Kokonte Boys Storm London
Posted: Daily Guide |Tuesday, 22 March 2011
By Charles Takyi-Boadu
DAILY GUIDE has picked up information that a couple of the young appointees in the Mills administration who were recently captured eating bowls of Kokonte, including National Youth Organizer of the NDC Ludwig Hlodze, Deputy Tourism Minister James Agyenim-Boateng, are travelling sometime this week to London to whip up support for the beleaguered NDC leader.
DAILY GUIDE sources said the young lads, as well as newly-appointed Sports Minister Kofi Humado, will use the trip to watch the historic Ghana-England football match at the weekend.
The rest include Presidential Aides Nii Lantey Vanderpuye and Stanislav Dogbe and Propaganda Secretary of the NDC, Richard Quashigah.
Their mission, according to our source, is cut out and simple: ‘to mop up support’ for President John Evans Atta Mills in his second term bid which promises to be a bare-knuckle fight between the Castle and Ridge.
This trip comes on the heels of a recent one to the Eastern region by the young appointees, where they devoured bowls of palatable kokonte.
It is not clear who is funding these ministers and party officials to embark on this trip to meet already disgruntled members, some of whom are said to be planning a protest against the visit.
They are scheduled to meet with members of the party in the UK and Ireland. A memo informing and updating the UK members of the visit has been dispatched to London.
A member of one of the branches in UK told DAILY GUIDE, "Our party is dying. For me, I have nothing to lose. I am very angry with the government so I will verbally attack them."
Even before the government officials set foot on English land, information coming in indicates that an active and long-standing member, Jamal Abdul Rahman, has resigned from the party.
The reasons he was said to have given for his resignation were that he had lost confidence in the government and the fact that the party’s founder, former President Jerry Rawlings was being treated as though he was an outsider.
In one of his most recent comments on the social networking site Facebook, NDC Youth activist Mohammed Abdulai Mubarak aka Ras Mubarak said he "will not support President Mills even if the party founder Jerry Rawlings steps out to campaign for him."
He added, “We cannot put up with four more years of paralysis. It would be worse than the seven years of painful drought in biblical times. They talk about Mills’s humility when he is not listening to his own party founder and they talk about admitting mistakes and yet no one is ever held accountable for those mistakes."
The Mills-Mahama government has gained notoriety for brazenly refusing to tell Ghanaians how government was spending money on party activity.
The most recent case of chicanery is the flying of NDC supporters, popularly referred to as foot-soldiers, to the World Cup tournament in South African where thousands of dollars were spent on them.
The government has failed to give a full disclosure of how much it spent on the exercise, despite calls to give a full account of the trip.