ADWOA SAFOA MUST BE CHIDED NOW!!

LIVE FROM GHANA

By A. Attah-Brako

In Kumasi –

I was filled with goose pimples all over my body on Wednesday, 24 March,, 2011 upon hearing one of the few women I admire in the New Patriotic Party, Adwoa Safoa an NPP MP aspirant for the Dormi Kwabenya constituency invoke the “all die be die” mantra on Joy Fm Super Morning show.
Kwadwo Oppong Nkrumah the host of the program asked her a very harmless question that has to do with her ambition and she invoked the “careless” words of her flag bearer Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo-Addo – “all die be die”.

Personally, I believe that in the attempt to cover their shame, members of the New Patriotic Party have resorted to making use of the controversial words of their flag bearer in order to trivialize it.

They are effortlessly behaving like the ostrich hiding away from the repercussion of their own sound bite.

What a shame?

We are befuddled often times in our quest to find out the make-up of our national leadership.

We are faced with the scary truth that, they are nothing but absolute shame and failures.

This is a country that is endowed with all the God given resources which most of the developed countries lack yet for over 53 years of independence we are still crawling in underdevelopment.

There are many success stories of countries who but admired our great beginning in the hands of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (the first Prime Minister and President of Modern Ghana). The likes of Malaysia, India, Singapore and Zimbabwe etc are but few of the nations who started with us yet Malaysia is counted today among the developed countries of the world.

The work of our party system in Ghana has been nothing but destructive. It has destroyed the very cohesion that bound us as Ghanaians into a closely-knit family of like minds willing to sacrifice for the other generation.

Our Parliament house too has been reduced to a stadium with the Members of Parliament filling in and out like spectators in the Accra Sports Stadium. The work of these legislators leaves many unanswered questions in the minds of the Ghanaian populace who have grown disenchanted with the kind of “pettiness” that has marked out our Parliamentarians.

Upon reflecting on the kind of dehumanizing treatments citizens of this “gold plated” nation get from our national leadership inter alia Members of Parliament, Ministers, church leaders and the government I began to appreciate the larger picture of the intifada ongoing in the Middle East this year.

Again delving into our past treatment of women in this country and the kind of ceiling glass consistently persistent in Ghana I was saddened and my stomach churned by the comment of Adwoa Safoa whom I thought will condemn the “all die be die” words of her flag bearer knowing its destructive tendencies but rather adorned her speech with the words like a beautiful necklace on her neck.

Someone like her will not offer any extraordinary leadership to that of Prof. Mike Ocquay – the incumbent New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament.

My caution to the Women chauvinist out there is that, the fact that we are chanting “women empowerment” does not mean we gloss over pettiness from some of our ambitious women folk.

They must equally be condemned.


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