…WHO CONTROLS THE PUPPETEER?
WHO MANIPULATES THE PUPPETS OF OUR LIVES?
AND WHO REALLY IS IN CONTROL OF OUR PHYSICAL LIVES…?
RELATIONSHIP, of any kind, is the original networking application scripted by the Supreme
Creator of the entirety of LIFE itself from the beginning of time, even in the heavens, including
the celestial bodies.
Relationship is the fact or state of being related, connected by blood or marriage or code or on
the basis of need or philosophy or creed like politics or society or family or club or work or
school. It could also be emotional, especially sexual association between two or more people; or
a condition or character due to being related by membership of a society or club; and kinship.
These also constitute the basis for the evil intents of the human being, he or she, for the
manipulation or controlling of the other person in all these relationship setups, including
marriage or politics, knowing that the scenes and demands of marriage is more than in politics,
as both and in all relationships, there is the inclination of some element of manipulation –
management, handling, controlling, maneuvering, influencing, exploiting, directing, juggling,
rigging, doctoring or fiddling with an intent.
All these forms the basis for a ‘Puppet’ and a ‘Puppeteer’ relationship, where a PUPPET is
considered a hand-puppet, finger-puppet, glove puppet, doll, marionette or string puppet, figure-
head (simpa-panyin), cat’s paw, pawn, dupe, hireling, yes-man, sucker, stooge or front-man
because that is how mankind has molded life here on earth for ‘dog-eat-dog’ situations, as the
weak in character within the society always suffers.
The question I will pose for you is: Whose ‘PUPPET’ or ‘TILATI’ are you?
Who have you been manipulating as a ‘PUPPETEER’?
How come you can’t be discerning enough to read between the ‘LINES OF LIFE’, especially
where your Creator chose to empower you with a FREEWILL, total liberation, and yet you
would opt to place yourself under bondage of any type or sort?
It is important to appreciate that, a ‘puppet’ is an artificial figure representing a human being or
an animal, manipulated by the hand, rods, wires, etc., on a miniature stage; or a ‘puppet’ is a
person, group, or government, whose actions are prompted and controlled by another or others.
It was not for nothing that, we are all individually born with our own specific destinies, dreams,
aspirations, plans and futures, so why would we subject ourselves to diverse and numerous
manipulations by systems, individuals, governments or political party leaderships or occults,
sects or triads?
How can we fulfill our DESTINIES when we allow others to make ‘PUPPETS’ of our lives and
miss the whole essence of why we are here on this earth, especially where our CREATOR gave
to each one of us his or her own FREEWILL, only for us to allow ourselves to be subjugated by
another human for whatever reasons and benefits?
Why should we allow ourselves to be made willing PAWNS, STOOGES, MOPPETS,
FIGUREHEADS, VICTIMS or INSTRUMENTS or PLEASURES of another, or worse ‘SIMPA
PANYINS’ for all the gifts and talents our CREATOR endowed us, individually, with?
When we go to the polling stations every four (4) years to vote, we go through the processes by
ourselves without our ‘PUPPETEERS’, so at that point, why don't we allow our own consciences
to speak to us to take independent decisions as to who offers us the best future and not so much
as to party affiliation, particularly where when they come to power by our votes, they forget us
and rather they build walls around themselves to become incommunicado?
Do you know that those who we vote for, both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National
Democratic Congress (NDC) together could be equal to or less than the third group of those who
do not vote at all at each election in the 4 th Republic? This means that there is a possibility of a
true protest vote in Ghana, of those who want real change in our national body politick and
choose not to vote. This group obviously believe the smaller parties (who by themselves are seen
as appendages or puppets of the two main parties) are not-fit-for-purpose vehicles, individually
or collectively, to articulate the change we desire so they continue to play ‘puppets’ for the
benefit of the political class.
The irony of all these is that the real registered members of good standing (paid-up dues) of each
of the two main political parties are about five hundred thousand (500,000), thus the about six
million votes that they get at the polls to influence our destinies are all ‘sympathy votes’, whilst
about four million other Ghanaians registered also end up not voting at all during elections.
Let us therefore just pause for a moment and ask: ‘WHO REALLY IS IN CHARGE OF OUR
INDIVIDUAL OR COLLECTIVE LIVES as “PUPPETEERS OF LIFE’, playing ‘god’ over our
lives? Or we are actually in charge of our own destinies and lives?
Understand this that, when ESAU on his own volition gave up his INHERITANCE, FUTURE,
DESTINY or RIGHTS to his brother, JACOB over a bowl of pottage, it wasn't just for himself
alone but knowingly or unknowingly, he MORTGAGED THE DESTINIES, FUTURES AND
LIVES OF ALL HIS DESCENDANTS into perpetual servitude by just that one single act of
satisfying his hunger for a moment and not for a lifetime. Thus, if you accept money to
influence your conscience to vote for any presidential candidate, especially those who do not
fulfil their words to the electorate after saying ‘test or give me the chance or opportunity and see
the wonders I will execute for you’.
