NDC Or NPP? And So What? Culture Of Silence Creeping Back!! - KSM

KSM

Ghanaian ace comedian, founder and CEO of Sapphire Ghana Limited who is also the host of 'THE KSM SHOW' on Metro TV, Kwaku Sintim-Misa, known popularly as KSM has this deep but slightly comic message for all Ghanaians including the educated but yet intolerant civil society.
KSM wrote, "NDC OR NPP? AND SO WHAT? CULTURE OF SILENCE CREEPING BACK!!

Imagine you tune in to a radio show. The host says: "This morning, we are talking about diabetes: Speaking for the NDC is Dr. Kumi, and from the NPP we have Dr. Aboagye". That would be crazy folks!! LOL. I am sure you will be shocked. "What the hell does diabetes have to do with NPP/NDC?

As they say in our slang: "Like joke, like joke" that is what this country has turned into. Every single thing is politicized. What you say is not as important as the LABEL that people want to put on you. Whether it makes sense or not, is not as important as the PARTISAN LABEL they want to give you.
All I am asking today, is whether you carry the NDC label or NPP label AND SO WHAT?

I remember when the news broke that Kojo Oppong Nkrumah was going to run on the NPP ticket. The question was immediately raised: " Er, so all this time he was NPP?" I say AND SO WHAT? i find him to be an excellent broadcaster and communicator with very refreshing ideas. The bottom-line is that he did what he did with excellence and without partiality as a broadcaster. AND SO WHAT IF HE IS NPP?

That actor called Beautiful was one of the favorite actors loved by many Ghanaians until he came out as NDC. That should not have been a big deal but in Ghana, some people gathered and burned DVDs of his movies. He says he is NDC AND SO WHAT? Did that affect his acting skills?

Yuvonne Nelson chose to express her views on the Dumsor crises with a protest, all of a sudden, she is NPP. Even if she is NPP AND SO WHAT? Does she not have a right to express herself? John Dumelo said , "bear with the President on the dumsor crises he is working on it. All of a sudden he is NDC. Even if he is AND SO WHAT? Does he not have the right to express himself?

As for me the debate has been raging back and forth, I say here folks, that I don't care. Whether KSM is NPP or NDC, AND SO WHAT?

Let me say this for those who do not remember or where not even born. Some of us demonstrated against military dictatorships because WE HATED THE CULTURE OF SILENCE. I am sad to say, that I see the CULTURE OF SILENCE creeping back. Not from fear of any military dictator but this time from fear of AN INTOLERANT CIVIL SOCIETY.

INTELLIGENT PEOPLE, who have a lot to offer, decide to remain quite because they do not want to be subjected to a PARTISAN LABEL and insulted. Yes folks even under democracy, we have found a way to CREATE A NEW CULTURE OF SILENCE.

I appeal to every Ghanaian, especially those who afraid of being labelled. DO NOT ALLOW THE INTOLERANCE OF THE IGNORANT HOLD YOU BACK.

NDC OR NPP, AND SO WHAT?

‪#‎andsowhat‬?"