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OKO-VANDERPUYIE
MUST GO: AND MAHAMA TOO.
Kofi Opare Hagan
June 08, 2014
I wonder how Mr. Vanderpuyie felt the morning after the floods.
In keeping very much with past tradition, he toured the flooded
areas. He made more promises than he did the last time he had
taken such a tour and gave more assurances of the Government’s
support for the victims.
But, didn't he feel terrible about how expensive his
incompetence is becoming to this dear nation of ours? Didn't he
feel prompted to write a resignation letter and give way to
someone better to handle the affairs of the AMA? Didn't he feel
embarrassed that with proper drains and more responsibility on
his part the floods could have been averted? Was he totally
insulated from appreciating the mess he had caused?
Didn't he feel, in cartoon language, like a jackass? If he
didn't feel any of this then he is not human, but certainly Mr.
Vanderpuyie is human. He reasons and has emotions. Yes, he
reasons and I know it. He reasoned not too long ago that if he
incited a group of tribal bigots well enough against the NPP;
then his party would win the Greater Accra Region. Was he not
the one who thought that no monument in Accra deserves a name
un-Ga?
He has emotions too, and I know it. I saw him cry his eyes out
when Atta Mills died. It was emotions, though, and not his sense
of reasoning, that led him during that time to abandon his work
and go around Accra naming everything he saw after the late
Mills and forcing tributes out of the poor people who otherwise
didn’t care a hoot whether the late President was in heaven or
hell, alive or dead.
So why has Mr. Vanderpuyie not resigned? Hasn't it occurred to
him that his continued stay in office is causing irreparable
damage to the people of Accra in particular and Ghanaians in
general?
The floods, as usual, were terrible. Hundreds of thousands of
Ghana Cedis worth of property were destroyed. But the most
expensive loss was the life of that middle aged woman that
perished. Yes, one woman died. One woman who wouldn't have died
had Mr. Vanderpuyie been responsible enough in his role as AMA
BOSS. And that is why Mr. Vanderpuyie must be held responsible
for that death.
Why shouldn't we blame him? After-all, Governments are formed to
solve problems and when problems persist so long after the
election of a Government, something is definitely wrong. In this
case, what is wrong is Mr. Vanderpuyie, he is simply
incompetent!
I am not saying he should be prosecuted for murder or
manslaughter, the incompetence of this administration when it
comes to prosecution is so well known that no one would risk
recommending they prosecute anyone except they want that person
to get away. What I am saying is that Oko Vanderpuyie must be
sacked. That stain of incompetence on the record of the AMA must
be cleaned.
But am not sure Mr. Vanderpuyie it would be the President
sacking Mr. Vanderpuyie. The apple doesn’t fall too far from the
tree they say. The President himself hasn’t cut a better image
of himself when it comes to competence. He has gotten away with
worse, and so has his over-glorified servants.
We must be the ones who get rid of Mr. Vanderpuyie. We must put
pressure on him to resign. By whatever means we must get him
sacked, and get Mahama too sacked, in 2016.
KOFI OPARE HAGAN
June 08, 2014
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