Whilst the residents of Adenta and Madina are in great sorrow
over the incessant killings of their own by running vehicles on the
Adenta-Madina highway; whilst the family of the late Mariam Kassim are mourning
the painful killing of their innocent daughter on the highway; whilst the whole
nation is mourning; whilst President Akufo-Addo and Vice President Alhaji
Bawumia are commiserating with the bereaved families and friends of all persons
that lost loved ones as a result of accident recorded on the highway; whilst
everybody is saddened by this development, our colleagues in the NDC see an
opportunity to take advantage of the situation and make political capital.
Appearing on Newsfile, Ghana’s finest weekend news analysis
show, on Saturday, November 10, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, a Former Deputy
Communications Minister, Aide to President John Mahama and lead communicator
for the opposition NDC, clearly demonstrated the NDC’s grand scheme of going
all out to seek to make political capital out of the situation. When giving
this big platform to contribute to the discussion, the pulse of the nation
didn’t matter to Felix Kwakye Ofosu, the excruciating pains of the families of the
innocent girl who was killed on the highway didn’t matter to Felix, the
overwhelming calls on relevant state institutions to take responsibility and
act accordingly didn’t matter to Felix.
None of these mattered to Felix Kwakye Ofosu and his NDC. What
mattered to Felix was how to make political capital out of the situation for
his NDC. So, what does he do? He puts every blame on President Akufo-Addo and
calls on Ghanaians to be angry with the President for being responsible for all
the deaths recoded on the highway. Obviously, to Felix, this is what will make
Ghanaians vote against President Akufo-Addo and bring back his darling John
Mahama so that, he, Felix, will possibly be made Information Minister [or is it
propaganda Minister]. Such an insensitive and opportunistic narcissist!
Even in doing this petty politics, he won’t do it with finesse
and competence, because, of course, competence is not in the NDC lexicon. So,
he goes peddling falsehoods and engaging in selective amnesia. Fortunately, the
highly respected and celebrated Abdul Malik Kweku Baako was there at the right time
to expose such an “opportunistic liar” and lay bare all the relevant documented
facts on the matter to the shock of Felix and the NDC. First and all, per the
undisputed facts, documentations were finalized in September 2018 and a chunk
of the required funds for the construction of the Madina-Adenta Highway was secured
before the Mills-Mahama NDC administration took over.
For eight (8) good years, the NDC government
couldn’t complete this project which includes the construction of the six
footbridges, which is largely blamed for all the needless deaths on the highway.
Indeed, the NDC government’s own documents reveal that, by 2014, the
footbridges were 75% complete. Since 2014 till now, work on the footbridges had
completely stalled over contractual and monetary issues. So, going by Felix
Kwakye’s logic, if we were to engage in the apportionment of blames, is it the
NDC that had good 8 years and yet couldn’t complete the construction of the
footbridges or the NPP that had less than 2 years that should take a chunk of
the blame?
Well, you (Felix Kwakye Ofosu and the NDC) can play all the propaganda
with the deaths of your fellow countrymen and women, but Abdul Malik Kweku
Baako and other discerning Ghanaians will expose you. We are NOT unintelligent.
Iddi Muhayu-Deen
#ForGodAndCountry
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