identify one clear difference between NPP and NDC in relation to the culture of ‘arrogance of power’. Sometime late last week, a certain Maxwell Kofi Jumah, who is said to be a member of the NPP and a maverick politician based in Kumasi, described as ridiculous, the 100-DAY ULTIMATUM given by the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) to the President-Elect, Nana Akufo-Addo to restore teacher trainee allowances.  

Ordinarily and commonsensically, you would think that these concerned teachers (CCT) have not been fair to Nana Addo at all considering the fact that he hasn’t even been sworn into office yet; let alone, to have formed his government. How urgent is this demand that they could not wait for January 7 before confronting him with it? Why this premature ejaculation from these teachers? [Apologies to my mentor, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako]. 

I don’t also want to talk about the serious boardroom crisis facing the CCT culminating in the suspension of their Chairman and General Secretary around the same time they were making these demands on the President-Elect. However, for opening his mouth too wide to speak the ‘bitter truth’, let me tell you the fate of Mr. Kofi Jumah:

The entire NPP machinery, from the highest echelon of the party to the ordinary party supporter DESCENDED HEAVILY on him and proceeded to virtually disown him, whilst describing his conduct as unfortunate and reckless. “We are sorry about that. The NPP WILL NOT tolerate that at all. Kofi Jumah DOES NOT SPEAK for the NPP government. We therefore wish to assure the teachers and Ghanaians in general that whatever promises we made will be fulfilled,” the party General Secretary openly said in response to Kofi Jumah. 

In view of these dissociations and mouth-lashes he suffered, Kofi Jumah instinctively felt compelled to immediately RETRACT his statement and rendered a SINCERE APOLOGY to the teachers. He also pleaded with Ghanaians to forgive him. If you contrast this spectacle with what we saw under the NDC in the past 8 years, the sea of difference that you would see, is one of obvious contradiction. 

In effect, if Kofi Jumah were an NDC official, his gratuitous ‘attack’ on the teachers for being unfair on the government, would have immediately earned him a visa to political stardom. He would have been seen as one of the infamous BABIES WITH SHARP TEETH and get promoted to a Minister of State or a Presidential Staffer. Examples abound and you and I know that for a fact... Charley, say hi to Stan Dogbe for me wai

With the NPP and Nana Addo at the helm of affairs, you can be rest assured, as we just witnessed, that government officials would be very RESPONSIBLE and tactfully RESPONSIVE to the genuine expectations of the people. Every government official would appreciate the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian and work at addressing same. You and I, would from hence, be treated with much more RESPECT and DIGNITY by the managers of our taxes. 

Ultimately, the arrogance of power which had characterized the management of our national affairs under the Mahama government would become a thing of the past. Gradually, we are seeing a TRANSITION from the culture of IMPUNITY to that of DETERRENCE. People would now take responsible responsibility for their responsible irresponsibility. I thank God I voted for a man who is BRINGING SANITY to our governance dispensation and RESTORING our national ideals and pride.

  

When history is told one day, let it be said that, there ever lived one Iddi Muhayu-Deen who stood-up and got himself counted as one of the crusaders for change in order to get this country work again. Surely, it will also be said that I didn’t only desire CHANGE but went out to campaign and eventually voted for CHANGE for the love of God and my country. Long live Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, Alhaji Dr. Bawumia and the NPP.

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Assalamu alaikum