The Gas call something “gbeshie” and some Ewes also have something to that effect.
This phenomenon affects otherwise very normal beings to do things that are very abnormal.
Politics in Ghana has assumed a very bad name today because some of the players do not want democracy to advance the cause of the people. This has assumed alarming proportions following the entry into politics of a gentleman who until 2008, was unknown, except his father’s exploits in the First Republic and the era of late Jerry John Rawlings.
Very “green” in politics in 2008, he was not feared by his opponents like what is happening today. It was not for nothing that former President J. A. Kufuor described Vice President Bawumia as “the Man of Destiny and Vision.”
Having suddenly become a colossus in our body politics over just a decade and for which the NDC and its leader, John Mahama have been looking for policy alternatives that can measure up to the digital economy.
It does not matter to the NDC the practicality of the policy alternatives so long as they can also tout it loud on the political landscape. Thus enters the 24-hour economy concept that John Mahama and the NDC leaders have tried incoherently to explain to the people. Sometimes they tell Ghanaians they are engaging in broad consultation especially with the business community to seek views about how to operationalise the theory.
Vice President Bawumia has dazzled the NDC to the extent although their bodies have life, they are unable to think far. That is why thus far, John Mahama has not been able to explain comprehensively to Ghanaians to understand what a 24- hour economy means. Those who are social media savvy are able to Google to get the Sydney model in far away Australia.
The NDC is only aping the Sydney model but have failed to tell Ghanaians that 24-hour economy does not work in the entire city.
The Bawumia phenomenon is giving certain people in Ghana sleepless nights.
These can be found in the NDC leadership supported by some journalists, academia and civil society as well as some merchants of God calling themselves Men of God.
Having failed in his prediction that the NPP would not vote for Vice President Bawumia because he is from the North, Franklin Fifi Fiavi Kwetey, the General Secretary of the NDC, rather than apologise for his gaffe has resorted to other lies and propaganda that would make the father of all misinformation, Goebbels, envious of him.
And is General Mosquito aware of how the printing presses in Accra New Town, otherwise referred to as the Fleet Street of Accra, do their work? They operate in the night to put finishing touches to their work? These printers are already operating a 24-hour economy. And the NDC must also be told that certain Ghanaian dishes are not “eatable” in the night. The NDC are simply a bunch of hypocrites who are opposed to policies to advance our development.
The same group that is advocating a 24-hour economy to encourage local manufacturers to produce more asked its Minority members in Parliament to oppose the NPP government’s restriction of the importation of certain items for which Ghana has the economies of scale.
The Bawumia phenomenon has confused the NDC leadership as “gbeshie” has afflicted them all.