Dear John Mahama,
I have taken notice with considerable regret and disappointment, comments you made on your official Facebook account accusing the people of the Eastern Region and in particular, Akyems, of Sakawa and Mafia. I didn’t want to believe you made that post deliberately. I thought it was a typographical error or better still, somebody had hacked into your Facebook account to perpetuate this evil. And so, I waited for more than 24 hours hoping that the matter would come to your attention for you to do the needful (i.e. to pull down that post and apologize to the people).
But, till now, you have failed to exercise any of these options; thus, suggesting to me that you really meant to insult the people. And indeed, to make matters worse, your supporters are busily defending the post. This is what has necessitated my decision to write this open letter to you. Respectfully, Mr. former President, having to stoop this low, you should not expect me to be very charitable to you, but, I would try to be nice as much as I can because my mum told me to respect elders and be nice to them. What I cannot do however is to choose words or constructs that do not aptly reflect what I sincerely believe and feel. I, therefore, hope you will forgive my diction.
First of all, it should dawn on you that what you did is clearly reckless and unpardonable. I am however willing to forgive you but on the condition that you accept this free education from me. It is pretty obvious that you do not understand the meaning of the words you used; to wit, Sakawa and Mafia. So, let me help you Mr. former President. Sakawa/Mafia is when you sponsored over 41 adverts against Free SHS and yet turn round to say your government brought Free SHS. Sakawa/Mafia is when you say you will cancel the Free SHS policy and now turn round to say Free SHS has come to stay.
Sakawa/Mafia is when your government passed a law to ban Okada and now turn round to say you will legalize the Okada business if you are voted for. Sakawa/Mafia is when you tell us that your party manifesto will be launched in August and yet, you still haven’t launched it even though the month of August has passed. Sakawa/Mafia is when your government implemented a policy that saw public sector workers who worked for over 3 years being paid for only 3 months. Sakawa/Mafia is when your government put a complete freeze on public sector recruitment leaving hundreds and thousands of the nation’s graduates in the quagmire of unemployment and hopelessness.
Sakawa/Mafia is when you gave over 70% of Ghana’s bauxite deposits to your junior brother, Ibrahim Mahama, without shame. Sakawa/Mafia is when as Government Official 1, you used your junior brother by name, Samuel Adam Mahama a.k.a “Intermediary 5” as a conduit for receiving bribe from Airbus in return for a juicy contract. Sakawa/Mafia is when your incompetence plunged this country into 4 years of dumsor leading to several lost of lives and livelihoods.
Sakawa/Mafia is when due to your incompetence, you handover the management of the Ghanaian economy to the IMF and other Bretton Wood institutions. Sakawa/Mafia is when you took bribe including a brand new Ford Expedition from a Burkinabe contractor in exchange for road contracts. Sakawa/Mafia is when you described Asantes as a bunch of ungrateful people and yet turn round to ask them to vote for you because you developed the Ashanti Region.
Sakawa/Mafia is when you denied teachers basic teaching materials such as chalk and when they complained, your government tells them they have been over-pampered. Sakawa/Mafia is when your government scraped teacher and nursing trainee allowance which had since independence, been the savior and a cushion to these trainees. Ultimately, Sakawa/Mafia is when whereas somebody is implementing 1-District-1-Factory, you were implementing 1-Slay Queen-1-House in your infamous “Papa no series”. Need I say more?
Having given you this Free Education on the actual meaning of Sakawa and Mafia, kindly tell us, between you [John Mahama] and the people of Eastern Region, who qualifies to be associated with Sakawa and Mafia in the scheme of things? You don’t have to answer that, because, as the lawyers say, res ipsa loquitur; to wit, the matter speaks for itself.
The alternative is indeed scary. Have a good day Mr. former President. The voice of a citizen NOT a spectator.
Assalamu alaik
Yours in Service of our Motherland
Alhaji Iddi Muhayu-Deen
#ForGodAndCountry
Source: Iddi Muhayu-Deen/[email protected]
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One of the ***barred word*** media stations in Ghana
Let me tell you something about this hypocritical letter we are tired of Npp and their name callings etc you have failed the people of Ghana instead of working towards that you are still blaming HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN MAHAMA You have lost my respect I will block your media handle When you were calling him names did he write you a letter? When you were supporting the intimadation of the ewes did He write a letter? Why do we call ourselves Christians but failed to do the right thing.For your selfish self you wrote this letter still mentioning JDM'S NAME WHAT HAS HE DONE TO YOU YES THEY ARE AKYEMS HOW MANY OF NPP EXECUTIVES APPOLOGISED FOR THIER ***barred word*** BEHAVIOR .....GOD WILL JUDGE YOU YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR GENERATION THINK!!!!!!
1d1f...... 1 slay quene 1 house 😂😂, that one weak me🤣🤣🤣🤣
The author is a disgrace to the title Alhaj he carries. He fails to see the gargantuan corruption, massive plain ***barred word***, ethnocentrism and nepotism going on in this government, but have eyes only for what Mahama tweets; such a dishonest, sycophantic ***barred word*** who has no love for self and country. Is he blind to the worst of intimidations and politically motivated violence going on? Was this clown blind to the discrimination and brutalities meted out to Voltarians and people of Northerners origin during the registration exercise? Surely this man must be one of the sellout northerners who have sacrificed their dignity and self respect for left over crumbs they receive from their masters. What a shame!!!
I am against insulting and strongly condem the labelling of a particular tribe or group with the choice of words by the former President. That said and done, the meaning you have adduced to Sakawa Mafia was the reason why we voted John Mahama out in 2016. But what is emerging now is that inspite of the issues you raised, John Mahama has evidence to show Ghanaians he used at least the greater chunk of the monies he borrowed for developmental projects. Can we say the same of the Akuffo Addo led administration who had borrowed 3 times what John Mahama borrowed? we are only seeing ghost projects all over the country. You see ,the difference between John Mahama and Akuffo Addo is that both admistrations had corruption tags against them but I am now tempted to go for John because if he Squandered, some will be left for development, but the same cannot be said of Akuffo Addo.
Sakawa/mafia is when giving Ghana's hooping sum of ($10m) ten million dollars to Mr Rowland Aganbila and Chris Brown in the name of building so called hope City of which you can't show it anywhere
I like the letter, sarcasm😂😂😂Ghana dey bee, 4 more for nana
This big Head might be sick or dead. You should be ashamed of yourself with the kind of hippocrisy you are putting out there. You and your "Mafia/sakawa" government should apologize to Ghanaians for the level of incompetence you've displayed for the past 3-4 years in government. You know of all these bribery and corruption cases involving the former president and his appointees and yet you fail to prosecute them? Incompetence paaaa nie? Ayoooo!! Time will tell.