President Mahama: “Ahwene pa nkasa”

Someone please “invite [President Mahama] to stop whining” or quit pulling the Trump-card. May be both.

Ghana's President Mahama

And also remind him “Ahwene pa nkasa” [good beads do not talk/market themselves]: that the “good performance” of his government would certainly get noticed by the good people of Ghana if they deserve to be acknowledged.

African beads

He has on most campaign platforms criticized opposition parties particularly the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for belittling his government’s achievements.

And the media has not been spared from what is often his propaganda denunciations on campaign platforms.

President John Mahama on Tuesday October 18 suggested the media has been bias towards his government citing unnamed “certain group [that] has taken control of the media” who either stretch the truth or repel information of the better Ghana agenda from reaching the masses.

“We have taken access to water from 58 percent in 2008 to 78 percent today. Small town water systems, boreholes all across this country have been constructed. We have eradicated guinea worm”, he said in an exclusive interview with Ovation International Flagstaff Magazine at the House in Accra.

And says his government's achievements are not reaching Ghanaians because some persons in the media are sieving them out insisting if the media would be balance and objective in their reportage it would be the reverse.

"His [Akufo-Addo] thinking of Kasoa Interchange is that it is just a bridge. Kasoa Interchange is made up of three bridges. There is a main interchange and then two bridges to enable the people of East Kasoa and West Kasoa cross to the other halves of the city”, myjoyonline.com reported the president as saying.

For a sitting president to cry foul – “I can’t think far”: it is beyond tasteless.

If President John Mahama sees himself at the losing end after the December 7 General Elections the media would be the last to blame. Perhaps never.

Because the country’s media have among other things failed to provide editorial opinions on the presidential candidates and their so-called achievements to propel its agenda setting role: the media has the responsibility to make a clear case base on facts as to which presidential candidate is best to be the country's commander-in-chief.

For now - the president has ample time to get his achievements and campaign messages to the people. May be.

He should spare our ears the failures of his cocky surrogates and communicators.

This write up has been updated.

By Crabbe Nathaniel/cmcghana.blogspot.com

With No Apology - Charlotte Osei Has Got More Than Balls!

Caution: this write up has graphic words.

By Crabbe Nathaniel.

With all the doom and brute being expressed across Ghana's political divides - more than political correctness has been shredded by sharks - NO - "[men] with sharp teeth".

Even Dr. Dr. Hassan Ayariga of the All People's Congress' apology to the Electoral Commission's boss after his sour-grape-insults would not suffice.

And an endorsement of a "dance-hall king" - whose person and songs sexually objectifies women, pompously expresses alarming bigotry accompanied by vile insults on individuals and respectable establishments says everything about our society.

Perhaps you or they should take a listen at Shatta Wale's "Womaami Tw3" [your mother's pussy] ft S. A. And if you don't pause after the first five toxic words then maybe you are part of everything wrong with how we treat women.

Yet - in the face of all the doom and buffoonery - Charlotte Osei doesn't need to show she's got balls to prove her worth: That she is equally capable to handle the affairs of the Electoral Commission (EC) as its CHAIRWOMAN.

After all those male-balls are overly sensitive and weak: the vagina takes some real pounding - even from "anaconda" dicks that end up nursing blue balls.

Too bad most people feel patriarchally entitled or indoctrinated - who have to - with much hesitation admit that women like their male counterparts are equally capable. Only after they've proven themselves over and over. When they finally do - some ill persons would swear by their lives that they allowed men to "grab them by the pussy".

And that would be far charitable an accusation. Goodness!

For some - it would be far more easy for a "camel to go through the eye of a needle" than for them to admit that women are equally capable.

Better that - than bruise their inherent and acquired egos.

Disagree if you may.

But ask yourself why you or most people only admitted Charlotte Osei is capable of performing her responsibilities as EC Chairperson after she spearheaded the disqualification of thirteen persons who were hoping to contest the country’s presidential elections and a further in December this year but failed to meet the necessary requirements in filing their nomination forms.

Even after breaking the glass ceiling - she had to execute the exceptional to prove her worth and get many twisted minds on her side.

Again you may disagree.

Yet the crippling stereotype is real: most men have been raised with all the wrong perceptions or interpretations that "they are the head" and women the "neck". That men are to lead and dominate.

And only admit that women are equals and equally capable to appear politically correct. Often if not more!

Hardly would they admit to more.

Not long after her appointment - all hell was let loose: "it's a man's job", many asserted.

Sad to admit that some women also posited the repulsively ugly idea that she's not got [what it takes to do the job].

But those gentle bullies were much kind: she was about to suffer far worse.

Member of Parliament for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong, spat sexist-venom about the EC chairperson whilst addressing party supporters at a rally in Kumasi: "Charlotte Osei bring your buttocks (sexual affair) in exchange of EC Chair position (fawoto be gye golf)”,Yen.com.gh reported.

Such "patriarchal nonsense" is enabled by our cultural, traditional and religious settings. And perpetuated by persons with a double dose of insolence.

But just so you know or have forgotten - misogyny is greatly about keeping women down: creating special zones of reality and morality or standards, conditions that bars women from attaining their utmost potentials.

Although Madam Charlotte Osei is yet to champion to her credit any peaceful elections - the verdict was given even before she started the raise. Coupled with the distasteful narrative that she is aligned to the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) hence couldn't be objective.

Her predecessor Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan is and would be her standard. Hardly her enviable credentials.

Being the first woman to hold that position - she's not allowed to fail: she reflects the hopes and aspirations of millions of girls and women in the country.

And may have to deal with the belief of some individuals that women are not fit for the position she holds by constantly proving her worth.

Imagine the nuclear-like "pressure". And the brute-missiles being propelled at her.

You may say it comes with the job.

And I say that aside the toughness of being a woman - she needs a great dose of conscience if she hasn't got any, be incorruptible and credible.

Not the strength of a man or male-balls to play her role as EC well.

May be - far better!

Crabbe Nathaniel is a blogger of cmcghana.blogspot.com.

Dr. Dr. Hassan Ayariga of the All People's Congress

Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan