This Okudzeto Boy Must Seek Propriety And Decency!!!

“I was also accused of dipping my hands in state coffers to furnish my home; it is the biggest lie that was told. Unfortunately, it was told by people who should have known better.

I lived in my own house throughout my tenure of office and I have lived in that house since 1984, not a chair in that house was acquired by the state”. – Ex-President John Agyekum Kufuor.

I don’t want to believe Okudzeto-Ablakwa is one of the greedy bastards Rawlings once said have surrounded President Mills.

I also don’t want to believe he did not get good parental training when he was growing up in the Volta Region where he comes from. His parents, like any other parents, might have done their best to carve him well so that he could fit into society but he rather chose to go wayward. I would like to believe that he learnt his bad manners from some friends he associated himself with when he was at school. Peer influence can sometimes be dangerous.

If he is a mole as Anthony Abayefa Karbo, the NPP National Youth Organizer wanted the world to know, then he deserves to serve his new masters the way he is doing.

After all, do you expect him to bite the finger that fed him? Sometimes, I have this funny belief that he is always ‘high’ on some substance anytime he is assigned by his superiors to come out with a statement, and as such instead of using the right choice of words, his muddy brain deceives him to go haywire.

This is a boy who is gradually carving a name for himself as one who is so reckless that he wouldn’t mind taking his father to the cleaners for the sake of satisfying his employer.

Since this hitherto unemployed boy got the job as a deputy minister, he has grown feathers and uses unprintable words to describe men and women who have made it in life through the hard way.

I am aware since completing school, this boy never got any job and was roaming the streets of Accra until Mills offered him one as the Deputy Minister of Information.

(Or is it Deputy Minister of Mis-information?) Because the devil finds work for the idle hands, he was used by the Committee for Joint Action (CJA) during their ‘cross country’ demonstrations. It was this same boy who spoke rudely to then president Kufuor during one of the peoples’ assembly held in Accra.

His misbehaviour that day forced ex-president Kufuor to advise him to see reason and speak well before elders since he will also grow one day.

He seems to be suffering from infantile disorders as he continues to treat our former president with ordinary contempt and disdain. He has started again but this time he has struck a rock and he is going to be crushed by boulders.

If he thinks he can provoke confrontations by using offensive language, then somebody out there should tell him to wear a crash helmet from now onwards.

Ablakwa has thrown a gauntlet and surely he should expect the ripples. When upstarts like Ablakwa start to question the integrity of others, we need to advise them to avoid arrogance because if they continue to do so, the dew of dawn will soak them. Those who are prodding him on are killing his political career, knowingly or unknowingly.

President Mills’ intension to bring on board the youth in his government is a laudable idea but sadly, people like Samuel Okudzeto-Ablakwa, who never signed a pay slip until he landed this political job, is making a mess of the idea.

The Akans have a saying that if a man who has never bought meat in his life buys a liver, he shouts from the rooftop for people to bring an axe for him to cut the liver. It is so with this former ‘struggling man’. But should we blame him?

The answer is “no”, because here we are with a boy whose trademark forked teeth is gradually being covered by his protruding cheeks because ‘ide chop better’.

Imagine a person who never owned a Tico car before now riding fully air conditioned state of the art Landcruisers with police escort and a flashy bungalow to match! And so if he wears a smock and jumps into a four wheel drive Landcruiser, he starts to compare himself to achievers like former President Kufuor, who has enough visibility and recognition in relevant quarters worldwide.

This boy seems to be having delusions of grandeur. He needs our help because if we fail to help him to understand simple logic, our children may see him as a role model, and that too will not do us any good because he is not a role model. Ablakwa should seek decency, protocol and decorum before the sun sets on him.

The way this disrespectful boy took ex-president Kufuor to the cleaners when he was granted an interview by Ekuoba Gyasi of Adom FM, recently, should not be allowed to go without comments.

If we fail to whip people like Ablakwa into line, we may wake up one morning to hear him insulting the Pope. So today, Okudzeto too has become so important that he could open his big mouth with his forked teeth to insult our former Head of State?

Where was Okudzeto when Kufuor was educating his five children in universities? Have we reached a point where upstarts, who have found themselves in the corridors of power, can speak so rudely against accomplished and well respected gentlemen of this land called Ghana?

In my holy village, when a boy misbehaves the way Okudzeto did, we blame people he has associated himself with, because all what we say is, if they had advised him well, he would not have been so rude and reckless.

A former president had an opportunity to speak on the platform of his political party and charged the supporters of his party to work hard to bring their party back into power to fight corruption, which he rightly said was manifesting itself in the incumbent regime.

That statement alone peeved this small boy so much so that he dared to refer to the former president as the most corrupt person in Ghana, without given any reason except to say that his son bought a hotel and that he used the State’s money to renovate his house.

If these few words from a former president could send the whole government propaganda machinery grinding like ‘nika nika’, then I shudder to hear what will happen when the electioneering campaign starts. Meanwhile, the rumour mill grinds louder and louder everyday that Okudzeto Ablakwa, who could not rent a single room to occupy in Accra, amasses wealth.

Some even say he is constructing a multimillion dollar mansion somewhere within one and half years that he landed his first job in his hitherto miserable life. Where did he get money to build this mansion?

At 31years, Mr. Kufuor was a Deputy Foreign Minister and worked his way through to become the President of Ghana.

Suffice it to say that unlike President Mills, who was literally plucked from the Ivory Tower to become a Vice President on a silver platter, Kufuor went through the mill before reaching where he found himself as the Number One gentleman of the country.

This is a man who lived in his own house for the eight years that he ruled the nation, and never collected a pesewa as rent accruable to him.

If even it is true that he used the state’s money to renovate his house as this reckless boy wants the world to know, should it be a crime? Who paid for the renovation of the house of the mother of Nana Konadu?

You see, when we try to make sleeping dogs lie, people like Ablakwa open Pandora’s Box, thereby giving us the opportunity to hit back rather severely.

For now, Angel Gabriel will like to hide his bare knuckles until another time. But permit me to serve notice that if this boy is not advised to bridle his ugly mouth,……..(Aaah! Yooo!!! A word to the wise is in the North (sic!)

Source: ericbawah@yahoo.com/daily guide