There is some cacophony blowing across the land. Standing on the imaginary neutral line, that is assuming that a human with emotions at any point in time can be neutral, I see expectant excitement on the left while equally seeing expectant anxiety from the right of the divide. The people belonging to the left are eagerly awaiting the arrival or to be more precise the outdooring of someone they hope will help them wrestle power that will lead them to the shores of glory and authority at least for but a short period. Their hope at least for now is supposedly ideas war where they forcefully and rightfully so keep selling that they hold the key to transform the wretched lives of the children of the land of our birth. Experience on the other hand tells us that this kind of people almost always metamorphose into arrogant blood sucking vampires as soon as they land on the fringes of the glorious seat of power. For now we know them by their colours, they call it social contract in which they make promise of offer and the masses sheepishly mandate them to execute the contract.
The other people on the right side of the divide are expectantly anxious because the process today could potentially spell the doom for their ill-gotten spoils and booty at the expense of the suffering masses. They arrived at the land of glory some 39 months ago also on a fantastic social contract. After attaining their goal, they arrogantly turned round to add insult to the injury of the suffering masses by telling them that 'the social contract' was a 'political platform talk' and thus they never intended as a matter of fact to keep it. They even had the gut to suggest in some instances that the suffering masses should have been smarter enough to see and know beforehand that it was not feasible and realistic to expect the fulfilment of the social contract. Now with just 9 calendar months to the expiration of their mandate, they are hot and praying that whoever the man leading the brotherhood on the left picks will be a mice meat for them. The ideal way to destroy the impending competition to be posed by the left is to vilify the characters of their chosen leaders. In so doing, the suffering masses will be emotionally aroused and as psychologists can confirm, emotion and rationality negatively correlate. If you can't beat them, they suggest you confuse them.
Well, sorry if you are lost regarding the point I am trying to put across. I am referring to the expected announcement later today Thursday March 29,2012 of the New Patriotic Party's running mate for Ghana's 2012 presidential poll on December 7. I really don't think anybody he chooses will make any difference to the lives of millions of the suffering Ghanaians. It is not that I don't believe in the competency of the names of the men that have so far been mentioned, but my reason stems from the way I perceive how politicians play the game they call 'politics'. As I write this piece at 10:56am, I can hear Kofi Kum-Bilson spinning Cindy Thompson's 2000 hit track, Awurade Kasa (God speak). I believe you know what I am inferring here. You see, they used that emotional gospel tune to incite people's hope of a land flowing with 'milk and honey' and yet this promise was never delivered. The game of politics and organisation of political entities revolve around the concept of 'brotherhood'. This concept of "brotherhood" operates and survives on the pretense of providing far much superior protection and meeting the needs (i.e. goods and services) of the masses better than their political opponents could ever offer. This is based on the concept of social contract whereby a document outlining fantastic ideas for transformation is produced. This however degenerates into an oppression of the masses as soon as they gain the mandate of masses at the polls. Thus the term can be likened to a group of "respected" people for being charismatic in their thinking and proposals to decisively resolve societal malaise. Please don't get fooled by this brotherhood, they are slightly but inexorably synonymous with organised crime groups. For this reason, no matter who is picked today, he is powerless before the brotherhood and it is their bidding rather than the needs of the masses that will be satisfied provided they succeed in winning the Presidential poll on December. I can bet my last pesewa that the running mate is nothing more than a maffoof.
According to the Urban Dictionary Maffoof is someone completely amazing, perfect and who you can totally trust and who really makes you happy all the time. Somebody who cares about you and who YOU WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR. Do you get the analogy? If you are still at sea; brotherhood.
I dare repeat the Teacher's words:
"All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.
What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun".
and what has been done is what will be done,
and there is nothing new under the sun".
You will attest to this statement in exactly 4 years from now. The Akans have a proverb which goes like 'Obi nnim a, obi kyere' (If one does not know, another man teaches him. Men depend on one another for knowledge.) Welcome to the brotherhood Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia!!!
