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[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

The NDC officially takes over office from tonight, with an overwhelming parliamentary majority control. As at close of the day, the dollar to cedi rate was GHC 14.71, according to Google.

I'm pinning this post for reference later. I wish JM and the NDC well.

— Mo.

[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

I don't think there's any debate to be had on such a worrying development. Ultimately, it's our country's image that suffers, not NDC or NPP.

The powers that be should be up and doing, to nip the cocaine matter in the bud. Who wins whatever useless debate is immaterial.

— Mo.

[Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, Esq. MP. @etsedafeamekpor]

NPP CANNOT WIN THE COCAINE DEBATE IN GHANA
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1. On 3rd April 2017, a Ghanaian by name Suraka Suala Madugu was arrested at the KIA for swallowing heroin and arriving from Nairobi to Ghana.

2. ⁠Again in 2017, about 10.6kg of heroin was confiscated by Narccoc officials at the KIA after same was imported by a Kenyan into Ghana.

3. ⁠In January 2018, about 56kg of cocaine was seized at Ghana Post. 6 Ghanaians were involved.

4. On 3rd April 2019, Ghana again seized $1.44m and €255k belonging to a Lebanese national involved in narco-terrorism. A then DAG and a notable political figure cum lawyer settled the matter and released the money to the accused after initially being arraigned before court.

5. About 1.1ton of cocaine was seized in Belgium in December 2023 involving a Ghanaian alleged to be close to some then Govt officials.

6. Two private jets (Gulfstreams 3$4) allegedly delivered about 45 tonnes of cocaine to Ghana in December 2023. The jets are currently confiscated and are packed at the Airforce Base here in Accra.

7. In March 2024, Ghana arrested a South African and a Nigerian at the airport with about 13.76tons of heroin from Thailand.

8. About 166kg of cocaine was seized at the KIA in June 2024 involving 2 British nationals

9. About 76kg of cocaine was seized at DHL depot facility at the KIA in July 2024.

10. Prior to all the above, arguably the greatest drug bust happened sometime in 2008 when an incredible 399kg of cocaine was arrested in Nsawam. Only 2 drivers were arrested in that matter till date.

The US Dept of State as far back as January 2009, stated the ff in its Report:

“Ghana is a transshipment point for illegal drugs, particularly cocaine from South America, as well as heroin from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Although Europe is the main destination, drugs also transit to the United States through Accra’s Kotoka International Airport. Drug trafficking is fueling domestic drug consumption. Local use of cannabis, heroin, and cocaine remains a problem.”

So let’s stop the politics and support Govt efforts to fight the drug menace as a Nation. We were declared a drug trafficking hub under an Npp Govt in 2008.

[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

Beyong exposing the inefficiencies, or likely culpability, of some officers at our [air] ports, the arrests of carriers of hard drugs linked to our country leaves a worrying dent on Ghana's reputation.

It may seem nothing to you until you're treated and searched differently upon your arrival in some countries abroad. This is a really serious matter.

And authorities must treat it as one.

— Mo.

[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

One reality is that the police will always find a reason in law to justify an arbitrary arrest. They'd do anything to save the service's face in the face of an error.

— Mo.

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[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

If we agree that October 3 is a consequential decision, and I believe it is, then the next question is: what kind of person does this moment actually need?

I want to be precise about this, because I think the conversation in some quarters is being driven largely by the wrong criteria, with the greatest of respect.

Popularity is not the standard. Name recognition is not the standard. How long someone has been in the party is not the standard.

The standard is fit. Does this person have the specific qualities that this specific moment demands? And this moment demands something quite particular.

It demands someone whose personal character projects the values the party is trying to reclaim—calm, principled, above factional calculation, and truly committed to the party's interests over personal ambition.

Because a party trying to restore its brand cannot afford a chairman whose conduct contradicts the brand it is trying to restore.

It demands someone who understands organizational structure, not just party politics, but the nuts and bolts of how you rebuild an institution from the inside.

How you restore confidence in structures that have lost credibility.

How you re-engage a grassroots that feels taken for granted.

How you create the kind of internal discipline that makes a party's communications coherent rather than chaotic.

It demands someone who can work in partnership with the flagbearer, neither as a subordinate nor as a rival, but as the organizational backbone that gives the presidential candidate the strongest possible platform to campaign from.

And perhaps most importantly, it demands someone whose arrival in the position sends a signal, to the party faithful, to the wider public, and to the NPP's natural supporters who drifted away, that the party has understood what went wrong and is serious about correction.

