Re: Konadu’s evil machinations
I totally disagree with the opinion in an article written and published by Ato Kwamena Dadzie with the title ‘Konadu’s evil machinations’ on Oct. 26th 2010 and widely published here on Ghanaweb.com and many other portals.
I know that Ato Kwamena Dadzie is a natural clown. I also know he suffers from diarrhea of the mouth. What I didn’t know was that Ato also suffers from rickets of the mind. Otherwise how could Ato consider his own personal warped opinions and views as facts?
He stated in that article that, ‘But the NDC would make a big mistake to put up Nana Konadu as their presidential candidate. They are better off putting up a John Mahama or a Spio-Garbrah. Even Johnson Asiedu-Nketiah has a better chance of winning a presidential contest for the NDC than that wife of Jerry John Rawlings. They know this fact but the NDC likes to make mistakes. It seems to be one of their major learning aids’.
So Ato thinks in his mind that Mrs. Rawlings will never be president of Ghana. He also thinks in his mind that John Mahama or E-Spio-G would be better off for the NDC in 2012 or even general mozzie. For him, selecting Mrs. Rawlings would be a mistake because she and her husband run this nation for almost twenty years and took us nowhere. I have said that is gibberish because the P-NDC under former president Rawlings brought us unto a highway of progress. There are living facts to show for that-even the very fact that Ato sits on radio as a 33 year young man castigating presidents and former presidents openly and of his own free is a testament. What is more interesting about this warped and naïve view is that Ato Kwamena Dazie considers his uninformed conjecture as fact. He thinks he is entitled to his own set of facts here. But where are the facts in what he has said?
He even goes on to conjure that ‘the reason why the NDC doesn’t want to create an electoral college like the NPP has done is because the status quo affords the Rawlings loyalists one of the best opportunities to get his wife to run for the presidency’. What a sweeping statement and an excellent way to step on words and leave reason aside.
Isn’t it extremely naïve for Ato to suggest that the NDC would’ve followed the NPP with an expansion of Electoral College but has not done it because the current arrangement affords Mr. Rawlings an opportunity to get his wife elected as NDC flag bearer? Does it mean to Ato that the decision to expand or not to expand the NDC Electoral College lies in the hands of Mr. Rawlings as an individual?
Can Ato Kwamena Dadzie see how clearly his over exuberance is exposing his crushing ignorance? There hasn’t been any discussion at all in the NDC about Electoral College expansion before 2012 election. The NEC is in-charge of generating that debate and if it has not been brought up, then it only shows a lack of general interest on the part of the national executive committee concerning the subject. Ato Kwamena Dadzie must therefore educate himself and desist from touting his personal uninformed views as informed positions.
It would seem to me that Ato Kwamena Dadzie has just gained his political consciousness as he also claimed in that article that the 1992 presidential election was a sham. Was it a sham because the opposition NPP boycotted the elections? Or it was a sham because people didn’t go out to vote? He must have really been very young by then and has only depended on hearsay to draw easy conclusions characterized by indigestible thinking.
And did I read him saying that Prof. Mills has completely ignored NDC founder and former President Rawlings for close to two years-an action that has gotten Rawlings pissed off? Has Ato got his facts right and speaking based on intelligence or he is just blowing hot air with the hope that he would be believed? Does he think that he has credibility and authority to say what prompts every action within the NDC? He even called Rawlings ‘nothing if not a fighter-all brawn, little brain’. He has been biting a lot lately-and in an unchallenged manner. He is reaching a crossroads with what he has suddenly started to bite on the subject of Mrs. Rawlings. I hope he is prepared for the long haul?
When I challenged Ato to tell what makes him think that his personal beliefs can be called facts, he conveniently said to me that he knows who I am. He knows I’m one of those clamoring for Mrs. Rawlings to be president because of ‘crumbs’ from her. He boasted that he could never be compromised by Mrs. Rawlings. But the question I ask Ato is what better crumbs than what he gets for picking the stories they do on Joy fm every day? What better crumbs than what you get for killing all the relevant stories and airing only those that suits the agenda of his political patrons? What better crumbs than what you get for such a deformed journalism on joy fm?
