Today, in the eye of many a Ghanaian, Lawrence Quayson is a
hero. For those who don’t know this gentleman, he is the cousin driver of
Victoria Hammah, the immediate former Deputy Minister of Information. He is
alleged to have SECRETLY recorded her and leaked the tape in which she is heard
denigrating a fellow Deputy Minister and saying she would not retire from
politics unless she’s made a million dollars.
He is said to have confessed that
he had been secretly recording the minister for close to three months. Talking
about secretly, it has just occurred
to me that even if he had openly
recorded her and then went behind her
back to reveal the tape, he would still have been no less a traitor. We are
talking about double treachery here.
You know… I try to get into the mind of Victoria Hammah and
find out why Lawrence Quayson was with her.
She may have thought that having someone she knows not from Adam, in a
car with her all the time wouldn't be very “comfortable” for her. She does not
know who this person will be telling if she happens to “let one go”. ” So why
not employ someone I know?” she may have asked herself. After all, it is said that if a vulture from
your own hometown devours your carcass, at least it spares some; for the sake
of dignity. Obviously, the elders need to revise this saying.
Then again, she may have thought that, “why not? My cousin
must also eat. "Why doesn't he come and work with me?” “There is one less
unemployed person in the family…AND the country”.
So if Mr. Quayson indeed did
record and leak the tape without considering these, then his action
becomes more and more confusing. There is
talk of a promise of $ 2000 and a US Visa from the one who contracted him. I do
not even want to think about that because even Judas’s treachery would be more
understandable. HE wasn't related to Jesus.
We know that he had been secretly recording his boss and cousin for close to, or for 90 days. 90 days my friends! For 5 days maybe we could excuse him and claim "the devil" entered him. You do not make a mistake for 90 day! These 90 days is proof of a deliberate and sinister agenda to bring down Victoria Hammah. And yet HE gets to play victim. HE is the hero. How unfortunate!
Why am I going on about this gentleman? I do not really care
about him. Each one chooses his own path and bears the consequences of that
choice thereof. I care more about this nation. I care about its moral fabric
and its collective thinking. I care about its soul. And I dare say that the
nation has NO SOUL if it holds up Lawrence Quayson as a hero.
Victoria Hammah is the lime juice that is poured in the pork
which brings out the worms. In the aftermath of this saga, I have seen a wormy
nature in the general Ghanaian attitude and that disturbs me. Where the
Ghanaian can just decide that right is wrong and wrong is right. No scruples.
No standards. Just going down with plain old hypocrisy.
Those who believe he
is a hero have argued that he exposed something in the interest of the nation
and on and on. Not true. Fact! He never revealed anything. Nothing criminal was
revealed at least. Victoria Hammah was NOT plotting any crime. He didn’t reveal
anything OF PUBLIC INTEREST. He did reveal something OF INTEREST TO THE PUBLIC. Yes. And that
revelation is treachery!
The public will be
interested in many things. In the size of your father’s manhood even. But be
not the one to go and give it away to them, because in the end, you face your
disgraced father at home alone.
You see friends, Lawrence Quayson had forgotten that anybody
would cringe at the sight of him if he is able to turn on his own cousin; the
one from whose hands he ate. In front of him they may applaud him. But
let us see which of them would allow him to chauffeur him or give him even a
trotro to drive.
Victoria Hammah did no wrong. She just said the wrong stuff. If we are to be truthful,
Lawrence Quayson is the villain here.
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