When the Crocodile cries, the river must ask why”,
Former Ho MCE Divine Bosson has abandoned diplomatic language and reached for the verbal sledgehammer, aiming it squarely at former DACF Administrator Irene Naa Torshie Addo, whom he accuses of single-handedly dragging the New Patriotic Party into the 2024 electoral ditch.
Speaking to Adom News, Bosson described her leadership style as “autocratic, self-glorifying, and allergic to common sense consultation.”
According to him, her stewardship of the Common Fund was less public service and more private enterprise with national resources as raw materials.
Bosson painted a picture of an Administrator who treated the Fund like her inheritance from the gods, keeping huge sums in a reserve account “as if Ghana’s money had suddenly become her family pension.”
He claimed procurement under her watch was a one-woman drama series:
She selected the project, signed the cheque, awarded the contract, approved the contractor, and supplied the items, most of which he says were so inferior that even village carpenters and farmers would reject them.
“If your dual desks wobble like a drunkard and your cutlasses bend like plantain leaves, ask Irene Naa Torshie Addo’s DACF where they came from,” he jabbed.
Bosson did not spare the party either.
According to him, while the NPP grassroots were sweating under the sun and dust to build votes in difficult regions, senior party individuals were sleeping on the job “like watchmen who forgot they were hired to keep thieves out.”
“The 2024 defeat wasn’t mysterious,” he declared.
“When elders refuse to lead, even goats can scatter the village.”
He revealed that some assemblies received less than GHC 3 million in three whole years, while today assemblies are getting tens of millions per quarter.
“In our time, we were managing crumbs. Now they are sharing whole loaves,” he lamented.
Bosson even suggested that the pressure and dysfunction around the Irene Naa Torshie Addo’s DACF may have helped push former Local Government Minister Hon Dan Botwe out of office, a political earthquake he claims wasn’t accidental.
He added that many former MMDCEs supporting Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia are suddenly quiet, fearing that a future win might resurrect the same style of leadership they endured under Irene Naa Torshie Addo.
“When a snake bites you once in the bush, even an earthworm frightens you,” he quipped.
But Bosson reserved his strongest praise for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
According to him, blaming Bawumia for the 2024 defeat is like “blaming the driver for a puncture caused by the man who sold you fake tyres.”
He appealed to NPP executives from national to polling station levels to return to active duty:
“Dr. Bawumia is not the cause of our downfall, Naa Torshie is. And Bawumia remains the best man to lead the NPP into 2028.”
His closing proverb was as sharp as his critique:
“If the house collapses, it is not the wind, it is the rotten pillars inside.”
