[Opinion] I, Samuel Atta-Mensah, and others were victims of your political piracy – John Mahama!

In 2016, for writing a book that detailed your failures, corruption, thefts, and alleged murder of President Atta-Mills, and for calling on you to submit to an HIV test in public because there were rumours that you had contracted AIDS, you jailed me! You gave the orders for me to be picked up upon arrival from overseas while you travelled to the USA. The irony in this whole affair was that as I was being arrested at the airport, you were shamelessly touting Ghanaian press freedom and media independence under your presidency at a UN summit in New York! Yes, I authored that book, “59 years to nowhere and counting…the future is now”!

It was instrumental in knocking you out of Jubilee House forever! Even after jailing me, I authored the “RED BOOK” that debunked the lies in your GREEN BOOK, for which your BNI twerps chased me all over Accra until after the election results were announced. You made sleep in hotels, those that you’d never think I’d go to; those hotels that had different prices for beds with or without bugs! Wasn’t that abuse of press freedom? Yet what Samuel Atta-Mensah and I wrote or did were nowhere near your loud aggression against Press Freedom. Meanwhile, your partner in crime, Africa Watch Magazine, which you were alleged to have bought, released an edition that portrayed Nana Akufo-Addo as a dying person with failed kidneys, enlarged heart, prostate cancer and almost every terminal disease you can imagine. For that purpose, you allegedly plotted with Steve Malorey, the editor-in-chief of the toilet paper magazine, to obtain forged documents for this failed acidic propaganda.

That was the most criminal act of trying to create panic among the electorate five months to the 2016 elections. It was inhuman, utterly rubbish, vile, and just plain insidious. You laughed at the swirl of confusion, which cleared no sooner than your machinations had roused it. But with the tough skin that Nana Akudo-Addo had, he forged ahead unperturbed, undisturbed, and unmoved! Then I decided that enough was enough! I thought I’d make the call for your HIV test as many people wanted but were too afraid to voice it. So I did, and you showed that you had very light skin that could not stomach criticism! You remind me of that waiter who served a customer with bad food, and when the latter asked the former if they accepted criticism, he (the waiter) replied, “No, we accept cash only!” In like manner, you were allegedly stealing the nation and embezzling large amounts of money, but did not want to hear criticism. What a shameful and uninspiring politician you are!

I now know that Citi FM and Samuel Atta-Mensah can never be bought by you or the NDC. In fact, it is the fairness of giving all political parties a share of the airwaves that prompts Citi News to contain you and your pack of howlers!

Let me use this opportunity to render an unqualified apology to Omni Media of Citi FM and its sister networks for an article that I wrote last year that sought to suggest that the NDC had paid them to host the chairman of that party. Apparently, it is the fairness that Omni Media practices, which sometimes is misconstrued and misinterpreted. And to Samuel Atta-Mensah, I say, “sorry bro for the war of words between us. It was a nasty altercation. When elephants fight, it makes nonsense of sanity. I know that you are a man of dignity, honesty, and sterling reputation!” Then again, even if you do not come forth, I understand and forgive you. Anger has never helped people. After all, human as we are, we cannot be perfect! THE BATTLE IS STILL THE LORD’s!!!

Source: Fadi Dabbousi