OPEN LETTER TO EDEM; NAMES HAVE REPUTATION

Written By: NASRULLAH IBN MUTAWAKIL 

FOSO COLLEGE OF EDUCATION 

@WEC SECTOR

0540317575

Dear Edem,

My choice of title, ‘’names have reputation’’ should echo a thousand words to you. You may have been thinking you have made a major headline; somewhat, you have done that in the minds of some very few persons who seek to tarnish the image of some previous executives of TTAG. However, your name does not sound to them like Gulliver because you are not the ‘’Man Mountain’’ so they would not consider themselves ‘’Lilliputians’’. Edem, should I come again? Hmmm!
When Nana Konado Agyeman Rawlings described Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo before his ascension to the highest seat of president as a true statesman, an elderly man called me one morning and, while advising me, said ‘’it was so wrong for the former first lady to have described Nana Addo as a great statesman when only few weeks before her declaration, BBC had described her husband as a true statesman in African.’’

Edem, I just spoke in cryptic codes and that of course will need a powerful hacker to decode it meanings. Edem you are wise, I will call you ‘’BRAINIAC’’ as if we were acting some kind of sci-fi movie. Just ponder on the few lines you have read and you will receive some anointing that is to say, I am no crusader returning from the middle ages.

When I first read your open letter, one question came to mind. Are you really a level 100 student? Then I continually praised the role of the current administration TTAG led by Dadzie Anthony for their big role in sensitizing you to the level you find yourself in, today.
When I was in level 100, I barely knew TTAG. It was not until I decided to run as secretary of my college that, I got to know TTAG. Then I got to hear about some obnoxious acts of certain people who once led the association. I am very sure you know more than I know about TTAG but you continually availed yourself for correction. Your humility is somewhat charming and you can win the heart of Margaret the women’s commissioner or Freeman Matilda Makafui the queen of the association but if you by pass, then I will let Isabella Ausei handle you. That lady can spew poetic rhythms that can diffuse even the bombs of Hiroshima.

Anyway, what intrigues most people, is the confidence you had in writing, typing and sending your letter to the editor for publication. You almost appeared to them like Michael Schofield of prison break. That dude did so much background checks to save his brother. In your case, you have been very discerning such that, you did not exclude anyone from the NEC. You rather included everyone especially when you said you had done a background check which revealed that, the former NEC of the association had received huge sums of money from student loan trust fund and still had no evidence of project in our colleges of education.

Edem, pause for a second. I am not witch hunting if my subsequent lines will appear so to you. All I want you to know is many people who spoke with me think you did not write the open letter you sent to the editor for publication. They believe that, ’’when you hear the howling of the hyenas and the next day, your goat is missing, you do not blame anyone’’. In your case, everyone knows the editor for the other journal is a former NEC member and if their perception is true, then the Ghanaian proverb simplifies everything in a line, ‘’the goat rubs it skin on the wall thinking it is making the wall dirty forgetting it is taking some scars in return’’.

The editor could simply have explained the reasons why you do not see projects in your college from TTAG dues considering the fact that, the editor had been  former SRC secretary, sector President and the immediate former national Administrator of the association.

That guy is very revered in the sight of some of us and he knew better. He should have told you that your SRC executives receive some monies called mechanisation meant to be used as project for TTAG in your college but some SRC executives do not use the monies for that. Considering the fact that, the editor  had been a former executive of your college, you could have made that back ground check from him to find out what their mechanisation was used for in your college but you did not.

Edem, your current sector president Selorm has done a lot for your sector. When TTAG weekly journal interviewed him, he told the public about the sensitization he and his executives have been doing. I cannot tell if he had been to your college already but one thing I know for sure is that, he is accessible to everyone and you could have reached him to make the background check on what his predecessors used the huge monies you allege they had claimed for. Your background checks sought to expose the ignorance of the association only when it could have sought knowledge of the association the more.

Anyway, truth be said, I would be lying if I said your suggestion makes no sense. A health fund would do. Wait a minute, did you also say your uncle made you see his payslip? Really when did he begin to do that? Ah well, family ties are strong may ALLAH make it stronger.

Interestingly, you compared TTAG to GNAT. Don’t make that mistake again. The leaders of the teacher unions you see have passed through TTAG before. They could have done that for the association but they didn’t only GOD knows their reasons. Instead, they choose to do it for an upgraded version of TTAG.

Edem, as I make my message short without digging further, I want to share a message with you. Dadzie and his executives are suffering. I joined them as they paid a courtesy call on some leaders, and truth be told, six of the national executives shared one single hotel room simply because they had no monies. The hotel was not up to standard too. For feeding, you could never imagine. These are your leaders who wish to do something great for the association. His leadership had already thought about setting up a health fund. He thought about that, the moment Agboni Nicholas showed a message of a former TTAG member who required some monies for treatment to the former leadership in 2018 at Berekum college of education during an emergency meeting.

Unfortunately, there have been no monies to run his administration yet his administration boast of some key defining moments which I believe you should have congratulated him for. I know you know what I am talking about however, those key defining moments will differ only by your definition of projects. Your open letter has made me understood what project is all about.

 I wish we all could advocate for our sister by asking all colleges to donate a certain amount to support our sister. I will pledge my support to get our sister back on track you should also do.

 But until that, the wee smokers have a saying, ‘’if the there is not there, you can’t force the there to be there.’’
 I wish you well and won’t be expecting your response until we meet again, case closed.