Fadi Samih Dabbousi took to Facebook, last week, to congratulate H.E. John Dramani Mahama for appointing a Korean-Ghanaian, Kojo Choi, as Ghana’s ambassador to South Korea.
Then he went on to tell his story. He claimed his father, a Lebanese, migrated to Ghana in 1949 and he was born here in Ghana. He added that his love for justice and mercy led him into the camp of the NPP, where he met his icon Nana Akufo-Addo.
He went on to say that he fought a battle for Nana Addo, which only a few would be brave enough to partake in. In the course of this, he was incarcerated twice, in 2013 and 2016. All these were under NDC rule with H.E. John Mahama as president.
When in 2017 the NPP formed government, with H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo as president, Fadi was delighted when he was told of his appointment as the Presidential Envoy to the Middle East on Investment. Nana Addo told him to come for his appointment letter in two weeks, which he did, only to be told that there were some challenges, so he should come back in another fortnight.
Again, two weeks later, he was with the president who lamented that some people were raising objection to his appointment because he was white and a Lebanese. He was again promised to come for another appointment in a fortnight. He said the ex-president told him that he had argued with those people and told them about his brutal campaign initiatives and the dangerous manoeuvres that he took upon himself to ensure victory for NPP.
There and then, he looked at the president in the face and said, he was not interested.
Fadi is trying to court sympathy from Ghanaians, by portraying President Akufo-Addo as an ungrateful gentleman who does not reward people for their services.
I am not here to defend Nana Addo, but rather to draw Ghanaians attention to how dangerous Fadican be.
From his own words, he said he undertook battles or operations that only a few people would dare attempt, too. Then Nana Addo described his modus operandi as brutal initiatives and dangerous manoeuvres.
What exactly did Fadi do? He promised to reveal them in a book and urge us to buy it and read the contents that would amaze Satan himself.
Whatever he did,could certainly be, harassing, torturing, injuring or maiming innocent full-blooded Ghanaians all in the name of politics. And is it not ironical that someone who said his pursuit of justice and mercy led him to the NPP, could be cruel and unjust to people who did not share his political ideologies?
He said he was kept in cells, twice, first in 2013 in a Ghana Immigration facility in Dzowulu and again in 2016, in the NIB headquarters in Ridge.
What was he arrested for? It will not be possible that the state security would arrest him if he were undertaking a peaceful law-abiding mission. This is so because, his operations were clearly described as brutal and dangerous. So, definitely something unlawful always took place when Fadi went on operations. That was why he was twice put in cells. This makes him a cruel criminal and a racist because Lebanese and Syrians are known to treat Ghanaians unfairly.
The Lebanese-Ghanaian, Harry Zakour, one day slapped a patron of his Bus Restaurant, a full-blooded Ghanaian, Kofi Owusu, who complained about government not managing the economy well. This happened in September 2014 and the NDC was in power, and Harry Zakour was vying for the Vice Chairman of the ruling NDC. Could he do this in Lebanon?
Talking about Bus Stop and Harry Zakour’s political connections, one can refer to what happened to another fast-food restaurant called Trafalgar. It was located on the eastofVicDoris pharmacy, near Bus Stop. This fast-food joint was selling more nutritious and delicious foods than Harry Zakour’s Bus Stop. It was in the PNDC era and all of a sudden, the AMA demanded Trafalgar to relocate. It had collected permit to site the restaurant at that place, but once it was noted that it was drawing customers from Bus Stop, government stepped in.
Trafalgar relocated to the Calvary Baptist Church area in Adabraka, but after a while this all fully Ghanaian-owned fast-food joint closed down. Trafalgar was supposed to be owned by an Asante or Akan and the business must be shut down, to favour a Lebanese.
What would have happened if Trafalgar were allowed to thrive? It could have been one of thetop fast-food restaurants in the country. But unfortunately, a Lebanese-owned business was preferred to a Ghanaian-owned one, here in Ghana.
To confirm that Lebanese in Ghana do not respect the rights of Ghanaians, one need to refer to 2017. It was in early March, and the crime scene was in Marwako Restaurant in Abelemkpe.
The Lebanese supervisor of the restaurant, Mr Jihad Chaabah, grabbed the head of a full-blooded Ghanaian female worker, Evelyn Boakye, and pushed it deep into hot pepper puree. After he was satisfied that the lady had chocked enough, he locked her up in a room, to prevent her accessing immediate medical care.
According to Evelyn, she did nothing wrong to provoke such an assault, but the question is even if she did anything wrong, was that the way to discipline her? Can such thing be done in Lebanon?
So, there is this Lebanese slapping a full-blooded Ghanaian for doing nothing wrong to him and there was this other Lebanese who used pepper puree as a make-up for a Ghanaian lady.
Then comes Fadi. Here we have a Lebanese who has openly confessed that he used brutal and dangerous means to attack people who were not in his political party. Unless, proven otherwise, I doubt whether Nana Addo would have encouraged such barbaric conducts during his campaign for the presidency, knowing well what would happen to him, if he was ever linked with these illegalities.
Fadi may be among Nana Addo’s inner circle during the campaign, and so with the strong conviction that the NPP was going to win the elections, Fadidecided to solely implement his own crude and cruel agenda. If what he did was sanctioned by the party, it would have lost lots of votes, if people found out.
Fadi should know that he was not the only one denied anything after Nana Addo won the 2016 election and formed government.
Some full-blooded dye-in-wool pro-Nana Addo people, were promised appointments but that failed to materialised. And there was this businessman friend of mine, who heavily financed the party prior to the 2016 General Elections.
He was not interested in any appointments, he just wanted contracts. Unfortunately, he was given a cold social-distance and completely shunned when Nana Addo became president. And the worse of all, his business which thrived during the NDC era, collapsed under the NPP regime. The last time I met him was in Cantonments where he requestedfor a lift from me to get to a place where he was going for a meeting. I gladly obliged.
So, if even full blooded-Ghanaians who helped the NPP to come into power get side-lined, then what is all the noise about a Lebanese who violated the rights of some Ghanaians, and is also left out.
Yes, for what Fadi Samih Dabbousi, with such arrogance and racial tendencies, did to Ghanaians, were things he will never dream of doing to fellow Lebanese in the streets of Beirut. From his own words he said he fought battles, brutal and dangerous, which not many Ghanaians would be brave enough to undertake. And these were acts which Satan himself would be surprised of and for that he got jailed, twice.
It is very obvious that he attacked NDC supporters, so the ruling party must take note. He made a sad mistake by exposing himself just to spite Nana Addo. He has just volunteered himself up for an invitation from the authority to answer for his past deeds and explain why disciplinary action should not be taken against him.
It looks like he intends to paint Nana Addo in dark disgusting colours so that he gets invited to join the ruling party, the NDC, and here I will sound a word of caution to the NDC and it is this, the enemy of your enemy should not necessarily be your friend. And a word of caution to all Ghanaians. Fadi wants to create confusion and division among us, so that he can implement a divide-and-rule strategy, where we will always remain divided, but always look up to him.So just as he told Nana Addo, “I Am Not Interested!”; I am also telling him that “GhanaiansAre Not Interested”in whateverbook he publishes.
Hon. Daniel Dugan
