to clad in their party colours, paint their faces
close to that of mascots and defend anything
that represents their party. What about their
counterparts in the NDC? Chief Biney; I
sometimes wondered if he has a full time job at
all. Well up until his recent wedding to “an NPP
lady”, I was lost in what he truly does for a living
apart from commenting on every issue on radio.
I’m certain it’s the adrenalin rush effect is what
drives them to this extremely level of fanaticism.
We’re barely over with the 1st quarter of the
year and already political parties are trivializing
extremely politically sensitive issues. Our
National Security chief was hit with damning
leaked video, our previous government has
been implicated in a bribery scandal, current
government officials have also been implicated
in a misappropriation of public funds scandal yet
all these issues have been swept under the carpet
by both parties involved – it is business as usual.
But before sweeping it under the carpet, there
has been a wonderful performance on the sides
of both parties. Truly they’re well entertaining
their audience who seem unperturbed about the
quality of the performances – to them it’s all about
their favourite actors putting on a good show.
Yes, a good show. Has the National Security boss
resigned? Have those implicated in the bribery
scandal been charged? It was like it has always
been the state acting like they’re investigating
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the allegations. How many committees have
been set since the current government took
office? As many as uncountable as they’re
none has yielded any result in favour of the
voting populace. The Emily-Short Commission’s
report to government has been left to collect
dust on whatever shelve it has been shoved in.
T
his year one of the questions on the
many lips is “who will come out
with the nicest campaign song?”.
Our elections since the time of J.A
Kuffour have been characterized
by sensational songs by renowned music
artistes. The likes of Daddy Lumba and Lucky
Mensah have on separate occasions rendered
their voices and creativity to the course of
political parties. An act classified by many as
political party declaration. Many have had
downward spiral with their careers after
such acts. Nevertheless the voting populace
has tended to dance more to these tunes than
scrutinize policies and manifestos presented by
aspirants during this period. This practice has
been skillfully woven into our socio-political
fabric such that expectations for campaign
songs are rising every election year. Will
Sarkodie release a song addressing issues facing
Ghanaians under this administration like he
did during Mahama’s tenure? Is Shatta Wale
releasing a “Nana Paper” titled song? The voting