Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa
Of all the fallouts from President Mills’ controversial ‘routine medical check-up’, the nonsense from Information Minister Samuel Ablakwa Okudzeto stands unsurpassed. And if that is a reflection of local politics, then we are still light years away from the acceptable level.
With his recently filed incisors which he gleefully displays justifiably, he has not relented in his pastime of communicating with Ghanaians as though he is dealing with kindergarten kids.
When the task of managing the politically jinxed “routine check-up” fell on his bosom, he expectedly stretched propaganda too far, robed President Mills in an angel’s garb, lied between his teeth and ended up tickling Ghanaians to laugh their hearts out- a senseless yet amusing comic relief.
So New Patriotic Party (NPP) personalities died because the party had touched God’s anointed person and that person is President Mills?
Former President Jerry John Rawlings might have to be cautious about how he reprimands “God’s anointed John Evans Atta Mills” given the rate at which those who do so are dying.
Just why a government appointee would open his mouth so wide and utter such insulting and imbecilic nonsense is beyond our ken. We could bet an illiterate passed those remarks. Little wonder therefore that when the irresponsible remarks were made public, he sought to disown them. Unfortunately for him, he was caught on tape, which is available on request anyway.
When infantile propagandists run out of propaganda stuff, they resort to such funny remarks, making a mockery of themselves, big time.
Reducing politics to this level is a thing is not in the interest of the growth of democracy, regardless of the President’s decision that so be it. We now comprehend the importance of age and experience when certain appointments are being made, even if for Mills, such factors are not worth considering.
Mr. Ablakwa, although a little ahead of the man who until recently was the spokesperson of the President, in terms of language decency, is also associated with inappropriate remarks.
He has a litany of such inappropriate remarks to his credit, and with the President’s acquiescence, we can expect more ‘Ablakwa rubbish’ in the public domain now that Koku is on the margins.
Sometimes we wonder whether the young appointees are not trying to outdo each other in hurling insults at political opponents.
Ablakwa continues to muddy the political waters by stretching credibility beyond acceptable levels in his submissions- a situation which has robbed him of any modicum of respectability.
Associated with such lies as the creation of some 1.6 million phantom jobs in the country, Ablakwa is not one of the few appointees in the Mills government who are taken seriously by the Ghanaian public: It is a fact. If Koku Anyidohu’s name has become synonymous with hubris and egotism, Ablakwa’s is with mendacity.
Associating the death of opposition elements to their alleged speculation about the President’s death is a remark which stands unparalleled in the nonsensical utterances from the young man so far.
What a welcome treat for the President whose energy level is not only primed for the present and future, but also the past. He must be relishing it even as he keeps to the medical counsel he got from his American medics.
When such characters start arrogating to themselves the power to determine who God’s anointed persons are, then we have a major problem on our hands. Surprisingly, our clergy might not even react to such sacrilegious utterances from power-drunk youth holding political offices. They have a point perhaps. Why respond to such irresponsible political clowns?