That is a very specific set of requirements. And not everyone in this race meets them.

— Mo.

[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

The OSP offered some amount of oxygen to the asylum application of Ofori-Atta in the US. Now, the GPS is doing same for the alleged 'Ghana Jollof' woman.

— Mo.

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[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

In Ghanaian political culture, there is often a tendency to treat the party chairmanship as a ceremonial position—a reward for loyalty, a consolation prize for those who did not make it to the flagbearer race.

Or at best a management role for someone who can keep the party's internal factions from openly fighting each other.

That understanding fundamentally underestimates what a party chairman actually does, and what a good one can mean for a party's electoral fortunes.

The chairman 'guards' the party's organizational identity, sets the internal culture, and, inter alia, determines whether the grassroots feel respected or ignored.

He shapes whether the party's structures function as a genuine electoral machine or as a collection of competing personal interests clothed as party loyalty.

In the NPP's case right now, this matters seriously.

The party lost 2024 election with a damaged internal structure, a demoralized grassroots, and a communications culture that had drifted far from the discipline and coherence that once made it formidable.

None of those problems will be solved by the flagbearer alone.

The flagbearer's job is to win the argument with Ghanaians. The chairman's job is to build and maintain the machine that makes that argument possible.

A wrong chairman going into 2028 does not just create internal headaches. It actively undermines the flagbearer's campaign before it has even properly begun.

So when delegates go to the polls on October 3, they are not just choosing a party official.

They are making a decision that will either strengthen or weaken the party's hand in the most important election it will face in a generation. That is a decision that deserves to be made with clear eyes.

— Mo.

[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

Every serious political party has a brand.

Not in the superficial sense of logos and colours. But in the deeper sense of what people believe about it—what it stands for, who it speaks for, and what kind of future it is offering to the ordinary citizen.

For years, the NPP had a brand that was genuinely distinctive. People associated it with a certain kind of seriousness, a certain intellectual confidence.

A party where ideas mattered, where competence was valued, and where the grassroots felt that the people at the top knew and understood pretty much what was at stake for ordinary Ghanaians.

That brand no longer exist today.

And it did not collapse in one day. It eroded, overtime—slowly, quietly, decision by decision.

By December 2024, many of the party's own supporters were struggling to articulate what made the NPP different from its major opponent, the NDC.

When a brand erodes that completely, you don't fix it with a new slogan. You don't fix it with a relaunch campaign.

You fix it by going back to the foundation, understanding what the brand was built on, what caused it to drift, and what it will actually take to restore it.

That is the work that lies ahead for the NPP as it rebuilds for 2028. And it begins with one decision: who leads the party's internal reconstruction.

The chairmanship election on October 3 is not a routine internal exercise. It is, arguably, the most consequential decision the NPP will make between now and 2028.

Choose well, and the party enters the next general election with organizational strength, restored credibility, and a united front behind its flagbearer.

Choose poorly, and the structural problems that contributed to the unprecedented defeat in 2024 will simply continue under new management.

The question worth asking, before we ask who, is WHAT.

What does this moment actually require?

That is what I want to explore in a series of post over the days ahead leading to October 3.

— Mo.

[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

Happy birthday, Sheldon.

— Mo.

[Kwadwo Sheldon @kwadwosheldon]

They say today be my birthday.

[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

The election of a party's national chairman has far more significance to the general outlook of a political party than many people seem to imagine.

Politics thrives on perception. What a party thinks it is does not matter if the electorates think otherwise. In the end, the voter's decision at the polls is largely based on their thoughts and feelings about the party.

And for a party in NPP's current situation, the decision is even more significant as we rebuild for 2028.

In the coming days leading to October 3, I shall be discussing the issue on here, essentially why electing the right person is crucial for the NPP's 2028 bid.

— Mo.

[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

Just 30 seconds of unguarded remarks by Madam Kate Gyamfua, the current NPP WO, was all it took to destroy Hajia Safiya's campaign.

Already, Hawa Koomson appeared to be in the lead, and Kate may have propelled her further ahead to winning to be the next Women's Organizer.

— Mo.

[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

How did the shipment escape the 'eyes' of security authorities at the Airport here in Ghana. Those in charge should be briefing the country by now.

Our country can't and shouldn't be reputed internationally as an easy passage for drug lords.

It is not a good image.

— Mo.

[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

Seek help through patience and prayer.

[Mohammed Muntala @MoMuntala]

Adenta Kumi exemplifies the importance of "public figures" having managers to guide their public appearance, especially what they say to the media.

— Mo.