Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe

Unless the lame-duck President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo personally commissioned and/or personally authorized the erection of the statuary representation of Ghana's Fifth, Fourth-Republican President himself, one absolutely does not see any reason why the passionately pro-National Democratic Congress (NDC) and rabidly anti-Akufo-Addo media goon by the name of Nana Afia Pokuaa Kantimpo - aka The Vim Lady - should be bitterly complaining about the timing of the construction of the aforesaid statue at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital's rotary or roundabout in the Sekondi-Takoradi Municipality in the twin-city capital of the Western Region (See “ Akufo-Addo's 'sinful' statue unveiling may affect Bawumia's 2024 electoral chances — Vim Lady ” Modernghana.com 11/8/24).

As the election and the ballot-rigging leadership of the country's main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), chaperoned by its National

When you add it all up, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has held the democratic reins of governance in Ghana's Fourth-Republican Dispensation for half of the 32 years of its duration, thus far; plus, the preceding 10 years that the leadership of the latter institutional establishment, led by the late Chairman Jeremiah “Jerry” John Rawlings, hermetically occupied the affairs of our nation as the bloodthirsty “revolutionary” junta of the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC).

If you asked Mr. Johnson “The Mosquito” Asiedu-Nketia to name a single cross-regional social-intervention program or project initiated by the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that has positively benefited the entire nation, over the entire 32-year course of Ghana's Fourth-Republican dispensation, such as the John “The Gentle Giant” Agyekum-Kufuor-implemented, low-premium National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), trust me, Dear Reader, the recent superannuated graduate of the Senior-Staff College of the Ghana Armed Forces would not be able to name any, including the landmark and the historically unprecedented Akufo-Addo-implemented Fee-Free Universally Accessible Senior High, Vocational, Technical and STEM Education System.

Nikki Haley, the Punjabi-Indian-descended American citizen and former South Carolina Republican Party-sponsored Governor, was the very first major woman politician here in the United States of America to call the competence, intelligence and leadership viability of Vice-President Kamala Devi Harris into serious question, in a scurrilous bid to preemptively railroading the half-Tamil-Nadu Indian-descended former Attorney-General of the State of California's run for the White House. So, her sudden 11th-hour turnaround to strategically admonish her rabidly and pathologically racist and misogynistic fellow Republicans, largely White Ultra-Conservative Republicans, to more studiously and searingly focus on what Ms. Haley termed as Vice-President Harris' irredeemable flaws, if they wanted to be successful or effective in deep-sixing Kamala Harris' epic rise and short-cuited journey into full-occupancy of the Oval Office, was really no spiritually and/or psychologically redeeming epiphany at all.

I have said this before and, here again, repeat the same once more - which is that in 2009 and 2010, when the tandem Mills-Mahama regimes of the National Democratic Congress occupied the seat and the helm of governance in Ghana's Fourth Republic, a global survey of some 145 public school systems conducted by the renowned and the prestigious United Nations-sponsored Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), headquartered in the French capital of Paris, had Ghana listed at the very bottom of this global ranking. This information can be readily accessed via the Internet.

His criminally violent past media performance track record and sloppiness, including once listing former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on a program celebrating Ghana's Independence as substantive President of the Sovereign Democratic Republic of Ghana, instead of Guest Speaker, continues to sharply grip him by the balls, as New York City residents are wont to say.

What National Peace Campaign Launch or Movement could the twice-rejected, one-term former President John “I Have No Classmates in Ghana” Dramani

When he characteristically peevishly asserts that life under his Dumsor-blanketed regime was far better than life under the present twice-elected Akufo-Addo Administration, Candidate John “I Have No Classmates in Ghana” Dramani Mahama conveniently ignores to remind his Tamale-Central Constituency audience, in the Northern Region, and the national at large, that the previous tandem Mills-Mahama regimes resulted in the permanent destruction of at least 60-percent of all jobs in the country, both state and privately owned (See “ 'Our lives were far better under my administration than Akufo-Addo and Bawumia's — Mahama ” Modernghana.com 11/4/24).

It is not clear to this writer that the brouhaha surrounding the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital's unveiling of the life-size statue of lame-duck