This, for me, is food for thought, for if we walk into servitude by ourselves, if we allow others
to become our ‘puppeteers’ as we turn ourselves into ‘PUPPETS OF LIFE’ without any
grounding or faith in any belief system of our own, then there is no REDEMPTION for us, now
or in future and including our descendants for the four years in power, while we will subject
ourselves to all manner of ‘mis-rules’ laced by personal aggrandizements of ‘their family and
friends’.
We ought to be mindful that if, knowingly or unknowingly, we mortgage our destinies, futures,
lives or rights as ‘citizens and not spectators’ to any political ideology, we will end up being
told that there are no opportunities in the public or civil service for us because there is no
vacancy and yet the next moment, they create positions in the same system for their children and
relatives. Something they could have done easily for you, if they considered you in the same
light.
No GHANAIAN by birth, conversion or adoption, mindful of his or her heritage, should
willfully, or even by any coercion, allow himself to be made into a ‘PUPPET’ for good reason,
otherwise why did we fight and sacrifice lives, shedding innocent blood for our Independence on
6 th March, 1957? Why the ‘KUMPREKO’ demonstrations and others with losses of lives? Why
allow our children to be shot at and die during elections time, whilst nothing is done about the
law being applied? Why vote for people who only fraternize when they want our vote, use the
same ‘trotro’ we use daily to secure our sympathies to vote for them and yet after annexing the
same power, build hedges around themselves for them not to now see the filths in our
neighborhoods or erratic power supply that we were warned not to label ‘DUMSOR’ because
they are not the same as previous government’s?
Imagine for a moment, the extent of the power we will wield as a people if we could change
governments after just a TERM IN OFFICE of four years, guarding the ballot boxes with our
dear lives and overseeing the ballot counting to reflect our real intents and not as manipulated,
how each government will catch a cold, even when we mistakenly sneeze? Definitely, the
emerging situation where these parties are now taking the two terms of office for granted should
be a thing of the past, much more anybody desiring to ‘break what eight’?
The supreme power of individuals into a collective to select alternates should never be lost on the
people when that is the basis of multi-party system – the right to choose whoever we desire as a
people and a nation and not one that turns us into ‘puppets’, even when they don’t honour their
words or promises made during campaigning; preaching one thing and to act differently for
personal, selfish interests.
So, I ask: WHOSE PUPPET (or ‘tilati’) ARE YOU?
There is a lot of dignity in refusing to be a puppet, not allowing oneself to be manipulated or
enslaved to dogmas than those rights and privileges, which are our due as enshrined in the Fourth
Republican Constitution and promulgated at the advent of this dispensation.
Better still, are you rather a ‘PUPPETEER’, a direct beneficiary of the kind of politics we now
practice?
WHO ARE YOU MANIPULATING, knowing that they are only going to tolerate you for a term
of the emancipation process, especially as what we are seeking for ourselves will ensure we do
not repeat the mistakes of the past and voting parties for two terms on a stretch, when in reality
they only deserved just ONE TERM OF OFFICE and nothing more.
Remember, the advent of the HUNG PARLIAMENT with its attendant emerging experiences
and lessons, requiring the need for the two dominant parties to begin to work together in the
supreme interest of the people and our nation, Ghana? Who tells you that the Creator of the
Universe does not sometimes interfere in the affairs of men, specifically when the people have
become so stubborn as if they have stuffed their ears with cotton wool not to hear the incessant
cries of the people for deliverance or fair treatment?
I know many, who in private discussions would admonish the political system at any point in
time but the next moment, you hear the same person on air defending the same system to the
high heavens, so permit me to ask: why are we so scared of telling truth to power or standing up
for the people; and why all this silence, whilst between ourselves we admit to each other how
things are very bad or worse than before?
This is a civic responsibility, let your vote count henceforth as CHANGE IS GONNA COME –
sooner than later, when no government is assured of a SECOND TERM, unless they seriously
work for it assiduously and without fail in all aspects of governance, particularly creating jobs
for our people and not for ‘family and friends’.
FINALLY, please permit me, with all due respect, to assure you that: there is NO DIGNITY in
playing ‘PUPPET’, definitely not for the sake of your children, your family, your friends and
your people (most importantly, for those in the neighborhoods), who look up to us as ‘ICONS
OF HOPE’; that is why we should begin to stand up for the rights of the masses as the parties,
themselves have continuously promised under their own manifestoes – nothing more, nothing
less.
Need I say more?
