Rawlings is Already in Somalia, stupid!

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

Half of the time, one cannot be certain whether Mr. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia knows or even understands exactly what he is talking about. In his latest rant, the General-Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is reported to be calling on Nana Akufo-Addo, the 2012 Presidential Candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to relocate to “Somalia, Iraq or possibly Afghanistan,” for forthrightly advocating commensurate self-defense on the part of members, supporters and sympathizers of the NPP against perennial NDC assault and intimidation, particularly during electoral seasons (See “NDC: Nana Addo Should Relocate to Somalia or Iraq[,] Since He Believes in Suicide Missions” (Peacefmonline.com 2/10/11).
Maybe somebody ought to inform Mr. Asiedu-Nketia (a.k.a. General Mosquito), in case he missed the same, that recently when the African Union (AU) needed an envoy to represent the organization’s interests in war-torn and pirate-infested Somalia, it was on Mr. Jerry John Rawlings, founding-patriarch of the so-called National Democratic Congress that such choice fell, not the peace-loving, world-renowned champion of human and civil rights, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
Needless to say, in Rawlings, the key operatives of the African Union found a violence-prone Ghanaian and former strongman who spoke the terror-charged language of the Somali warlords. Maybe what Mr. Asiedu-Nketia actually implied was the imperative need for the executive members of the NDC to fervidly prepare to join their patriarch in Mogadishu.
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