By Adnan Adams,
Journalist
Lawyer Evans Amankwah, the heated-protostar that never got hydrogen infusion (for better understanding read below the how a star is formed), the ‘uncelebrated’ bedrock of NDC’s historic success in Adansi Asokwa constituency in the 2024 parliamentary and presidential elections.
Arguing on the adage that ‘Rome was not built in a day’; the contribution of the three term parliamentary candidate of Adansi Asokwa (2004,2012 and 2016), Lawyer Evans Amankwah, in the Constituency and the Ashanti Region as the head of the legal team can never be overemphasized.
As Africans, we are accustomed to saying ‘let celebrate (reward and appreciate) our hero’s before they die’.
Aftermath of 2024 elections; while almost all NDC top guns and grassroots were jubilating, dinning and wining from one victory party to the other, Lawyer Evans Amankwah was critically and busily burning midnight candles studying the electoral laws of Ghana to fight for the ‘stolen seats’ for NDC.
Been a three term parliamentary candidate to a bully-character like K. T. Hammond, who has always used thugs to intimidate citizens and state security to rig elections in his favor, Lawyer Evans Amankwah knows how it feels to be rigged off a verdict wrongfully, so his resolved to sacrifice his precious time, happiness and resources for the course of the party as NDC needed those seats for a convincing two-third majority in Parliament.
However, it seems the hero is being forgotten, while the victory cake is been eaten to the last bite.
As a journalist and a bona fide member of the NDC, I had a field encounter with Lawyer Evans Amankwah in the run up to the 2016 elections in a company of three other journalists left our homes in Accra to pursue a specialised campaign for selected constituencies in the Ashanti Region we had assessed that, with a little more efforts NDC could win those seats.
We spent five days in the twin constituencies of Adansi Asokwa and Fomena to emback on specialized door-to-door campaign in the heart of the Adansi Asokwa, the hometown of KT Hammond but on our fourth day, the unfortunate happened where we were nearly killed had it not been the bravery and timely intervention of Lawyer Evans Amankwah.
Even with NDC in control of political power and control of government, the police service in the Adansi municipality was compromised and puppetly-controlled by KT Hammond, who could command the the Police commander to do as he wishes and used the police against Lawyer Evans and the NDC during the elections.
Having been around Lawyer Amankwah for the days of our stay, we were amazed and appreciated the clandestine effort in mobilising and holding up the base of the party members in that hard rock NPP dominated areas.
Then we asked, Lawyer how are you able to finance all these activities and support for party members single-handedly? He looked at us and smiled, it is all for the love of the party and my people, because once you are tagged as NDC in those areas of the country, it is as you are an alien. So the little he could do to comfort the NDC members was to be there for them.
Such a personality, professional, a three-term parliamentary candidate and a legal team lead in the entire Ashanti region should not be enjoying the leftovers of the victory cake.
We appeal to the appointing authorities to speak to their pillows so they could remind them the name of Lawyer Evans Amankwah.
Before The Star Shines
To appreciate this piece in perfect language, let’s reflect on how a star is formed:
“Stars are formed from massive clouds of gas and dust called nebulae, which collapse under their own gravity. This collapse leads to the formation of a protostar, a hot, dense ball of gas. As the protostar continues to contract and heat up, the core eventually becomes hot and dense enough to initiate nuclear fusion, where hydrogen atoms fuse into helium, releasing tremendous amounts of energy. This energy creates outward pressure that balances the inward pull of gravity, resulting in a stable main sequence star.”
