WHAT THE GHANAIAN POLITICIAN MEANS WHEN HE SAYS OR DOES… You guys agree that generally politicians are not very truthful, right? Well after listening to them, watching them, interviewing them as a journalist and spending some time in their company, this is what I, Kwame Gyan of Nsawkaw in the Tain District, think our politicians mean when they say or do certain things. Enjoy and feel free to add on the Facebook thread or here; 1. I care for you Yeah right. I care for me that’s why I need you to give me the mandate so I care for me some more and when I have had enough I give you the crumbs. 2. Plans are far advanced…. Yes, plans are as advanced as reading them out of this script. We don’t intend to do this anytime soon so please don’t expect it anytime soon. 3. My name is Honourable…. I am as dishonourable as you can get but woe betide you if you do not call me Honourable. It is part of my name just in case you didn’t know . 4. We shall build a railway line from Accra straight to Paga and then continue with it to London Yes we know your ears sweeten you always so we say what you like to hear. How can we build railway lines that long! Are we the Chinese? Use the bloody pothole roads like that. Abadze nye railway line. 5. Government is committed to…. We ain’t committed to sh!t. Our commitment are to ourselves, our families, our friends and if any commitment is left we share among the rest of you. 6. Vote us into power for this government is the most corrupt in our history We are just the lesser evil. After all corruption is a part of human existence 7. When they give you kuraba, chale wote, bentoa, 5 cedis and lantern with a few days to elections You are so stupid we can buy your vote with these cheap things so we get the license to spend your money on the finer things of life. Vacations to Dubai and Europe, the latest models of vehicles, mansions (notice the ‘s’ attached to mansion) 8. We declare zero tolerance on corruption; if you have any evidence of corruption present it to me You people are asking us to plant rice in the desert eh? Dream on. 9. When they defend the obviously vile comments of their comrades. You are too dumb to understand what he said and meant so let me explain…. 10. When public outcry is loudest against an appointee You let us take your post away for now. You will still keep your salary and live in the bungalow and drive your official car. After a while we will officially reappointed you. Ghanaians talk too much. 11. Work has started on the Kokompe-Fawonkwasiasemspho road and will be completed soon The contractor has poured two truck loads of sand there so you can think work has started. We don’t have money for that road. Money has been diverted to other important sectors of the economy like my children’s fees in London and New York and Toronto. 12. The President has the right to appoint whoever he wants and deems fight Of course. Otherwise how will I have gotten a job. The boys and girls also need jobs. Yes some of us may never get jobs if qualification and competence were key yardsticks. Take a peek into NADMO and the old GYEEDA/NYEP. 13. The opposition candidate is a drug addict and an old man. What else did you want us to say? Speak about his credentials and competence where we don’t have enough points to make him look bad? You paaa….. 14. The President is corrupt and visionless. See how hard things are in the country. See his appointees. See how he is travelling everyday. See his hair cut. See how he has starched his shirt. Ah you paaa. He is the President. We want out party to be in government so we will say all the things that will make the voters not like him. Some will be true. Some will be force. Some too will be some way bi. 15. We will reduce the price of petrol and other petroleum products when we come to power We most likely will maintain it or even may be increase it a bit. For now though, we know you think is high so we will support your shouts for a reduction. When we come to power we will tell you the truth…”the previous government did a lot of damage to the economy so we will need to increase the prices to……” 16. Under this government we can now boast of state of the art medical facility comparable to any in the Western World If the facilities were that good why are they on the first plane to South Africa, Britain or the US for mere medical check ups? Why do ministers of state and mere appointees pushing papers in offices fly their wives out to give birth abroad? No please it is not about having the American or British passport. But even if it were…. 17. Ghanaians have never been prouder to be called Ghanaians. Really, so why do your kids hold foreign passports and your wives are flown abroad to birth? 18. Ghana’s educational system from the primary to the tertiary level is one of the best in the world. Yea right. It is so good you have to steal our small coins to put your wards abroad. It is so good some of the pupils sit on cement blocks. It is so good schools under trees still exist in 2014. It is so good Legon lecturers still have classes of 500+ students. It is so good a pass mark of 21% is celebrated with glasses of champagne. Oh it is very good paaaa. 19. The loan of $1000 million (yes, thousand million dollars) will be used to expand the ABCD to VXYZ road and to complete the 123 to 789 roads That is after a number of ministers and functionaries have finished building their fuel stations and mansions and then we see about the projects. 20. We will not allow any Bretton Woods institutions nor any country to dictate to us. We are a sovereign nation and can rule ourselves Behind closed doors the conversation is different. “Please we need that bailout like yesterday otherwise this nation will collapse. You just set whatever conditions we will follow”. …..to be continued…. ©KwameGyan
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 07:53:08 +0000
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