Dear Kwabena Amikaketo,
Long time, no hear. Hope all is well in the land of Tuesday Borns, the only day God blessed twice, thus making it the most special day.
Kwabena, something is happening in this our Homeland Ghana, which if people will not talk, as for me, I will talk.
Kwabena, our head of all clans, President Nana Addo, has done a lot of developments in this country which need to be commended. Roads, flyovers, schools, hospitals, factories, advancement of food production and many more that I cannot count all, here.
But, with all these, he is being regarded as the worse leader this land has ever had, since independence, when we decided to manage and mismanage our own affairs.
I do not have anything really against him, but just these two issues.
When he visited Jerusalem prior to the 2016 General Elections, Nana Addo quietly told YHWH, the I AM, that if He agrees to make him president, he, Nana Addo, will build the Third Temple, in His honour, here in Ghana our Motherland. He won the elections and became president and took that decision to build that Temple of the Most High, which was christened, the National Cathedral.
A big plot was acquired and a committee of chief priests, Pharisees, Sadducees and scribes, were made to supervise the building of this Temple. It is almost the end of the term of his presidency, but yet, the structure has not gotten to floor level.
Kwabena, is it because Nana Addo made this pledge in the Jerusalem Temple, which took forty-six years to build that is why our Temple too, looks like it will take forty-six years to build? Now, as he is leaving in less ten months, he will leave behind a hole in the ground, large enough to be used as a lake for fish farming.
Or, Kwabena, is there something spiritual about the location? I hope you remember that many years ago, there was a deep hole in the ground some few meters from the Ridge Hospital, just behind the southern wall of the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat. This hole was filled to level, with hundreds of millions of metric tonnes of debris. Is it that now, in this day and age, the gods of that area have made man to create another hole, some 1.3 km away? Are the gods to blame?
Kwabena, you know how I am all for a national icon of Christ to be built or set up in Ghana, a country where 23.7 million of the population of 33.48 million, profess their faith as Christians. I believe that such a project should be left to the churches. Assuming that 20% or 4.7 million of Christians in Ghana are regularly worshippers, if each one is levied at least GH¢10.00 every month, there would have been a monthly funding of GH¢47 million for the project. And surely banks will pre-finance the construction of the cathedral.
Kwabena, I also do not accept the location. We have in within one kilometer radius, four national icons there: the State House, the International Conference Center, the Accra Sports Stadium and the Independence Arch and Square. Why put up another magnificent icon there? And by the way, one of those seasoned chief priests, in-charge of the construction of this Temple, proved to Ghanaians that anyone who is born-again has two dates of birth.
Kwabena, shall we tell the president, he did not try that well, or did not try at all, at all, with this National Cathedral project?
Kwabena, sadly included in the reasons I am writing you this letter, is a case that happened in far-away Ejisu on Thursday March 28, 2024. That day was set aside for the grand one-week celebration of the death of an illustrious son of Ejisu, Dr. John Kumah, who triples as the MP for the constituency and a deputy minister of Finance.
A one-week celebration of death is an event as solemn as the funeral proper and so, it is against tradition and culture for any joyous celebrations during that event. To show the seriousness of mourning the dead, if your next-door neighbour is bereaved, you don’t pound fufu.
Kwabena, our dear old, President Nana Addo was at the one-week celebration, of his trusted appointee. In the midst of wailing and weeping, the unpardonable happened.
The President delegated some sycophants, to make donations on his behalf. After that was done, the spokesperson announced to all and sundry, that the following day would be the president’s eightieth birthday and the unacceptable jubilation followed with singing of “Happy Birthday to You,” followed by a resounding “Hip, Hip, Hip, Hurray!”
It was shocking and very disgusting. I thought our dear old president would do the modest thing and order the sycophants to stop that nonsense. But shockingly, while all those sitting near him wore stern faces of disapproval, our president was seen laughing joyously, enjoying every moment of it. Now, some against people are saying that Asantes do not know culture.
Kwabena, shall we tell the president that as for this, he did not try at all? With speculations, surrendering the death of John Kumah, that despicable act could make people wrongly, point fingers at and blame the President of knowing something about John Kumah’s death.
Kwabena, we demand explanations. Thank you.
Yours truly.
Hon. Daniel Dugan
Editor’s note: Views expressed in this article do not represent that of The Chronicle
