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What is happening to Agya Atta's wedding?
Obibinii Paa-Kwasi
February 11, 2010
Many are those who get happy whenever their beloved child is
about to get married. On the other hand others also get worried
just because they are about to lose their beloved to another
family. In totality one would say that the bells of any wedding
or marriage ceremony comes with lots of mixed feelings thus some
beautiful and others awful.
In fact such was the case when the Kufuor government decided to
give our lovely “Ghana-Telecom” daughter to the Queen’s
“Vodafone” son for a lovely marriage. While some of us were
absolutely enthused with the move; others were absolutely
furious and they were more than willing to “die” just in protest
of this marriage. Notable among the protestants was Agya-Atta;
now the father of the nation. This was someone who told
Ghanaians that we were capable of managing our own affairs [i.e.
Ghana-Telecom]. And many were those who started drumming and
dancing when Agya-Atta made that statement.
Therefore Agya-Atta and his NDC folks decided to
make it a campaign slogan to review the “Vodafone-deal” if they
were elected into office and this promise was written in their
manifesto. In fact some of them even went to the extent of
telling and making us to believe that their review was going to
bring a lot of good things to Ghanaians.
However, on assuming office the NDC government orchestrated a
political charade by putting in place a committee to investigate
the “Vodafone-deal”. Hence, this gave the NDC sympathizers the
opportunity to start disturbing our ears with their cacophony
that their government had fulfilled one of its greatest
promises. Indeed, some of us said that the “Vodafone review” was
just a merry-go-round.
Nevertheless, like children on a merry-go-round
the government was being motivated by its praise-singers on the
ground so they went on. The committee finished with their review
work and submitted their report [i.e NDC’s campaign propaganda
about Vodafone] to another committee which they preferred to
call a “Team” in order for them to re-engage with Vodafone. And
up till now absolutely nothing has come out of the whole
“Vodafone re-engagement” meaning the re-engagement is a never
ending story, I guess?
So my simple question is; what has Ghana got out of the NDC’s
re-engagement with Vodafone so far and what is Ghana going to
get at the end of their re-engagement? Hmmh, or it was just a
smart way of putting something gibberish on paper in their quest
to drink gallons of tea and pay to themselves fat allowances?
Anyway, I’m not surprised that they have started another
merry-go-round with the E.O. Group and the least said about that
the better for now.
Obibinii Paa-Kwasi
The Chalant “Atiglinyi”
Obibiniipaakwasi@gmail.com
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