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| COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa |
For
both professional gossipers [journalists] and those who consume their gossips,
the past week has been overly packed with hot headline news. Talk of the
Western Togoland Separatists, the National Democratic Congress’ National
Chairman Ofosu Ampofo’s tango with the Police CID, Helena Huang gone missing,
the National Communications Authority’s ‘fight’ with both Radio Gold and Radio
XYZ and the headmaster of Salvation Army Basic School, in the Eastern Region,
allegedly murdered by six young men among others.
Personally,
I have had people sending me messages on WhatsApp or relaying such to me in person
to comment/write on one issue or the other. Just as I could settle on one of
the aforementioned news stories, a friend of mine on Monday, May 13th 2019 drew
my attention to something uttered by the Director-General of the Criminal
Investigations Department (CID).
COP
Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah on Saturday, May 11th, had told Atinka TV – on The Big Story – as monitored by starrfm.com.gh that, “I made that
comment because I wanted to give hope to the mothers but I have been
misconstrued. Maybe, people didn’t understand me. For timelines, I cannot say. I
just want to assure everyone that the search is still on. We are not sleeping
at all.”
Maame
Yaa Tiwaa was speaking in relation to her earlier announcement that the CID
together with the Bureau of National Investigations [BNI], after a thorough
search, knew the whereabouts of the Takoradi missing girls.
Our
elders say, we do not doubt claims by the woman who has ten children that she knows
every single thing that happens at night. So, for a whole CID boss to have come
out to claim she knew the dark world of the kidnappers and where they have kept
the missing girls, who were we to have doubted her? Nonetheless, it panned out
to be a mere joke of lies. We bashed Maame Yaa Tiwaa for such a shameful joke
and for making the CID a cheap bowl for the world’s spit.
Indeed,
our elders, again, say that a woman who bends over and exposes her buttocks to
other women in the market sells her husband's respect. Our CID boss has sold
the respect of her office so cheap by ‘bending’ unnecessarily to freely show
her ‘buttocks’.
At
this juncture, we only thought Maame Yaa Tiwaa
had learnt her lessons and would mind whatever she says thereafter. But hey, she
appears to have bought the right to Daddy Lumba’s song Yɛntie Obiara – as she continues with her cheap talk; goofing as
usual.
That,
you made that comment because you wanted to give hope to the mothers [or the
police as Graphic says]? Wow! Is COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa now a motivational
speaker? Interesting! As Bishop Daniel Obinim would say, “aboro so” to wit; it
is too much!
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| Credit: Tilapia, 3news |
It
greatly beats imagination that a whole Criminal Investigations Department of
our country is so much engrossed in incompetence. From my monitoring of
proceedings at the front of the CID, so far, if you [Maame Yaa Tiwaa] and your
officers are better off than the cadet corps in our various Senior High
Schools, it would be on the grounds that you have been taught how to fire AK47
and other guns.
Interestingly,
Maame Yaa Tiwaa is much more
determined to grab the seat of the Inspector General of Police [IGP] as David Asante Apeatu retires in three months.
“I
don’t see why anybody should say women are not ready for the IGP position.
Women could even do better than men. Leadership is all about how you manage the
people you work with. Your ability to manage your human resource is what makes
you a very good leader. The appointing authority will take so many things into
consideration. It’s not about your gender. I’m more than prepared to be Ghana’s
next IGP,” Maame Yaa Tiwaa told Atinka TV as captured by pulse.com.gh.
This
gets my heart beating as fast as though a boxer is trying his punches on my
chest.
Dear
Maame Yaa Tiwaa, would you – in anyway – blame anyone advocating for all and
sundry to totally condemn you like an outcast leper based on your recent track
record of goofing laurels? Perhaps, the families of the Takoradi missing girls
are not bellowing in anger as I expect, hence, your unending funfair of ugly
noises of ‘found’ and ‘hope.’
Literal
wizard, Chinua Achebe, in 1967 said, “Being a Nigerian is abysmally frustrating
and unbelievably exciting.” Indeed, such is the feeling of being a Ghanaian. While
we often get frustrated of happenings in the country, we take solace in Ghana
being ‘unbelievably exciting’, hearing comments by people we call leaders
including Maame Yaa Tiwaa.
Of
a truth, it is highly unfair these leaders of ours actively compete with
comedians like DKB, Foster Romanus and Clemento Suarez. I may have thought that
comedy had no place in the operations of the Criminal Investigations Department
but I may have been wrong. President Akufo Addo appointing Maame Yaa Tiwaa as the
IGP would be a coup d'état on the profession of the DKBs!
The
writer is a broadcast journalist with TV3/3FM. Views expressed here are solely
his and do not, in anyway, reflect the editorial policy of his organisation.
Twitter:
@aniwaba
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