There are many Victoria Hammahs in Ghana politics!

Beautiful and well endowed Victoria Hammah - A classic example of an unqualified, over ambitious and unintelligent politician?

Crestfallen Victoria Hammah has become very popular in Ghana for wrong reasons. She was caught on tape making embarrassing comments concerning the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC)  in a serious gossip with another lady.

On the said tape, the former Deputy Minister of Communications was heard discussing issues ranging from political maneuverings, financial aspirations, intra-party lobbying, creation of ministerial portfolios purposely to create jobs for people etc.

What has become notoriously popular was her quest to make at least One Million Dollars ($1000,000) before she leaves politics.

“...I will not quit politics until I make one million dollars. If you have money then you can control people”, at least, a voice similar to her's appeared to be saying this.

Let's hear her speak on other issues concerning some of her colleagues in the following quotes:

"My appointment was solid way back. So, what does it tell you? That even in terms of influence, I've more influence than you Rachel. Even you who won your seat, they have crammed you, two, in the Gender Ministry. And you wont seek wisdom. The moment you lose your ministerial job, you lose your might and influence. Then you become unpopular in your constituency. When somebody contests against you, you see that your position is in trouble. Then you’ll be done, you are finished.

“The point is that a lot of us young people are ambitious and meanwhile they don’t read and they are not politically astute; before you fire any ammunition you must see whether your opponent has equal or more. You, you have no any pedigree; your father is a constituency chairman in NPP, then you want to fight a woman that her appointment elicited attacks from the Presby Church and all that yet the president went ahead to confirm her!

 “You must look at the motivation for your appointment first; She has the public anyway; Rachel appears to be Pentecostal but she is deadly, me I know her; she appears she is decent in public; that is the public perception about her but she has dated men in the party; I have not dated anybody in the party.

“Oye Lithur issued one statement which made you appear that you are unintelligent. I asked her, Rachel, you and Oye Lithur who do[es] the Ghanaian public believe is unintelligent? She said, her; I said yes [but] not just you, you, Sena and myself, the Ghanaian public believe that we are unintelligent; so you cannot fight your boss, she will use that intellectuality (intelligence) against you,” the female voice said.

 “I learnt even before the verdict (on election petition), Nana was with the justices and all that; you don’t know the role she has played even for us to win the court case, then you want to use your unintelligence to overthrow her.

"You want to fight Oye Lithur. Tony Lithur controls three Ministries. That Rachel is not wise…Tony Lithur has been the friend of the Rawlingses, been a friend to  the President  now and his wife. I learnt even before the verdict, Nana (Oye Lithur) was with the Justices and all that. You don’t know the role she has played for us to win the court case. Then, you want to use your lack of intelligence to push her out...?

"Tony Lithur and John Mahama; they've got an alliance. They are allies, you understand. They defend each other. Rachel, who do you have?"

Nana Oye Lithur - How powerful is she and her husband in the current administration?

Enough of her dialogue with that unknown receiver at the other end.

So do we honestly believe Victoria Hammah is just one of her kind in Ghana politics? 

How many politicians in Ghana can beat their chest and tell the whole populace that they entered politics genuinely to better the lot of Ghanaians?

How do we explain the fact that people enter politics with close to nothing but after just a single term as a minister or even a District Chief Executive (DCE), they amass countless properties and fortunes?

We talk about the fact that she was never qualified to be a minister. Is it the first time that we've seen an unqualified person becoming a minister?

In fact, Ghana's political landscape has witnessed countless occasions when square pegs were put in round holes from one administration to the other. The perception is that people in authority do so to reciprocate a certain gesture they got from a certain beautiful curvy lady who warmed their beds some time back or for the simple fact that somebody has stood beside them during thick or thin. Simply put, you only have to owe allegiance to a big man and you are assured of an enviable position in Ghanaian politics.

The phrase 'job for the boys and girls' have been with us for a long time and will never go away but will not be interesting to see an unqualified person at post, who, instead of grabbing properties, would learn quickly on the job and help improve the nation to prove doubters wrong?

In the case of Ghana, you give them political opportunity and they quickly devise a strategy to suck the nation dry to the detriment of ordinary Ghanaian.

It has become common to see students with avowed mission to enter politics as soon as they leave school. All because those who entered politics have shown that you can only become somebody through politics.

For those who have taken a hypocritical approach to this lady's issue, I want to remind them that she was not and will not be the only politician to gossip about a colleague politicians. In fact, there are elements who gossip about President John Mahama and there were other elements who also gossiped about President John Kufuor.

The sharp contrast between those hypocrites and Victoria Hammah is just that they are/were quite smart to observe people are/were watching or listening to them while Miss Hammah seemed to have been blinded by her stupid ambition of raking in $1000,000 from her short political career to the extent that she became unaware that people closer to her were plotting her downfall. 

The earlier intriguing manner at which her edited speech for an occasion was changed did not even serve a warning notice to her that people were watching her closely.

As for the series of bombshells she dropped about the current administration, it is up to His Excellency President John Mahama and his team to do their own damage control just like they've done to other mind boggling issues.

But wait oh; So I am a driver who drives a minister who is a relative. Sure, I might have gotten the job because she is my relative. She makes a lot of money from her position but she craves  to steal a lot of money that belongs to the nation.

 I know a lot of Ghanaians are suffering and if I allow this thief to stay on her job and carry her ambitions through, a lot of school children will be deprived of classrooms to study, there will be no good hospitals and people will die, moneys meant to build Information Communications Technology (ICT) facilities etc. would go into her pocket alone. 

So I decide to blow her cover; must I be arrested by the police when in fact, there are no laws in the country that speaks against my actions?