In these modern times one could be appalled that some people are still insanely superstitious and attribute any ill-luck or misfortune to the doing of witches; and Nana Agyekum, a rich cocoa farmer who lived many years ago at a village in the Brong Ahafo region was the veriest gullible of all such like-minded people.
VW Beetle car is one of the few vehicles with the engine at the rear. It happened one day that, Nana Agyekum after a very successful cocoa season bought a VW Beetle car. In those days very few people in the whole country were privileged to own cars, and so he decided to visit some friends in a neighbouring town to show off his newly acquired asset, but the car developed a fault halfway through the journey.
He quickly went in front of the car and opened the bonnet in an attempt to check the fault; unfortunately no engine was found. He thought that some witches have removed the engine in a blink of an eye! Sweat began to run in rivulets down the sides of his face; his jaw dropped involuntarily, and he spoke in brong: “Kai, nkrofuo no b3 tu engine no.”
Nana Agyekum waived furiously for the sporadic oncoming vehicles to stop, and because he was quite popular in the area, a couple of drivers with their passengers alighted from their vehicles and went to his aid; after narrating his story some enlightened ones among the people, with suppressed laughter tried to convince the oldman that engines of VW beetle cars are positioned at the rear, but he wouldn’t listen, so they took Nana to the back of the car and opened the engine compartment.
On seeing the engine, he exclaimed, “Aah, you see, I knew it! These people are wicked and fiendish, after removing the engine from the front see where they’ve brought it.”
Chai, me nam na mititi mititi, me nam na mititi mititi. Eiiiii, Nsem wo world. News dey oo, news dey paa. Have you heard about a trending tape regarding how some opposition elements contracted some women to go on a naked demonstration in Kumasi to scupper President Mahama’s Changing Lives tour in the Ashanti Region a few days ago?
I heard two women on tape alleging that an initial payment of GHC2,000 was given to each of a group of women to embark on this shameful and diabolical act, with the promise that more cash would be doled out to them if they execute the plan to perfection.
They were asked to drag their bottocks on the floor, roll on the ground and weep that there is suffering in Ghana. Oh, so those old women who went on a naked demonstration some months ago were also contracted! Shameful! What at all does the opposition in Ghana want? Must people in their insatiable quest for power go to that extent? What kind of frustration is that?
Is it also true that the opposition’s main reason for a new voters’ register is to brand Northerners and Voltarians living in the Ashanti Region as Burkinabes and Togolese respectively, and prevent them from registering to thwart the NDC’s Operation One Million Votes Agenda in the region in case the EC gives the nod for a new register? It could be recalled that there was violence and bloodbath in some parts of the Ashanti Region during the voters biometric registration exercise before the 2012 elections. If care is not taken a new registration exercise is going to be an all-die-be-die affair and plunge this peaceful nation of us into total chaos.
If indeed the allegation is not true why this obsession for a new register? If it is true that the voters’ register is bloated, can’t we find a more convenient way of cleaning it? Can’t the register be audited as it was done in Togo? If it is true that the above allegation is the reason why some people want a new voters’ register then Opanin Agyekum from the Brong Ahafo would have said: Kai, nkrofuo b3 pe se b3 tu Ghana.