Why would Ato twist the meaning of the statement issued by Mr. Rawlings recently by positing that the ‘we won all our election in the past in the NDC’ phrase refers to Mr. and Mrs. Rawlings alone as ‘we’ and not the entire NDC party? Has he become a conspiracy theorist specialized in reading the minds of the Rawlings? What insolence from Ato Kwamena Dadzie! Sometimes I’m tempted to think that he has joined those two most dangerous threats to our polis, the two double agents and opportunists par excellence Kwesi Pratt and Malik Kweku Baako to show ‘primitive loyalty’ to President Mills because after all ‘adzie wo fie oye’ is their philosophy.
Ghana is a democracy. The NDC is one of the main vehicles that have nurtured this culture. The NDC is a pacesetter in Ghanaian democracy and not an imitator of any other party guidelines. The NDC don’t operate by the logic of speculators and warped minds like that of Ato Kwamena Dadzie. Leadership contest is inevitable and no single person can determine who leads the NDC in the future but no one single person can also determine who could run for primaries or not. And those who think it is not time for a woman president in Ghana or that Mrs. Rawlings can never be president of Ghana are akin to those who said that Ghana was unprepared for political independence and self rule as at 1957. They are the cynics and skeptics but the greatest things in this world have never been achieved by any of such thinkers.
Or is Ato Kwamena Dadzie under the delusion that his cynicism is a strategy to prevent any natural choice that the NDC and Ghanaians would make in a woman as president? As narrow minded as he is, Ato goes on to say that he prefers Atta Mills at his ‘incompetent best’ to Mrs. Rawlings because ‘she is incompetent and vindictive’. I suspect that this Ato guy don’t understand some of the words he uses otherwise, who is more vindictive than Prof. mills who could not even forgive Dr. E-Spio-G and work with him after contesting him in the primaries. What about all the other people who contested him? Has he forgiven them and worked with them? If Ato wants to become a praise poet for president Mills, let him stop masquerading as a journalist.
I know for a fact that Ato Kwamena Dadzie and others such as Bature, Pratt and Baako are on a mission to oppose Mrs. Rawlings who is rumored to have presidential ambition. These rumors have not been confirmed neither have they been denied by Mrs. Rawlings. Supporters have come out to promote a candidature for Mrs. Rawlings with the MOVEMENT FOR KONADU 2012. Even though I am not one of those leading this campaign, I totally support the call for Mrs. Rawlings to step out and take our democracy into the next phase in 2012. After all, other leading figures in the party and government including the president and his vice have not only declared their intentions to run but are actually taking undue advantage of their positions to campaign for support.
There are also rumors that President Mills may choose not to run for president in 2012. As a result, Kwesi Ahwoi and co. are all been touted around as possible replacement for Mills. I do not see a thing wrong with the former first lady contesting in the grand scheme of things. In my books, she is more than qualified to run for president. She has the opportunity, quality and experience to make history for Ghana as first female president-a rare quality that is not found in many Ghanaian women.
All the patriarchs and male chauvinists or rather Mr. and Mrs. Rawlings haters who wish that she would never be president must only pray and hope that she does not decide to contest Mills because the outcome can only be humiliating for him. Why, only a rumor has raised the temperature levels not only at the corridors of power but also within the clique of journalists whose symbiotic relationship with the establishment is affected directly or indirectly by the possible reality of the rumor. I therefore have no doubt that if Mrs. Rawlings rises to the occasion, history would be made in Ghana.
Ato Kwamena Dadzie can therefore turn his own warped and jaundiced views into his own set of facts and delude himself. As he said in his article that Mrs. Rawlings if allowed to rule Ghana for three days would take Ghana backwards by 30years, I can only say that Ato cannot be expecting discerning listeners and readers to applaud him for saying something any namby-pamby can say. Indeed, no one needs brains to say that. In that case, Ato would have to prepare for his worst nightmare since the MOVEMENT FOR KONADU 2012 is catching up like a whirl-wind in a storm. It is a true democracy we are building and no group of journalists no matter how loud-mouthed they are can stampede the democratic process in this country-and certainly not in the NDC.
