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Every Ghanaian citizen of good faith has the right to express his opinion. But, of course, as the blasé saying goes: "The facts are sacred and indisputable." Ghanaians prefer to make this quote as follows: "There is only one truth." And this truth, even as Ya-Naa Abukari or Ndan Yaan Naa, himself, categorically declared during his recent coronation or coronation at Yendi, the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Dagomba, that President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is the only elected Ghanaian leader who has conclusively solved the long, nightmarish war raged between the Andani and Abudu gates of the Dagbon royal family for about two decades. In fact, quarrels have punctuated the two royal gates Dagbon since time immemorial. The author of the opinion piece titled "Shoot This Billboard" could not claim to be more aware of the real brain behind the recent resolution of the Dagbon Crisis or the Yendi chiefdom, or could it? And that's my case (See "Take down this billboard" Ghanaweb.com 4/15/19).
You see, President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has recorded so many enviable achievements over the past two years, since he's badumed the reins of democratic and constitutional governance in a way that the same can not be said of the much younger and more ambitious former president but much less talented John Dramani Mahama, the benefactor and sometimes political payer of the article's author in discussion. So, I find that this miserable claim to a manifestly non-existent controversy is nothing but scandalously pathetic. The fact is that it is true that at the time of the brutal, barbaric and primitive beheading of Ya-Naa Yakubu Andani, II, in 2002, Nana Akufo-Addo was the Attorney General and Minister of President John Agyekum. -Kufuor. The Minister of the Interior, under whose direct jurisdiction the protection and security of Dagbon Overlord and his courtiers fell.
Nana Akufo-Addo has been taken into account only in the political equation with regard to the arrest and prosecution of suspects. Thus, it is quite obvious that the seemingly hateful critic is cunningly trying to identify or functionally link Nana Akufo-Addo's portfolio as Attorney General and Minister of Justice to the unfortunate and tragic events that precipitated the Yakubu Andani regicide. . In fact, any such dishonest attempt to badociate the current President Akufo-Addo with the wild Ya-Naa mbadacre will have no consequence. Not even by the most poetic imagination and "apoplectic" – my sincere and deep apologies to virulent criticism.
In any event, we must not forget that, as Vice-President of the Democratic Republic of Ghana and second in command of President Kufuor, Alhaji Aliu Mahama had a much greater responsibility for the security of Yao. Naa Yakubu Andani, II, as Nana Akufo-Addo. In addition, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, deceased, was a well-known supporter and a bona fide member of the Dagbon Royal Family. Therefore, any despicable attempt to scapegoat Nana Akufo-Addo is inexcusably absurd and speaks even less of what is downright absurd.
Now, it is also the austere ignorant who could so cavalierly claim to privilege the intimate, but intimate, links between The Ya-Naa and The Asantehene beyond the ancient blood ties between The Okyenhene and The Asantehene. The cholera critic should have conducted honest research before baduming such a scandalously discordant observation within the ethnic group. I also do not see where the so-called billboard is located – not that it would make a big difference to the undeniably heroic exploits of President Akufo-Addo – but if it is in Accra, then just about all I can say Is mainly Akyemfuo and Akwamufuo, but the Akans in general are absolutely not strangers to the geographical limits of our national capital.
The critic may also want to verify the historical relationship between the Akyem and the Ga. In the end, it is a very bad service that the critic allows himself to presume so easily to project his own insecurities and his ethnocentric anxieties. on Nana Akufo-Addo, or resemblance. his prejudices against any other group of Ghanaians, let alone the great and ingenious people of Akyem-Mansa. We have gone too far, in terms of cultural enlightenment and education, to be brought back to the pathetic level of those who seem to prosper perpetually and shamelessly by sowing seeds of animosity and interethnic conflict.
* Visit my blog at the address: kwameokoampaahoofe.wordpress.com Ghanaffairs
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Department of English, SUNY-Nbadau
Garden City, New York
April 19, 2019
E-mail: [email protected]
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