BE WARY OF THE MOSQUITO………….. the story of a certain Sir John

It appears Sir John’s intentions right from the start was to match Asiedu Nketia, Secretary of the NDC boot for boot. The NDC man is noted for his annoying and propagandist language and commentary especially against his opponents, the NPP. The obvious thing was most NPP supporters had had enough and so when Sir John came with the “I will match Asiedu Nketia boot for boot” message, people fell for it. What they failed to ask was, to what extent he was going to do that and at the expense of what? Because it looks to me it was in the extreme and it was the expense of concentrating on his actual job and wining power.

The NPP over the years has been seen as an elitist kind of party, calm, composed and diplomatic in terms of how their executive machinery operates. That is not to say the NDC is the opposite but at least from where the NDC came from, the ashes of  military revolution, bloody coup d’état etc, the aggression and radicalism in them is to be expected.

But it appears after Sir John’s victory he threw all these NPP accolades to the dogs and took after Asiedu Nketia like he promised. In the early stages it appears people enjoyed it. So it was not surprising that once, after Sir John adequately dealt with Asiedu Nketia on a Kumasi based radio station, this market woman from Asafo called and said; “Sir John de3 y3nyaa ne so du wc y3 kuo yi mu a nka yawie” to wit As for Sir John, if we had 10 of his kind in our party we wouldn’t have any problems.

Comments like this speared him on and his banter with the General mosquito became more interesting by the day. I remember in his early days he made comments like, he had come with Sasso mosquito spray and now Asiedu Nketia is on the run for his life, funny isn’t it? But was this how the NPP really wanted their Chief Executive Officer to go about things?

With time leaders in their party started voicing out their grievances. And so the ridiculous allegations against the NDC over their involvement in the accident of Dr Mahmud Bawumia, Running mate of the NPP, in the run up to the 2012 elections and the infamous contempt charge against him in the heat of the Election Petition and other very similar comments would call for his head. It is disputable; however, it looks pretty obvious that Sir John’s obsession with “dealing with” Asiedu Nketia, the general mosquito blinded his sense of duty and the general course of seeing the NPP win the 2012 elections. To some of us it became clear that the NPP had had it up to their neck and his mandate was not going to be extended.

The sad truth is that Sir John thought Asiedu Nketia was not worthy and was somebody he could just walk over and put a stop to. If the problem for Sir John with Asiedu Nketia was that he insulted and cast unnecessary insinuations, engaged in propaganda  at his opponents then I guess the best way was not to descend down there with him and do the same thing that he accused him of. The thing with such people is that, if you engage them, they will reduce you to their level and beat you with experience.

Just like the tiny insect mosquito after which the General secretary of the NDC Asiedu Nketia is named, it can be very annoying, the noise making in your ear and all, the flying pass your face and everything and more importantly it can kill or in this case send you to opposition so I say, when next Sir John or anybody is confronted with another mosquito of any kind, just be careful, because in your desperate attempt to clap the breath out of it, you might just end up hitting a blow on your own cheek.

One thing I know for a fact is, some of us even Asiedu Nketia will miss him.