And if Ato Kwamena Dadzie and his ilk believe that the nationwide call by NDC foot soldiers for the candidature of Mrs. Rawlings in 2012 is an orchestration by former president Rawlings to get a proxy in his wife as NDC presidential candidate in order to come back to power, then they might as well tell Ghanaians that Mr. Rawlings is no more as popular as he used to be to gain spontaneous support from the people without manipulating them. People must wake up from their slumber and face the reality that the Rawlings’s are still very extremely popular not only within the NDC but among Ghanaians and still enjoys spontaneous support from the people of Ghana to the emotional displeasure of their opponents like Ato Kwamena Dadzie and his political patrons.
To Hades with their bogus conspiracy theories!
SaCut Amenga-Etego (NDC youth activist)
rassacut@yahoo.com
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Malik Kweku Baako is a corrupt journalist
Accra Ghana, Sept. 30th 2010
I have no doubts in my mind that the most compromised journalist during the Kofour regime was the editor-in-chief of the crusading guide newspaper Abdul Malik Kweku Baako who is now the managing editor of the new crusading Guide newspaper. Those who have followed our political intrigues carefully and with a sixth sense know that the new crusading guide newspaper owned and managed by Mr. Baako now is a direct outcome of the journalistic corruption in the reign of President Kufour.
Why, were we not in this country when reports were made open about the efforts by the Kwamena Bartels- led ministry of information to provide a media buffer for the NPP government through a planned and projected corruption and compromises of specific and ‘influential journalists’ in Ghana? Did the list not include Kweku Baako, Egbert Faigbile who invested his compromise in the Ghanaian Observer newspaper and Kwame Sefa Kaye of peace fm? Did the minister ever deny this story at the time? Absolutely no! And yet, there are many undocumented sources and cast iron evidence that confirm this as a fact.
As part of the projected corruption plan of the Kufour led government and executed by Kwamena Bartels, these so-called senior journalists had state of the art high speed internet infrastructure set up for them at their various operating points in Accra. Not only that, it was also reported at the time that these named journalists received an average of US$15.000 a month for the purpose of covering up the truth and serving as hatchet men of media buffer for the Kufour regime. Let the former information minister Kwamena Bartels deny that he didn’t have a policy or practice, official or unofficial at the information ministry where he specifically induced the named journalists and their hirelings with cash, presidential travels and other inducements if indeed, he believes in the truth.
And if you cannot call a man corrupt; who claims to be an Nkrumaist or a CPP but who don’t only openly work against this same group and its leadership, but actually endorses and works for its opponents, who then is corrupt? If you cannot call a man who has permanent interests without enduring principles that can stand the test of time compromised, who then is corrupt? In my books, the most compromised individual in any polity is one who acts as a ‘double agent’ for both government and opposition forces. I double doubt if Mr Baako will pass this test going through our history.
Some of us, young as we may be, find it very appalling that this publicly corrupt journalist will have monopoly over the biggest airwaves in Ghana today to pontificate and castigate others as liars. In my view, a scheming journalist who receives money, travel incentives, Ad contracts and other largesse from a government to compromise him on the truth lacks the morality to cast a stone at anyone for lying.
Let me put this into context; when former president Rawlings alleged in a speech in Ouagadougou that there were such compromised journalists in Ghana who earned US$10.000 during a certain regime, the responses from both the NPP and specifically Kwaku Baako was revealing and/or even exposing. There are a thousand and one journalists in Ghana. It will be interesting to know why it was Malik Baako in particular who was demanding that he publicly names that compromised journalist. Was it because Mr. Baako’s conscience had pricked him so hard he had to come out pratting on the airwaves? An American newspaper editor once described the media as the oxygen of democracy. If it were so in Ghana, I dare say journalists such as Mr. Baako are just simply suffocating our democracy with carbon monoxide through their lies and not oxygen. As for the reaction of the NPP as a party, it only confirmed that corruption is synonymous with their name.
