It happened when my mother employed the services of these ‘by
day’ farm hands to help her plant maize on her farm. Here too, the amount of
money paid to these farm-hands is directly proportional to the area of land
planted.
Now, those of you who might not be conversant with how maize
is planted, here are some few tips; small holes are created with either cultlass,hoe
or a piece of wood into which a maximum of 5-seeds are put.Howvever,because the
wage paid to these labourers is directly proportional to both the quantity of
grain and land-area planted, some of these workers tend to dump handful of
grains into each hole so that they will be able to plant bags of grain within a
short period of time.
Having done this, they will then go ahead and scratch
portions of their so-called planted area in order to give the impression that these
are holes that have been covered after grains have been put into them.
And here, the labourers will consume their Fante delicacy of
‘ampesi’ with ‘kako spiced abom’ prepared for them by the farm owner. They will
then go home and rest and come to the farmer’s house in the evening to collect
their wages.
Now, after these labourers have collected their wages and
long gone, the field they planted will then begin to germinate. And it is at
this stage that the true handy-works of the wicked and lying labourers will
come to light when between 50 and 60,instead of a maximum of 5 seeds, will be
sprouting from a single hole!!!.And here too, the farmer will be left no other option
than to hire some people, at an extra cost, to replant the field.
So at the end of the day, the farmer ends up the worse off in
both land-clearing, preparation and planting periods while those wicked farm
labourers who perpetrated the wicked acts of naked fraud and deception on him
will be sitting somewhere and gleefully enjoying their loot with equally
deceptive and gluttonous collaborators.
Elaborate deception
The above elaborated scenario is exactly what Atta-Mills and
his group of pseudo social democratic gluttons visited on the good people of
this nation during the 2008 general elections, resulting in the citizenry
currently groping in the dark and hopelessly looking for solutions to our daily
problems.
In months preceding the 2008 elections, Atta-Mills and his NDC(farm
labourers) came to the people of Ghana(the farmer) with an elaborate plan as
how they would be able to turn a complete desert into a first-class food basket
and our ‘ailing ecomini’ into that of Africa’s Liechtenstein where there will
be no need to pay taxes.
They said our cities and towns were going to be transformed
into those of Switzerland in the area of environmental cleanliness within a
period of just hundred days. Fuel prices were going to be a million times
cheaper than what pertains in nations as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Every school
pupil was to enjoy a free ‘3-piece’ Versace-designed uniform that will make the
kids of Milan (world’s fashion capital) open their mouths in approbation. Our
security services were to be housed in Bajj-khalifa type of sky-scrapers that
will make the security services of Dubai go green with envy.
The above mentioned promises were just a tip of a huge juicy
iceberg of illusionist promises these absolutely incompetent and highly
fictitious cabal dangled around the nostrils of some faint-hearted people of
this nation in 2008, only to turn around today and hide their incompetence
behind a now too familiar mantra of meeting empty coffers, when these very same
liars left the nation with an infamous tag of HIPC after gang-raping our
nation’s economy for uninterrupted period of 2-decades!!!!
Clean environment promised Ghanaians in 2008 has now become
incubators of cholera and as we speak, nearly 70 precious lives have been lost
with over 6000 others being infected. This is a situation that deserves the
declaration of “red alert”.However,Atta-Mills is rather junketing across the
country in a bid to woo NDC delegates under the guise of cutting
swords,cutlasses,machetes,axes and so on for ghost-projects.
With the chaotic, incompetent, shambolic and visionless
manner our nation is currently being administered by the Mills-Mahama
administration, the noble thing for them to do in order to win a little sympathy
from Ghanaians is to publicly confess and apologize for their grand deception.
Failure to do this will continuously cement their nature as ‘enviable’ deceptionists
just as these village farm labourers.
Justice Abeeku Newton-Offei
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