{"id":436785,"date":"2011-06-06T13:09:33","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T13:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/06\/a-cry-of-%e2%80%9cthe-revolution%e2%80%9d-child\/"},"modified":"2011-06-06T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T13:09:33","slug":"a-cry-of-the-revolution-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/06\/a-cry-of-the-revolution-child\/","title":{"rendered":"A cry of \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d Child"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Entertainment of Monday, 6 June 2011<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong> Paa Willie<\/p>\n

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Jet fighters flying so low above the house, I ran like a traumatized war child escaping from a pursuing rebel fighter only to bump into the shut door of my front door. Oh heavens I\u2019m going to be killed today by these fighter jets. Someone save me please.<\/p>\n

My saviour came just on time to open the door from inside the house and it was Daada(mom) standing in shock of my panic state and wondering why on earth is Paa Willie still afraid of fighter jets? Daddy wasn\u2019t moved by all the drama I was causing but continued his painting of the exterior of house no. 13A. When will these fighter jets stop flying over our house I questioned internally? Daada replied, \u201cWhen \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d becomes entrenched the jets will stop flying over our house\u201d.<\/p>\n

After such a dramatic day, I overcame the fear of fighter jets and rather turned 360 degrees to eagerly await the noisy sound of approaching fighter jets and start screaming in adoration JJ Lawrings, JJ Lawrings\u2026 instead of JJ Rawlings. To us, the children in old housing estate, the sound of approaching fighter jets cause such an exciting frenzy in the estate that we deliriously look forward to next fighter jet to fly over. Not in the distant future, Daada(Mom) started taking my brother Alex and I for regular sleepovers at the Medium Mortar Regiment Barracks with a relative. It was such exciting trips for me always to the barracks for \u201cholidays\u201d because of the ride in the military pinzgauer. I just can\u2019t comprehend till today as to why I enjoyed the ride in the pinzgauer and if or whether my brother Alex did enjoy these trips likewise? However rewarding the experience was for me in particular, I realized my parents always had loud and sometimes violent outbursts after our return from the barracks. I always hear my dad saying \u201c I told you (my mom) never to take my children to the barracks\u201d. Daada\u2019s response will always be; I am protecting them and it\u2019s the best thing to do for them right now\u201d. Drama! Drama!! Drama!!! Fast forward couple of years later, same children (Alex & Moi) sent to Ghana Young Pioneers boot camp in the bush between the Housing LA Primary and Middle school and the Military barracks. All we learnt was \u2022 The objectives of Ghana\u2019s independence and its essence to our survival which serves as justification for \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d and its good for Ghana. \u2022 The philosophy behind \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d \u2022 Learn about the leader of \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d Chairman Rawlings. I was the youngest amongst the large group of boys and girls and always the most eloquent in English hence the constant attention on me. I represented the movement very well with numerous revolutionary poetry recitals and speeches . I was coached to recite with verve and audacity at parades and durbars. Our compensation package include Milk powder, \u201cgreen under\u201d white sneakers from Cuba which always arrive in LEFT LEFT or RIGH RIGHT.. you know what I mean?\u2026. These gifts were extraordinary incentives for every family to push their children in the estate to join Ghana Young Pioneers. Another fast forward, I joined the \u201cEDIKANFO YOUTH MOVEMENT OF GHANA\u201d same principles and lots of after school activities to keep my friends and I busy all year round. That was the life I knew growing up in \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d era. JJ Rawlings was; The saviour, JJ Rawlings was the Liberator, JJ Rawlings was the Freedom Fighter, JJ Rawlings was the People\u2019s man! Yes I said WAS. WAS because what I read and hear in the media about Rawlings today is not the Rawlings of \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d. Why? It is the preferred reverence and respect we accord the dead in our society that\u2019s why the LIVING LEGENDS are constantly disrespected and abused? We now call \u201cJUNIOR JESUS\u201d the TRAITOR and the DESTROYER because he refused to shut up against despondency, treachery, disloyalty, neglect, disrespect and stupidity. You don\u2019t disrespect the man who built a mud hut for you in the rainy season as visionless after you\u2019ve survived the rains and built yourself a brick house. Even though he doesn\u2019t live in your new brick house, his advice to you about building houses is still invaluable because he has the experience. Call it rants, booms, barks or whatever, JJ Rawlings is the man whose charisma and courage formed the PNDC & NDC which held Ghana our beloved country together for 19 years.(I stand to be corrected). Therefore, no individual or group has the moral right or courage to question JJ Rawlings. I, who was born into \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d is bleeding in my heart and crying aloud about the abuse and disrespect some \u201cMEMBERS\u201d of the NDC are meeting out on my dear JJ Rawlings. Now is the time to speak! I am a child of \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d . I am who JJ Rawlings fought for. I am the product of his Vision. I am the Sapling who must take the place of the chopped down plantain tree. Washing your own dirty clothes in public doesn\u2019t mean you are disgracing your family, but it could also mean your own house is not comfortable to sit your buttocks on a stool to wash those dirty linens. The step children cannot ignore the sacrifice their new step-father has to make to legitimize their stay in his house. Therefore, the step – children must learn to accept the step-father unconditionally or they will ruin their mother\u2019s new marriage. I am not one of those step – children, I am a child of \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d whose family broke up because of a mother\u2019s unflinching devotion and belief in \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d to the detriment of her own family. I am a child of \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d whose mother was still campaigning for NDC on her sick bed . I am a child of \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d who received then Candidate Mills to my mother\u2019s house after she passed. I am a child of \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d who JJ Rawlings & Nana Konadu welcomed to their office after the passing of my mother. I am a child of \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d whose mother was proudly buried in FULL NDC colours. I am a child of \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d who has not given up on the principles of JJ Rawlings. For it is the sacrifice of the lioness that makes her cubs become the head of the Pride. Have we soon forgotten the relentless campaign platforms, formal and informal JJ Rawlings mounted to speak to the conscience of Ghanaians in 2008? Have we soon forgotten our ORIGINAL First Lady Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings sitting and standing for hours as a party agent in 2008? We never stopped them from standing up for NDC in 2008 elections, why trying to stop the Rawlings\u2019 from expressing and exercising their free political rights in 2011-2012?<\/p>\n

\u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d that made us who we are today is not and was never a revolution that excluded or denied people from being part of the freedom struggle thus an abomination for those who are trying hard to quench the bush fire with a cup of water in the NDC.<\/p>\n

The cry of \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d child cannot even stop the bush fire but can remind the detractors of the traditions and principles that made NDC an all-inclusive family from the NORTH, EAST, WEST & SOUTH of Ghana. I conclude by saying; the disrespect against the LION KING gives room for the ugly hyena to encroach on the territory of the lion. By the wise words of the late Ola Rotimi, \u201cwhen Elephants are being slaughtered by the thousands, the death of a house rat is not noticed\u201d. Maybe the dry cry of \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d child will mean nothing to some but a lot to one person and that will be enough to stop the wailing and mourning in my heart.<\/p>\n

Can someone tell me who to support? Maybe I\u2019m in a state of utter confusion. Regardless of my trauma in supporting my party, I believe the NDC is a more potent and reasonable party to belong to than the alternatives. To you our dearly departed mother, the only bond we had was through the traditions of \u201cTHE REVOLUTION\u201d now I speak for you from the land of the unknown, your sacrifice and toil cannot be in vain. We shall be united as a party and a family regardless of our differences and victory shall be ours. From the sad heart of a lonely \u201cREVOLUTION\u201d child,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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