There are two things, may be three that I have concluded about Kweku Baako and his obsession with Former President Jerry Rawlings. First, he is corrupt and knows that President Jerry Rawlings can expose him so he runs to town all the time claiming he will strip JJ naked whenever he feels threats of exposure. Second thing without a doubt is that it has become pretty obvious Malik Kweku Baako craves so badly for the mention of his name by Former President Jerry Rawlings. He hopes to be dignified by that singular act which he has never been able to obtain. And this has been a psychological torture for him. If not, why should he particularly out of thousands of journalist demand such naming? He had obviously come to the clear conclusion that Ghanaians understood the former President correctly and had narrowed it to his name Kwaku Baako. I remember the day the news was first aired, and the subsequent days following the Ouagadougou speech, every joint, every group of minds, in many homes, and in many cars, in offices, on the internet, majority(discerning Ghanaians) all said they’re sure that the unnamed ‘compromised Ghanaian journalist’ mentioned by former President Rawlings is Kweku Baako. Why, because it is public knowledge.
It is not a secret or rather it is an open secret that the owner of the crusading guide newspaper had to part ways with Kweku Baako because he(Kwaku Baako) was using the paper as cover to earn such colossal sums of dollars from the Kufour government without investing a penny of it into that business. Of course, that was not Mr. Baako’s legal business and he could not invest his unethically acquired dollars into the legal establishment of crusading guide newspaper. But he found a way to invest it anyway in the ‘new crusading guide’. We can all testify that there is absolutely nothing new in that newspaper for us.
Kweku Baako should not throw his weight about as if the entire history of this nation has been micro-chipped into his head under lock and key. He is one of a few journalists who have openly violated his own professed principles and ideals. He has contradicted himself so much so that he has become morally corrupted and now he walks about without any moral dilemmas. His psychological anxiety reached a zenith when he suddenly swapped faith and announced his conversion into Islam-bringing a change only to his name. If he claims to be a senior journalist-a title that is self proclaimed- and knows all the things he claims to know, then he should be doing the youth of this nation some good by committing his knowledge permanently on paper.
Because isn’t it a shame, as one of my friends put it, that the two most talking heads, the two co cofusionists, the so called senior journalists, the two most dangerous threats to our polity, Kwesi Pratt and Kwaku Baako have not written any books yet. They only carry ‘documents’. Or have they? All they do is go on radio and talk their heads off. Rather they should do like other senior journalists in other nations are doing-commit their thoughts and knowledge permanently to paper-unless they cannot do so honestly without exposing their ‘double selves’. Or are they waiting for a crazy, overly indulging, and escapading British Craig Murray to come and do that for us?
The truth is one. And according to Dr. Maulana Karenga, an African-African philosopher, the main task of history is to unearth the truth and speak it. Let’s unearth it. Let’s speak it.
SaCut Amenga-Etego
(YFL General Secretary and NDC youth activist)
I have no doubts in my mind that the most compromised journalist during the Kofour regime was the editor-in-chief of the crusading guide newspaper Abdul Malik Kweku Baako who is now the managing editor of the new crusading Guide newspaper. Those who have followed our political intrigues carefully and with a sixth sense know that the new crusading guide newspaper owned and managed by Mr. Baako now is a direct outcome of the journalistic corruption in the reign of President Kufour.
Why, were we not in this country when reports were made open about the efforts by the Kwamena Bartels- led ministry of information to provide a media buffer for the NPP government through a planned and projected corruption and compromises of specific and ‘influential journalists’ in Ghana? Did the list not include Kweku Baako, Egbert Faigbile who invested his compromise in the Ghanaian Observer newspaper and Kwame Sefa Kaye of peace fm? Did the minister ever deny this story at the time? Absolutely no! And yet, there are many undocumented sources and cast iron evidence that confirm this as a fact.
As part of the projected corruption plan of the Kufour led government and executed by Kwamena Bartels, these so-called senior journalists had state of the art high speed internet infrastructure set up for them at their various operating points in Accra. Not only that, it was also reported at the time that these named journalists received an average of US$15.000 a month for the purpose of covering up the truth and serving as hatchet men of media buffer for the Kufour regime. Let the former information minister Kwamena Bartels deny that he didn’t have a policy or practice, official or unofficial at the information ministry where he specifically induced the named journalists and their hirelings with cash, presidential travels and other inducements if indeed, he believes in the truth.
And if you cannot call a man corrupt; who claims to be an Nkrumaist or a CPP but who don’t only openly work against this same group and its leadership, but actually endorses and works for its opponents, who then is corrupt? If you cannot call a man who has permanent interests without enduring principles that can stand the test of time compromised, who then is corrupt? In my books, the most compromised individual in any polity is one who acts as a ‘double agent’ for both government and opposition forces. I double doubt if Mr Baako will pass this test going through our history.
