The call by Ghana’s Trades Union Congress (TUC) on the Mahama-led transitional government of the so-called National Democratic Congress (NDC) to facilitate the creation of more jobs for able-bodied Ghanaian citizens is an epic waste of time and energy resources (See “Create More Jobs – TUC Tells Government” Daily Guide/Ghanaweb.com 8/19/12). And one really wonders where Mr. Kofi Asamoah, general-secretary of the TUC, has been during the past three-odd years that the now-President John Dramani Mahama, as vice-president and spearhead of the STX housing scandal, totally ignored Ghanaian entrepreneurs by shamelessly attempting to potentially create, perhaps, the most massive and lucrative job opportunities for South Korean construction companies at the expense of their local Ghanaian counterparts. Ghanaians would later learn to their utmost horror that it had cost the South Korean government and its beneficiaries the kick-back amount of a few laptop computers and other baubles worth under $3,000 (Three-Thousand Dollars) to each of the Ghanaian delegation members – or representatives of the Mills-Mahama government – to get the entire scam-artistry expeditiously ratified. Indeed, the Seoul government operatives must have been so delightedly flabbergasted by their Ghanaian counterparts’ apparent lack of common sense, foresight and patriotism that the Vice-President of the South-Asian country flew the red-eye to Accra to sumptuously celebrate this bilateral burlesque that was expected to cost the Ghanaian taxpayer some $ 10 billion in the long haul. That the STX’s “legitimate” heist fell through, appears to have been the result of a combination of prayers and good luck on the part of the aggrieved Ghanaian taxpayer, on the one hand, and the epic, albeit indisputably beneficent, entrepreneurial ineptitude on the part of the Mills-Mahama government of the National Democratic Congress, on the other. The unpardonable catch here, though, is that under the open-season and flagrantly unpatriotic economic rip-off policy of the National Democratic Congress, otherwise known as JUDGMENT DEBT, the Ghanaian taxpayer and the nation at large stand to lose a whopping $ 200 million for the all-too-savvy abrogation of the STX scam. What is curiously interesting here, though, is the characteristically brazen attempt by some key operatives of the ruling National Democratic Congress to blackmail their counterparts from the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) from making the STX scam-artistry a major plank of the NPP’s campaign platform for Election 2012. What chutzpah! And to think of the rather peevish fact that his much-vaunted youthful vigor had not lent the now-President John Dramani Mahama the requisite foresight, patriotism and creative and imaginative thinking capacity in forging a far more progressive, laudable and constructive deal for the country, makes matters all the more intriguing. In the latest of the NDC’s rather lame attempt at expedient blackmailing, the party’s notoriously loud-mouthed Member of Parliament for the Adentan Constituency of Central-Accra, Mr. Kojo Adu-Asare, threatens to expose other equally egregious policy blunders committed by the Kufuor-led New Patriotic Party government. All I can say to this empty threat by Mr. Adu-Asare is: “Come on, Soul Brother, bring it on!” Let us indulge in an epic contest of mutual self-exposure and see who emerges the irrecoverable loser before Ghanaian voters. You see, what makes the Mahama-fangled STX scam even more flagrant and egregious is the NDC’s infamous history of revolutionary self-righteousness culminating in the summary execution and persecution of the perceived opponents of the party’s key operatives and their supporters and underwriters. And for all that the people of Cape Coast and the rest of the country, at large, care to know, we may well wake up one of these days to learn to our utter shame and embarrassment that, indeed, the Mills-Mahama – and now the Mahama-Arthur – government sold us down the proverbial creek to the Chinese, in exchange for the promised Cape Coast Stadium on which President Mahama seems to have desperately hedged his Election 2012 fortunes. Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English, Journalism and Creative Writing at Nassau Community College of the State University of New York, Garden City. He is Director of The Sintim-Aboagye Center for Politics and Culture and author of “Nananom: Foremothers,” a volume of poetry. E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net.

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