Listening devices Planted in Minister’s office
When people become desperate, they become more dangerous than a wounded lion. They hit their heads against rocks and boulders and bare their teeth, ready to bite anyone who comes their way. They even refuse to think. The defeated NDC are like wounded lion and as such they are very dangerous. There are so many skeletons hidden in their cupboards and now that they are out of power fear is written boldly on their faces. One of such persons is Mr. Inusah Fuseini, former minister of Lands and Natural Resources.
If Mr. Inusah Fuseini thinks accepting the fact that he planted the bugging device should end the case, I think he is playing with fire. The matter is very serious and must not be swept under the carpet. Mr. Fuseini, a Muslim and an Alhaji for that matter is in a better position to understand that the Holy Prophet Mohammed (May peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) frowns upon eavesdropping. Let him ask the Muslim clerics and they will tell him the seriousness of what he did and the punishment that awaits him when he dies. If the NPP government treats this case as nothing but a mistake by Mr. Fuseini’s forgetfulness to remove the device, they would be doing so at their own risk. Who knows the number of devices hidden in other offices and the information those devices are transmitting to the command centers of the NDC? Even though it is a common knowledge that corruption, thievery of state assets, ineptitude, insults, disrespect of Ghanaians, incompetence among other vices led to the disgraceful lost of power by the NDC, they still have the funny idea that Ghanaians will give them the nod again to misrule the nation. And you know what? Ghanaians will never forgive the NPP if the party sits down for these nation wreckers to hold the reins of power again.
In the run-up to the 2012 general election when the NDC saw that the party was losing power, they condoned and connived with a certain telecom company in Ghana to tap telephone numbers of prominent persons in the NPP. That telecom company is still operating in Ghana and seriously in bed with the NDC. Who knows what they are planning this time around? Do you remember when the NDC lost the 2016 general election, Mr. Kofi Adams, the National Organizer and Campaign Manager of the NDC came out boldly to tell the world that the NDC lost the election because of IT failure? The implication was that they might have tried to hack the EC computers to send cooked results from the regions but some smarter guys foiled that attempt. Either than that what has an IT failure got to do with losing an election? As for me I fear these people oh! Aah, yoo!
If a person like Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings comes out to tell Ghanaians that actually, the NDC never won any election genuinely in this country, then we need to be on the guard. Just imagine the full assurance they gave to their supporters that winning the 2016 general election was a foregone conclusion and juxtapose it with Koku Anyidoho’s balderdash now popularly called “We are in a comfortable lead” and you will side with me that these guys always have a plan “B” behind their wicked minds. What was at the back of Koku Anyodoho’s mind when he gave that concrete assurance to the teeming supporters of the NDC? Probably he had the silly idea that if anything fails the IT will never fail them. Or may be he was suffering from infantile disorders and harboring madness in his protruding stomach.
Just look at the scenario. You are the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources who was charged to make sure galamsey operations are stopped in the country in order to save the environment and our river bodies. You commission an expert to install a bugging device in your office which has the capacity of picking whispers 35 feet away and the device was installed since 2013. When you were leaving office you parked bag and baggage and all the monies in your drawer. In fact, you even took away your framed pictures fixed on the walls and all along a device was hidden behind the Coat of Arms fixed on the wall rightly behind your office desk but you are telling Ghanaians today that four years ago you forgot to remove the device and until the National Security detected the device you still did not know that you asked someone to install the device which was meant for eavesdropping and transmitting information to an undisclosed location. To add insult to injury, you are telling Ghanaians that the device never worked. Dreamer, what was a device which was not operational doing at where you hide it from public view? If it were to be in other jurisdictions Mr. Inusah Fuseini would have found himself at the psychiatric hospital for the doctors to check his mental state before hauling him to court. It is not normal for a lawyer of his stature to be so reckless.
Even before the shameful act of Inusah Fuseini could die, the Acting CEO of National Youth Authority has revealed that a tracking device was found in the vehicle handed over to him by the former CEO, Ras Mubarak. Accepting the allegation, Ras Mubarak worsened his defense when he said they have bigger fishes in the NPP whose vehicle needed to be tracked than that of Mr. Asigiri. Listen to him: “I can assure listeners and the acting CEO that he will be the last person whose movement I will like to monitor. There are too many bigger fishes in the NPP to want to track than somebody at the NYA.” Apart from the fact that Ras Mubarak’s comment is an affront to Mr. Asigiri, he was serving notice that bigger fishes in the NPP should watch out because their vehicles will be tracked and the devices might have already been fixed in their vehicles. My brother, we are dealing with crooks, I can swear to high heavens!
But my cherished reader, have you taken time to know where people in the NDC who are always in the news for bad reasons come from? Listen to the list. The Asongtaaba and the migrated guinea fowls who are yet to return from Burkina Faso, the National Service Scheme rip off, the Muntaka ‘kyinkyinga’ mess, Abuga Pele and Philip Akpeena Assibit GYEEDA scam, the Inusa Fuseini bugging disgrace, the Ras Mubarak tracking device palava, Salifu Maase and the Montie saga etc. They are all northerners and they all bear northern names which to me doesn’t argur well for some of us who come from the area. The NDC are very good at misusing people from the north for their benefit. Until President Akufo Addo established a separate ministry in charge for the development of the Zongos, all what the NDC wanted the people of the Zongo to do for them were to vote for them during elections and also use the youth of the Zongos to do their dirty work. Today, we have wised up and we refuse to play ball. Look at the results which came from the three northern regions during the 2016 general election and you will realize that, as the Akans say, when the fool wises up the game ends there and then. (Se okwasia ani te a na agro agu).
THE WOUNDED AND BRUISED JOCKEY WHO STILL WANTS TO RIDE THE LAME HORSE
Those who are asking ex-president Mahama to throw in the gauntlet and run for the presidency in 2020 are his enemies and he must be smart enough to recognize that. And if he thinks Ghanaians have so soon forgotten the mess that he created as far as the management of the economy is concern, then he needs to rethink. Mr. Rawlings, the founder of the NDC served notice at Wa where he celebrated the 38th anniversary of the 1979 Revolution that the time has come for change of leadership in the NDC and everybody seems to agree with him. The truth is that if even Mr. Mahama and his wife, Lordina Mahama are allowed to join the 2020 campaign of the NDC, supporters of the party will be angrier. If the NDC wants to improve upon their performance as compared to what happened to them in 2016, they should not touch the two with even a long stick.
Mahama is a spent force and with people like Alhaji Dr. Bawumia still in the system, Mr. Mahama will be a pale shadow of himself come 2020. In 2020, he and his wife will not have the luxury of criss-crossing the country with helicopters with luxurious V8 vehicles following them on the roads. And I do not think businessmen will foolishly pump huge sums of money into his campaign war chest like they did the last time with the hope that if the NDC came to power, they could recoup what they spent. The man should better go to Dubai where he has his luxurious hotel and mansion and cool it off rather than daydreaming in Ghana.
A friend, who is a cigar connoisseur has asked me to start puffing cigar again so that he could make the best choice anytime he visits a shopping mall to buy one. I am on my way to Havana in Cuba and surely when I come back I will introduce him to one of the best cigars money can buy. It is called Arturo Fuente Opus X “A”. The cost of one stick is 79 US Dollars. (You say eh!. Do you think poor people smoke cigar? Ask ex-president Bill Clinton of the USA. It’s a man’s world you know!!)
Eric Bawah