Not that it is exactly new to us. It didn’t start today. It won’t end tomorrow. It’s a spider’s web of helpless hopelessness we’ve been caught in. We can’t get used to it either.
Each time it hits, it’s so painful it feels almost brand new; unprecedented, apologies to Bawumeezey, the digital avatar. I’m speaking of that game, that their favourite game. The political “pilolo”.
Exactly five years ago today, I posted this thought somewhere on Daavi’s kitchen wall…
NPP: It is the inefficient inefficiency and clueless cluelessness of the NDC government that has plunged the nation into the darkness we’re experiencing now.
NDC: In all your eight years, you never added an iota of energy to the existing stock. As if that in itself was not bad enough, you took the President to the Supreme Court for 8 months when we should be focused and working to resolve the mess you guys have created.
NPP: Hoooo, liars. Create, loot and share people.Nayele uncles.
NDC: Hoooo, thieves. Amoateng brothers and sisters. Narcotic People’s Party.
Ghana: So what at all is the problem?
NPP: NDC is the problem.
NDC: NPP is the problem.
Ghana: So when will the power rationing come to an end?
NDC: We’re not promising but will surely end by close of 2015.
Me: I beg, when you’re done, just let me some power to preserve my food at least. I need earplugs.
Yes, this was half a decade ago. I needed an earplug then to escape the cacophonous senselessness of the day. But today, it looks like I may have to order an entire industrial sound-proofing system for my household. Why? The electoral campaign hasn’t really taken off oo, but Charley, the noise ‘taya’ me already.
They say some people have eaten money in the process of buying aeroplanes for state security. And they haven’t named names. They want all of us to go to legal coding college to decode GO1, Intermediary 5, Intermediary 7 among others.
Well, Yaw Buabeng Asamoah said he had been reading a few books on puzzles, including “My First Coup d’Etat” and he is swearing under the big iroko tree that he has already figured out the address of GO1. Abraham Amaleba says, hold my beer, you guys have never believed in decoding. When seats were reserved near The President for a fee at that event, you guys said the President wasn’t the President. You didn’t believe in the decoding doctrine then, so why now?
Do you think we have seen the end of this matter? You lie bad? Oh, in fact, we have seen the end of it. Nothing. Will come out of it. The two biggest political parties in this town will play chaskele with this until the next big scandal appears on the horizon and we’d start the blame-game afresh.
Yes, that is just what it is. It has been our lot for ages. We have been here many times over. Stubs of cocaine have brazenly walked out of CID custody in this town. Guinea fowls have gotten angry and flown all the way to our neighbour’s house in Burkina. All happened when we were wide awake oo.
We didn’t sleep. But till this night, nobody has found anybody who has the slightest idea whoever could’ve been responsible for these.
We’re masters of our own game, the political blame game. Away bus.
Efo Jehoshaphat
Hatorgodo.