I have been compelled to come out of hibernation to wade into the squeamishly ugly opulence being displayed by the ruling NDC Communication Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, in an alleged video clip.
The alleged video clip is disgustingly showing the aforesaid gentleman, unabashedly doling out thousands of the United States dollars to the well-wishers. How bizarre?
The seemingly reprehensible conduct has raised concerns as to whether the said protagonist is a modest and unpretentious man to oversee Ghana’s Gold Board.
Ghana does not need men and women, who are illimitably immersed in a gamut of shenanigans, impudence, and irredeemable impishness to oversee important positions.
If you would recall, it was the same NDC’s Communication Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, conspicuously doused in a gamut of emotions, audaciously came out during the 2020 voter registration exercise and issued threats to the security forces, whose only crime was to discharge their constitutionally mandated duty (see: We’ll deal with you mercilessly when we come to power – Sammy Gyamfi threatens recalcitrant soldiers, policemen – ABC News, 23/07/2020).
Sammy Gyamfi is said to have asserted somewhat brashly and impertinently: “Notice is hereby served to all unscrupulous Security Officials who have lent themselves to the despotic Akufo-Addo government as plaint agents of violence against innocent citizens, that the next NDC government will fish them out and deal with them mercilessly when power eventually shifts.”
“What the plan is and we are telling them all the people there they are making…the Police officers there, they are making their Police Career… The Military Officers, they are making their career in the Military, that respected State Security Agency coterminous with that of President Akufo-Addo. The day President Akufo-Addo will exit office will be the last day they will serve as Policemen and Military men and we will deal with them mercilessly. That is the message we are sending across to them”, a furious Sammy Gyamfi at a press briefing on Wednesday- July 22 2020 (SOURCE: www.Ghgossip.com).
Ghana’s cyclical socio-economic hardships, the inequalities and the rampant bribery and corruption, to some extent, give credence to the erudite writer, George Orwell’s narrated account of the animal farm.
George Orwell recounts that when the leaders of the farm were trying to gain their freedom from man, they brainwashed their followers in believing that, “all men are enemies. All animals are comrades.” Their usual slogan was, “Four legs good, two legs bad.” “Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.”
Ironically, after attaining their freedom from the two legs enemy, the vast majority of the ‘four legs animals’ did not enjoy the freedom, as the “elites” amongst them continued the suppression. Is George Orwell’s story not telling Ghana’s sad case? Verily, George Orwell’s animal farm story tells Ghana’s sorrowful story.
Our Founding Fathers’ came together and fought the common enemy-the colonial masters, in what they saw as oppressive rule. Yes, our Founding Fathers’ sought to resist the colonial masters’ suppression, which in my humble opinion, was a laudable feat.
But as to whether the vast majority of Ghanaians have gained socio-economic and fundamental freedoms following Ghana’s independence, is a question that would be opened to different interpretations.
As George Orwell narrates the animal farm story, Ghana’s independence has benefited and continues to benefit only a few-the greedy politicians. This is an illustrative case of “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
In spite of the economic hardships, some politicians live opulent lifestyles to the detriment of the masses. How bizarre?
I daresay in so far as the elites among the ‘ four legs animals’ continue to exhibit unbridled selfishness, lack of patriotism, and look down on the ‘four legs lumpenproletariats’, Ghana may never develop meaningfully in our lifetime.
We would like to plead with the Special Prosecutor, the Ghana Police, CHRAJ, EOCO, and all well-meaning investigative bodies to probe into Sammy Gyamfi’s somewhat superfluous wealth, as a matter of urgency.
K. Badu, UK.
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