Lucky Mensah’s New Song a Message?

Lucky Mensah is the only musician to have publicly supported the then candidate John Evans Atta-Mills in his presidential bid in the 2008 general elections by composing a campaign song for the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

True to Lucky Mensah’s luck John Atta-Mills won the elections by a slim margin and eventually became the President of this great Republic.

Two years gone and it seems the Lucky singer has lost hope in the man he helped win the 2008 elections.

His new album ‘Nkratuor’ has a song titled ‘Enkoyie’ which has gotten much airplay both on TV and the radio/fm stations. This song which is rather controversial has sparked public debate as to whether Lucky Mensah is having a change in mind on whether to continue composing songs for the NDC in future elections.

The song sung in Twi has lyrics with meaning in English as ‘Tawiah, take this letter to your brother Atta and tell him things are not going well’. Though it will be wrong for one to conclude he is referring to Atta our president, aspects of the song shows he may be referring to Uncle Atta (our president).

Scenes in the video of the song show a man been portrayed as a politician with pot-bellied stomach and a bodyguard. Things seem to be going well with the politician whereas the video also shows men laboring to make ends meet.

With a video and lyrics such as this and some public outcries ‘enko yie’ as used in the song, and a 95% confidence interval (as used in statistics), the song could be nothing else than a message to our President John Fiifi Evans Atta-Mills.

However, this musician Lucky Mensah has refuted allegations that the song is intended for President Mills when he was interviewed on the Delay show on TV Africa. He further said he could not have this motive since he was a helper to President Mills’ victory.

Well, it is left for you to come to a decision who the song is intended for.

An Advice to the NDC

Following the recent brouhaha in the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), I am forced as a patriotic citizen who does not want the current government to fail because if it does it means we have wasted another four years of our development process to give a little layman advice to the party’s members and well wishers.

I will begin first with the President. Mr. President John Evans Atta-Mills the leader of the party please as an acclaimed peaceful and honest man; do try your best by putting your feet on the ground to resolve this unwanted impasse. Call the former president J.J. Rawlings to a one-on-one meeting and try to explain to him why you cannot meet some of his demands and how you will soon meet those that you can accomplish.

To the former president who is the founder of the party I will say as a statesman and the grandfather of this party of yours have some level of tolerance for your own people. When they go wrong instead of going public to the whole world to voice your feelings, remember that whatever you say will be used to send the NDC back to opposition. Bear in mind also that no matter how uncomfortable you are now, it will not be different under another party. Even if it becomes different, it will rather become worse.

To the ministers of the various sectors please avoid passing or granting interviews to journalist on party issues. The best you can do for your party is to ceasefire for a while and never try to go by an eye for an eye.

To the member of parliaments, can you be a little bit loyal to your party and stop the unnecessary comments you pass about the governance style of the president who is the leader of your party. For the better of your party and the government why don’t you put together your so called ‘best option’ and present it privately to the government instead of going public to make yourself look like a reincarnated Nkrumah with all the best ideas.

To the foot soldiers can you be a little patient and patriotic and stop demanding heaven because you think you are in power. Politics cannot be jobs for you because the jobs politics offers are temporary. Instead go get something else to do. Join the National Youth Employment Program NYEP and leave the ‘big man’ to get his way into power.

To the well wishers, please pray hard because the country now seems to be focused for development and the president I think is trying hard to steer the economy of the country to achieve this. At least he always reiterates the fact that Ghanaians will judge him after his first term in office.

Lastly, to the serial callers take a holiday and cool your temper. You people seem to be adding more firewood to the fire that wants to be cooled off.

KOKU ANYIDOHO SHOULD BE ADVISED

Some people say his attitude is in resemblance to that of the former minister of information under the kuffuor administration Mr. Asamoah Boateng. Yes, to some extent because they are all in charge of disseminating information.Mr. Asabee's arrogance has placed him in the position he and his wife find themselves and I bet Koku Anyidoho does not want to go that lane.

President Atta-Mills as we are all aware of is a soft-spoken person and the people around him should reflect this character. As a Communications Director at the castle I expected Mr. Anyidoho to be very accommodating and tolerating when he comes out to talk on issues concerning the President and the country at large no matter how passionate he is about the topic of concern or irrespective of the provocation he gets from the main opposition party. These provocations are meant to trap certain people and I advice he should be smart to realise this.

I recently read on the blog of Ato Kwamena Dadzie a morning show host at Joy fm,that Mr. Anyidoho told him he had cobwebs in his head when he Ato spoke his mind about the information structures at the castle some months ago. Ato was concerned as to the need of a presidential spokesperson, a communications director and three ministers of information all performing very related roles.The response he got from Mr. Anyidoho was “When Ato Kwamena Dadzie decides to move the ignorance-filled discourse to absurd levels, it is only proper that I do my utmost best to clear some of the cobwebs in [his] head,”. I think this was a sad statement to be heard from someone close to a humble and calm President.

Not too long ago, Mr. Anyidoho was called to respond to the minority's call that the President was acting only when he was pressured to do so and even as a young person, I thought the reply Koku gave was not supposed to be a debunk statement. What he said was that Presidents now and forever will continue to take decisions and that the minority should come to terms with that.He even made reference to the decisions being taken in the UK concerning their just ended elections and I thought it was very unnecessary. Maybe he should have followed the philosophy of some people that all that is happening is a mere coincidence. That would have been better to understand.


Mr. Anyidoho is also captured to have said he disliked the former president J.A. Kuffuor on a foreign media with the reason that Mr. Kuffuor did very little for his people but rather made himself rich together with the people around him.


Again, if some of you can remember there was a time when Koku was supposed to appear
before the privileges committee of parliament for insulting members of parliament on the minority side. I listened to him on radio on that day on Citi Fm where he made that statement and the specific words he used were too harsh though I think the minority deserved every bit of those words. The issue was about Kwame Mpianim who vouged openly for the President that he was a President to be trusted with the
revenue from oil sales. Mr. Mpianim went on further to say he saw President Atta-Mills return some brown envelopes. So it became a big defense rod for the NPP who demanded the President reports the bribers to the police or else apologise to Ghanaians. This was completely "irresponsible" as said by Mr. Anyidoho on the part of minority NPP.

Till today Mr. Anyidoho has not appeared before any committee because some known people like Mr. Kwesi Pratt and other NDC sympathesizers solidarized with him and got pissed with the members of parliament for having too many privileges. These actions do not make people like me to like Mr. Anyidoho and even the President for choosing him. Some other people need these actions to get their political business going on. So Mr. Koku Anyidoho please be very careful about what you say especially on air or during interviews.