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Former President John Mahama

Politics when practised with
sincerity and with service to the people as the primary goal is a noble
occupation.

Unfortunately, insincere
politicians have jumped into the fray; their intention anything but the
aforementioned moral principles. Reducing politics to mere propaganda – the stock-in-trade
of the charlatans aforementioned – is what gives the occupation the unappealing
impression in the minds of discerning members of society.

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Former President John
Mahama and others like him fit the billing of bad politicians, their attributes
including the peddling of untruths.

He has chosen as a
subject, cocoa, the lifeline of our economy, for his dirty campaign tour of the
areas where the cash crop is produced in large measure yet ignored in his
so-called infrastructural agenda which never was. That was when he was at the
helm. Even when the man who is now President complained about the bad state of
the roads in the Western Region, the then President John Mahama told him that
at the time he was driving on the road network he might have fallen asleep and
could not have observed the absence of the potholes.

The former President
should stop lying and look at the statistics of a post-Mahama cocoa output:
these are verifiable facts devoid of the contagion of mendacity.

For a man who chose to fly
around the country when he was in power to avoid the bumpy cocoa roads he
refused to upgrade to spew such garbage in a useless bid to incite farmers of
the golden pod against a government which sincerely has them at heart is
evidence about how politics is being debased by persons of his ilk.

Politics like priesthood
is about championing the cause of the flock their welfare so sacrosanct that
they should never be toyed with NDC-grade propaganda.

Doing anything to champion
their parochial cause and thus giving politics a bad name is an attribute of
bad politicians. Not exposing such characters is not an acceptable option under
our circumstances.

But for the good
politicians still standing and serving God and country as their priestly
compatriots are doing politics would have been completely thrown to the dogs
with no trace of goodliness. Like politics, the priesthood is also suffering
from the infestation of crooks in the cassock.

The former President’s
weird manner of sulking is heart-wrenching. What he failed to do about cocoa
production and which others are doing must be prompting insomnia in him.

Politics is without doubt
about convincing people to join one’s cause but this should however be done with
objectivity and candour as the cornerstones.

If the former President
has no kind words for the feat recorded so far in cocoa production even with
the worrying effect of the swollen shoot infestation, let him shut up.

Embarrassments which come
with spewing untruths should not be the lot of a former President. When a
former President fails to live up to the billing of a statesman and is enmeshed
in the opposite of goodness, he prompts questions about how Ghanaians came to
be bestowed with such a person as President. He is even vying for another opportunity
to come and disserve; with such an appalling record?

The Akufo-Addo
administration, like all human institutions, cannot be perfect but can, of
course, flaunt its enviable achievements against the non-starter of the
previous order. No payments have been made to cocoa roads which were not
constructed. No bad and untested chemical inputs were imported into the country
which substantial amounts of monies were paid.

The Ivorians are not
magicians to produce so much cocoa. It is about commitment and good leadership
which we now have hence the appreciable rise in cocoa output in excess of what
former President’s recorded during his tenure.

Politicians are their own
enemies. The former President has fired too many shots at his foot since he
started his second term bid campaign. When the wounds become gangrene and very
soon, it would be too late to reverse the effects.

Propaganda has its wages. Goebbels under Hitler was a master of the ruse
game but when the game ended, his story was a miserable footnote in world
history.

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