I put my bottom-dollar behind the creation of Oti Region By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. I was reticent about the creation of new regions in the country, but the regressive agitation by the Trokosi nationalist-sponsored Homeland Study Group (HSG) has convinced me that it is well-nigh time for the materially shortchanged Akan- and Guan-dominated … Read more
By: Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. When Dr. Stephen Opuni, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), had his assets frozen, recently, many were the voices that chalked the move to pure political partisanship. To such voices, it was only a matter of time before Dr. Opuni’s assets were de-frozen and … Read more
By: Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. The name Kumbungu, a township of some three communities in the Northern Region of Ghana, reminds me of the name of the legendary independent African Christian religious leader, Prophet Simon Kimbangu (1887-1951), who met with gross ill-treatment at the hands of the Belgian colonial authorities in present-day Democratic Republic … Read more
By: Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. In the wake of the upping of the number of his cabinet appointees and deputy appointees to 110, President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has come under widespread criticism, both from his usual political opponents and detractors, on the one hand, and ardent partisans and supporters and sympathizers alike. But what … Read more
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. It is quite obvious that had the leaders of the Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) not been as vigilant as they had been in the 2016 general election and allowed the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) to steal its way back into the Jubilee-Flagstaff House, it definitely would have … Read more
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. It ought to be crystal clear to each and every Ghanaian of age that the Deputy General-Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Koku Anyidoho, may very well be the master-brain behind the Anlo-Ewe terrorist organization calling itself the Homeland Study Group that has been promoting … Read more
By: Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. What does the Arab-looking Mr. Joseph Yammin, and his phenotypical mien is contextually significant to underscore here, mean by his rather outrageous claim that President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, during his 60th Independence Anniversary speech, attempted to destroy the legacy of President Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first postcolonial leader, in favor … Read more
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. The Otiko Djaba confirmation impasse strikingly demonstrates the acute desperation of the minority NDC members on the Parliamentary Appointments Committee (PAC). Needless to say, if anybody has an intimate knowledge of former President John Dramani Mahama, it is definitely not the charlatanic likes of Messrs. Rashid Pelpuo and Haruna … Read more
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. He did not actually lie, when the Lands and Natural Resources Minister-Designate publicly stated that Chairman Jerry John Rawlings had immensely contributed towards the widely alleged low voter turnout in the Volta Region during the 2016 general election (See “I Have Apologized to Rawlings for Lying Against Him – … Read more
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. English Department, SUNY-Nassau Garden City, New York E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net It is becoming increasingly evident that unless the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) replaces its Parliamentary Minority Leader and former Labor and Employment Minister, Mr. Haruna Iddrisu, the party is destined to remain in opposition for a long time … Read more
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. English Department, SUNY-Nassau Garden City, New York January 23, 2017 E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net The announcement that the Black Stars’ players have agreed with the Sports Minister-Designate, Mr. Isaac Asiamah, to slash their match-winning bonuses by 50-percent in their AFCON camp in Gabon, comes as one of wistful acceptance, if also … Read more
Long before the creation of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), the widely acclaimed and prematurely glorified founder of the NDC, a career coup-plotter, had created another political machine with his clansmen and other opportunistic non-Ewe associates called the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC), a veritable military junta intended to radically and decisively suppress … Read more
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. When the Deputy General-Secretary of the soon-to-be the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says that his party is going to hold the feet of the key operatives of the incoming ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to the fire, literally speaking, in order to ensure that the Akufo-Addo Administration … Read more
Ghana’s election fever is typical of that of any constitutional democracy. It is inflected with allegations and counter-allegations by the two major players involved, namely, the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP). Here in the United States, the two major players are the ruling Democratic Party (DP) and … Read more
The other day, one of those Kpegah Boys who have sworn to move Heaven and Hell to ensure that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo never got elected President of Ghana in their lifetime, wrote to enquire why The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori-Panyin, II, had yet to make news headlines in the form of the issuance of … Read more
I have already answered Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe’s at once morbidly passionate and scandalous appeal to Ghanaian voters not to vote for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, but instead vote to retain the man who “tolerantly” lobbied the Atuguba-presided Supreme Court panel that adjudicated the 2012 presidential-election petition launched by the now-President-Elect Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (See “Don’t … Read more
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. That was not the initial account offered by police officers involved in the investigation of the stabbing death of the New Patriotic Party’s Member of Parliament for Akyem-Abuakwa North to the Ghanaian public, at least as widely reported by the media. And so it is rather strange to hear … Read more
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. As had been expected all along, in the wake of the shock-and-awe victory of the Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP), the leaders of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), still reeling from the Galamsey Capital native’s Wednesday Massacre, resorted to the characteristic blame games of the hopelessly routed. They … Read more
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph. D. Those of us who have been on the frontlines of the protean political battles involving the Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) for at least the past eight years, are fully aware of the grim fact that too many things have been allowed to go wrong in the country for … Read more
In my most recent column last night, and one which hit the media websites and perhaps several newsstands, as well, this morning, I highlighted the need for one of our most respected and distinguished elderly statesmen and citizens to promptly and urgently speak to the need for the immediate abatement of rising tensions in the … Read more