Some of us, young as we may be, find it very appalling that this publicly corrupt journalist will have monopoly over the biggest airwaves in Ghana today to pontificate and castigate others as liars. In my view, a scheming journalist who receives money, travel incentives, Ad contracts and other largesse from a government to compromise him on the truth lacks the morality to cast a stone at anyone for lying.
Let me put this into context; when former president Rawlings alleged in a speech in Ouagadougou that there were such compromised journalists in Ghana who earned US$10.000 during a certain regime, the responses from both the NPP and specifically Kwaku Baako was revealing and/or even exposing. There are a thousand and one journalists in Ghana. It will be interesting to know why it was Malik Baako in particular who was demanding that he publicly names that compromised journalist. Was it because Mr. Baako’s conscience had pricked him so hard he had to come out pratting on the airwaves? An American newspaper editor once described the media as the oxygen of democracy. If it were so in Ghana, I dare say journalists such as Mr. Baako are just simply suffocating our democracy with carbon monoxide through their lies and not oxygen. As for the reaction of the NPP as a party, it only confirmed that corruption is synonymous with their name.
There are two things, may be three that I have concluded about Kweku Baako and his obsession with Former President Jerry Rawlings. First, he is corrupt and knows that President Jerry Rawlings can expose him so he runs to town all the time claiming he will strip JJ naked whenever he feels threats of exposure. Second thing without a doubt is that it has become pretty obvious Malik Kweku Baako craves so badly for the mention of his name by Former President Jerry Rawlings. He hopes to be dignified by that singular act which he has never been able to obtain. And this has been a psychological torture for him. If not, why should he particularly out of thousands of journalist demand such naming? He had obviously come to the clear conclusion that Ghanaians understood the former President correctly and had narrowed it to his name Kwaku Baako. I remember the day the news was first aired, and the subsequent days following the Ouagadougou speech, every joint, every group of minds, in many homes, and in many cars, in offices, on the internet, majority(discerning Ghanaians) all said they’re sure that the unnamed ‘compromised Ghanaian journalist’ mentioned by former President Rawlings is Kweku Baako. Why, because it is public knowledge.
It is not a secret or rather it is an open secret that the owner of the crusading guide newspaper had to part ways with Kweku Baako because he(Kwaku Baako) was using the paper as cover to earn such colossal sums of dollars from the Kufour government without investing a penny of it into that business. Of course, that was not Mr. Baako’s legal business and he could not invest his unethically acquired dollars into the legal establishment of crusading guide newspaper. But he found a way to invest it anyway in the ‘new crusading guide’. We can all testify that there is absolutely nothing new in that newspaper for us.
Kweku Baako should not throw his weight about as if the entire history of this nation has been micro-chipped into his head under lock and key. He is one of a few journalists who have openly violated his own professed principles and ideals. He has contradicted himself so much so that he has become morally corrupted and now he walks about without any moral dilemmas. His psychological anxiety reached a zenith when he suddenly swapped faith and announced his conversion into Islam-bringing a change only to his name. If he claims to be a senior journalist-a title that is self proclaimed- and knows all the things he claims to know, then he should be doing the youth of this nation some good by committing his knowledge permanently on paper.
Because isn’t it a shame, as one of my friends put it, that the two most talking heads, the two co cofusionists, the so called senior journalists, the two most dangerous threats to our polity, Kwesi Pratt and Kwaku Baako have not written any books yet. They only carry ‘documents’. Or have they? All they do is go on radio and talk their heads off. Rather they should do like other senior journalists in other nations are doing-commit their thoughts and knowledge permanently to paper-unless they cannot do so honestly without exposing their ‘double selves’. Or are they waiting for a crazy, overly indulging, and escapading British Craig Murray to come and do that for us?
The truth is one. And according to Dr. Maulana Karenga, an African-African philosopher, the main task of history is to unearth the truth and speak it. Let’s unearth it. Let’s speak it.
SaCut Amenga-Etego
(YFL General Secretary and NDC youth activist)
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