\u201cMY BROTHERS AND SISTERS,\u201d as fresh as it is; as near as he is; as exigent as it is, too: Tell President Mills to sort it out with President Barack Obama before he comes back home to probably fire back \u2013 or else, it will be dead on arrival if he chooses the second option.<\/p>\n
He is dead seeking to play it safe: Sweeping it under the rug and hoping no one will notice his extreme silence in the U.S. He either fires back \u2013 or plays dumb!<\/p>\n
Maybe the tortoise can provide President Mills with some advice. He should better deal with Mr. Obama\u2019s directive here in the New York. Or he has some very heavy baggage to take with him to Ghana.<\/p>\n
The attention-grabbing President Mills has recently proven to his people \u2013through tough political gamesmanship \u2013 that he is truly \u201cin charge\u201d of Ghanaians affairs. In spite, of the extreme pressures from the opposition over his recent whereabouts, he bemoaned while taking a \u201crest\u201d in New York that he is still in the race \u2013 and coming out fiercely to confirm his Friday, December 2 meeting with the UN boss Ban Ki-Moon.<\/p>\n
He has even shown to his people that, with his political macho, he can fire even regardless on the planet he finds himself \u2013 branding himself as a very combative leader.<\/p>\n
What Mills has forgotten is that one cannot eat his cake and have it back: After the blistering attack against the \u201cWestern masters,\u201d he still \u201choliday,\u201d \u201crest,\u201d and seek medical treatment in the Western world \u2013 after bludgeoning your own medical system. Not to mention the recent doctors strike that took away precious lives.<\/p>\n
Common Prof, be real!<\/p>\n
When the British Prime Minister David Cameron made his case on the gay rights in Africa, the avuncular President, Atta Mills, braggadocios fired a salvo from Accra sending a strong signal that British can take away their pounds sterling: \u201cBritain cannot tell Ghana, a sovereign nation, what to do, adding that the country would not in any way legalize homosexuality. \u2026 UK can keep its aid if it would attach such conditionalities,\u201d shrugging off the bluff of PM Cameron.<\/p>\n
Political pundits, however, perceived his remarks as a rhetorical trick \u2013 which will eventually become his 2012 campaign pitch.<\/p>\n
Mills\u2019s fatwa \u2013 who venerate him \u2013 congratulated their chosen-god for a job well done; exhibiting an amazing political showmanship.<\/p>\n
Albeit, gay issue has become very crucial, yet the nation\u2019s leader is only treating it with a wishy-washy attitude and playing politics with it without a bill to parliament for a debate. As a renowned Law Professor, he has just being only rhetorical than getting the right thing done. He has made no intellectually definite position, propose a solution and act on this much-concerned issue \u2013 but canoodles the situation.<\/p>\n
Even more telling is that his anger even propelled him to a higher power to flex muscles and bashing the Western masters on the international scene, through Canada, declaring, \u201ca new kind of leadership is emerging in Africa and he would strive \u2026.\u201d He acted just like Kwame Nkrumah seeking Africa\u2019s liberation \u2013 indeed, defining himself as an ultimate African Union\u2019s leader in a secret war with the Westerners.<\/p>\n
But President Mills \u2013 who has demonstrated hysterical hatred against the Western invention \u2013 is tightlipped, playing dumb over President Obama\u2019s fresh announcement on rights for gays in relation to aid. It looks like he is leaving his people in the dark while living it up in the U.S.<\/p>\n
In a memorandum issued on Tuesday, December 06, President Obama made it cut and stone, directing U.S. agencies working abroad, including the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, to use foreign aid to assist gays and lesbians who are facing human rights violations.<\/p>\n
“The struggle to end discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons is a global challenge, and one that is central to the United States’ commitment to promoting human rights,” Obama said in a statement.<\/p>\n
According to White House, Tuesday’s announcement marked the first U.S. government strategy to combat human rights abuses against gays and lesbians abroad. President Obama has declared deadpanned that the United States will not kowtow when governments commit or allow abuses to the human rights of LGBT people.<\/p>\n
Is Ghana\u2019s President going to shake off the new blueprint from Washington: \u201cEnsure that U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the rights of LGBT people?<\/p>\n
This foreign aid helps the much-tanked economy. Records show that US is the biggest Ghana\u2019s foreign donor:<\/p>\n
Through US government\u2019s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), toward improving agricultural productivity and food security, in 2011 alone, Ghana has benefited from $547m. In July this year, U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) has given $600,000 to Ghana Airport Company Limited (GACL) to refurbish the passenger terminal at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).<\/p>\n
Ghanaians are obsessed with your long silence \u2013 do something before you fly back!<\/p>\n
The people voted for you partly after imitating the then promising candidate Barack Obama: \u201cCHANGE\u201d!<\/p>\n
Now, President Obama, as tough as he is, has gigantically walked his talk. President Mills, don\u2019t take the people for a ride \u2013 walk like a champion. Now, all eyes on you.<\/p>\n
The US fresh gay-aid threat, as reported, has even provoked a harsh and fetid response from your \u201cTeam B\u201d foulmouthed Deputy Information Minister Okudzeto Ablakwa: \u201cObama can go to hell!\u201d<\/p>\n
What Okudzeto refuses to admit is that the \u201chell\u201d is the present Ghana created by the Mills-Mahama government.<\/p>\n
You orated in Ghana; you orated in Canada. Now, Mr. President, you are in U.S., do it \u2013 and do it good!<\/p>\n
Now, he has pulled the plug while he ducks in the U.S. He may secretly run down home to react after a marathon meetings and coaching. And that is exactly what political experts think: President Atta Mills is playing it cool until he returns to Ghana \u2013 on a safer ground \u2013 and release his piece of mind \u2013 strongly!<\/p>\n
Communication Group
NPP \u2013 New York<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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