It is said in politics; one does not have a permanent friend but permanent interest. For, people can use others to get what they want and then dump them.
Tho seat the top have lots of followers who will be willing to do anything for them, but when they drop down, that will be the end of loyalty.
H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo, always rewarded for loyalty and so, he got many people around him, who continuously sung his praises and were ready to do anything for him, even if it meant killing their love ones.
After January 7, 2025, when H.E. John Dramani Mahama became president, some of Nana Addo’s sycophants started saying foul things about him. And these are people who never rose to counter anything Nana Addo said or did, when he was in power. But now that he is out, they are educating the world about how Nana Addo was the wrong kind of president.
For example, Ernest Owusu Bempah, a political orphan, who was brought into the NPP by Nana Addo and awarded a top appointment in Ghana Gas, for eight years, could today come on air and tell Ghanaians that he had advised Nana Addo severally, to remove IGP Dr. Dampare from office, but all his pleas fell on deaf ears. If indeed he did, why did he not come public when Nana Addo was president? He went on to congratulate H.E. John Mahama for terminating the appointment of the police chief.
He has also been saying that picking Dr. Bawumia, Nana Addo’s choice, as flagbearer was very wrong. And no one heard him say so, when Nana Addo was president.
And then, there is this retired captain of the Ghana Armed Forces, who used to worship Nana Addo. This guy would attack anyone who held counter opinion to Nana Addo’s or spoke about wrong things he did.
On group platforms, he was all out, praising Nana Addo and condemning Alan without any provocation. Then he started attacking Nana Addo. Whatever went wrong?
Let me begin from what he posted when one Kofi Owusu Nkansa declared support for Fadi Dabbousi on his Facebook page.
This retired captain, in 649 words, went on about how in 2017, he was invited down from the US for a taskforce job at one of ministries. For six months in Ghana, nothing came for him until he was informed that Nana Addo had discontinued the taskforce.
He claimed he was promised a job in NPA and was assured he would start in a month. To satisfy US immigration requirements, he asked permission and flew back to the States for a week and came back home, awaiting the job. Unfortunately, after three more months, nothing came up. He claimed in 2018, Fadi accompanied him to the north on government assignment. But was it not this Fadi Dabbousi who said he cut ties with Nana Addo and government in 2017? Who is speaking the truth here?
The retired captain said he was given another offer where he was to work under a police inspector. But being a retired captain, he declined it, since he was going to work under someone lower in rank than him. He left back to the States after he was given GH¢5,000.00 which was $1,000.00 in 2018. He had to rush back in July 2020 when he was given another offer, which he claimed, turned out to be a fiasco.
Well, well, well, what he claimed turned out to be a fiasco was about a job appointment he had with the National Security. He brought this up on another platform and said he was posted to a galamsey site and was later withdrawn and dismissed. And so that ended his relationship with Nana Addo. Since then, he started condemning Nana Addo and his government, without provocation. What he hid from us was why he got sacked. Apparently, instead of stopping the illegal miners, he demanded bribe in gold to allow them have their way.
At least, he was offered a job and but was corrupt and got dismissed. So, why is he blaming Nana Addo?
This retired captain, has a way of lying so that he looks innocent and draw sympathy to himself. And so, I do not want to believe in his 649-word narration. I am sure that the people he mentioned would come out with different versions.
I feel sorry for Nana Addo. He has this strong dislike for people with diverse opinion to his and classifies them as disloyal, hence he will not work with them. This is rather unfortunate, because it is such people who love him most, and would always tell him the truth, no matter how bitter.
Most of his loyalists may only be pretending, seeking selfish interests, and are now abandoning ship, when the captain was gone. This is politics and here, Nana Addo was no exception. I know how he will be feeling now; very disappointed in some people he lifted up in life, but are now rejecting him. People who destroyed other people’s image to him for him to hate them, are now destroying his image. This is sad, very sad. This ingratitude is very bad.
I will continue praying for him. He will not get this opportunity again, but he can educate the young ones on life’s moral lessons.
Hon. Daniel Dugan
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