In politics, relevance is of essence. It is a quality so important that politicians ignore it at their peril. It is for this reason that some dormant politicians after a long Rip Van Winkle slumber quickly want to make remarks just so their names would not be delisted.
While doing so, however, such attention-seeking politicians must be wary of making remarks which are not only silly but jejune. Unfortunately, a former Deputy Trade Minister and MP for a constituency in Northern Region fouled this rule. In his rush to launch a senseless attack on the President and be counted among the disciples of John Mahama and to be relevant in the disarrayed NDC, he left his thinking cap; his cognition failing him woefully.
It is better to shut up under such circumstances when they have nothing to latch on than spew nonsense and become an object of public ridicule. Murtala Mohammed who lost his seat in Parliament after putting up an expensive fight could have suffered a cognitive blow as a result and therefore unable to gather himself for a sensible discourse as in the case of the Komenda Sugar Factory.
His only reason for attacking the President was because the First Gentleman wants to see the Komenda Sugar Factory now a white elephant, working at full throttle.
Murtala Mohammed’s vitriolic is not only foolish it is imbecile because after all, the factory when it was commissioned amidst a heavy dose of propaganda went moribund soon after the event.
For Murtala to claim there is no point in the President scouting for a strategic investor to revive the dead factory is to suggest that it was operational since its commissioning but died upon the inception of the NPP administration; a verifiable nonsense.
Logic, as a science, is based on a set of good premises which lead to sound conclusions. In the case of Murtala’s remarks, they lack such sensible premises and their ending unsoundly and therefore imbecilely is unsurprising.
Such discourses are not about berating opponents but making sensible points. This is a gentleman who jumped at the throat of the Hon Haruna Iddrisu in a feat of rage a few years ago accusing the now Minority Leader of encroaching on his political turf.
If such a personality was the Deputy Trade Minister at the time of the so-called commissioning of the Komenda Sugar Factory, it is clear why our investment suffered such retardation. Yet he won’t shut up but continues to disturb our ears with such cacophonous gibberish balderdash about, what for him, is the uselessness about seeking investment to have the factory produce sugar.
If as he puts it: a GH¢24 million loan facility is cut and dry having already been approved by Parliament of which he was a part – how come the factory failed to be operational after its commissioning under the stewardship of the then President John Mahama?
It is unsurprising that this man failed to hold on to his seat in Parliament and is fast becoming irrelevant in politics except for such occasional bouts of nonsense.
Known for his mendacious remarks or put mildly, economy with the truth, this is a man who has lost credibility and would hardly win the hearts of the good people of Nanton as he did before let alone represent them in Parliament.
The people of Ghana deserve better and would rather the President makes good his promise to look for a strategic investor to breathe life into the moribund factory which for now cannot produce sugar because it is suffering the Mahama contagion.
Propaganda is an unenviable pastime and those who play it do not realize their nakedness even as they are busy throwing dust into the eyes of the gullible whose number is shrinking.
President Akufo-Addo inherited a non-working factory and so what recklessness of President Akufo Addo is Murtala talking about which is making it not work? If one tranche of the Indian Exim loan was used to put up the factory where are the rest of the tranches? EOCO must be excited about this inadvertent revelation from Murtala.