Did I hear him right, or I was only hallucinating? Bernard Antwi Boasiako aka Chairman Wontumi, the strongest NPP Ashanti regional Chairman is in video and on-air wailing, appealing for interventional help from President John Dramani Mahama.
The NDC seem to be all out to cripple him physically, emotionally, and financially, both forgetting that no condition is permanent. Wontumi had his hay days throughout the entire 8 years rule by NPP. He decided who could win or lose the NPP primaries election in Ashanti region, commanding respect rather than earning it.
His lopsided weight was felt heavily when it came to deciding who could win election to become the District or Municipal/Metropolitan Chief Executive (MMDCE) in Ashanti region. Little did he realise that no condition is permanent, but are all temporary like the morning dew or mist that evaporates upon the rising Sun.
I am not the type of person that gloats at the suffering of his enemies, let alone, a colleague NPP’s. However, it must be brought to the attention of Wontumi and all those politicians behaving similarly that no condition is permanent but only time will tell what tomorrow will bring.
Wontumi was alleged to be behind the humiliation and maltreatment of the late MP Philip Basoa of Kumawu constituency, during the election of Samuel Addai Agyekum as Kumawu District DCE for a second term in office.
Basoa was barred from entering the venue where the election was taking place by armed police and military personnel, although as MP, he had the constitutional right to be present at the venue.
This humiliation he suffered was alleged to have been orchestrated by Wontumi and then Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei Mensah. Where is their power now to subdue people as they did to my father-in-law, the late Philip Basoa, during their reign in Ashanti region or Ghana?
As said in 1 Corinthians 15:55, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”, where now is the power of Chairman Wontumi to intimidate people or lord himself over them? Zilch! What a good example or case of no condition is permanent, better explained in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance; a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away; a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace”.
Those in political power, both past and present, should learn to discharge their duties in faith and honestly, treating people with respect and dignity, for there will come a time that the power they have will be taken away from them to reduce them to ordinary persons like those they rule over.
Wontumi, I sympathise with you. “It’s really through adversity that great friends are discovered and wicked friends are revealed”. It is now that you will see your true friends and fair-weather friends.
I pray NDC and the laws in Ghana treat you fairly without any abuses for they will themselves be faced with Matthew 7:2 – “For with the judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you”.
