When The Incompetent Calls The Competent ‘Incompetent’

‘Competence’ isn’t necessarily a new word to us, is it? But you’ll agree with me that it has gained currency in our political landscape over the last couple of weeks. It started when Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, the vice presidential candidate of the NPP threw the first salvo after the 2016 budget presentation. And quite expectedly, the President responded when he addressed his teeming supporters at the Trade Fair Centre during the round-up of the NDC’s Greater Accra tour. A colleague claims he saw me smirk anytime the issue was being discussed on radio, and quite frankly, I was amused at the brouhaha. Depending on where your allegiance lies, it is a case of the proverbial pot calling the kettle black, hence the title of this piece. Who is the pot? Who is the kettle? You’ll soon find out as I share my musings in the next few paragraphs.

Venire…Videre…Vincere

ECG did its ‘thing’. The radio went off. Power was restored but not through the radio and no one seemed to realize. I feigned inattentiveness when a colleague asked me to put on the radio as the office was all quiet and uninteresting. I reluctantly stretched my hand to hit the switch button when he made the call again after about a minute later, and heard Dr Mensa Otabil at his usual best, teaching the Word of God. If I had heeded my colleague’s earlier call, I’m sure I would have caught the title of his teaching. Blame inertia.