Gizelle Yajzi the shameless

E. Ablorh-Odjidja

August 20. 2010

It doesn't matter how much pleasure those who want to shame Kufuor gain from Ms. Yajzi’s presence in Ghana. The fact is nothing is ever going to compensate the perception she has of our nation Ghana as a foolish, clueless state.

This woman claims she has twins with former President Kufuor. Soon after, she declares that she has evidence of corruption against him and she becomes an instant heroine!

Some actors have jumped, with glee, into a case that ought to have been entirely private; strictly a matter between former President Kufuor, his wife, and, perhaps, Yajzi.

And with the presence of some of these actors, who are mostly NDC politicians, it is not hard to assume some interest on the part of the state to support Ms. Yajzi without bothering to ask which issue comes first, the twins or the corruption.

But never mind, this is obviously a government that has penchant for tension between it and the previous Kufuor administration and views that as a necessity for “effective” governance.

Certainly, Yajzi interest in the corruption case can be attributed to her feeling of having been jilted by Kufuor; true or delusional. She has already admitted a sexual relationship with him, hence the twins. But the twins’ charge could also be based on sheer fantasy. We will need the help of a psychiatrist here.

What we know through life of hard knocks is that some people are schemers and risk takers. The women among them will do almost anything to get their men. And failing that, they would do the reverse to harm them.

Here is a classic case of a woman obviously star-struck by the then sitting president, but, nevertheless, a woman who also faced the prospect of a declining fortune. She lost her job with the Castle; a job that, even if we were to believe her, was not made secure by love alone. And, along with this was the suffering of declining attraction, made more potent daily by age; at least in her own eyes as a woman. Given this situation, a lover’s unresponsive attitude, real or imagine, can cause a shift in mental balance.

Dr. Louann Brizendine, of University of California, San Francisco, author of The Female Brain once wrote."Every person who falls in love becomes crazily obsessed with their love object. Your brain is flooded with dopamine, oxytocin, estrogen, and testosterone. The amygdala and the anterior cingulate cortex—your worry and caution centers—get turned way down. It's a lot like being on Ecstasy."

It is probably true that this tendency can be present in gold-diggers too! And then, suddenly, the wake up call. You are jilted.

Ms. Yajzi can show up in Ghana to act on her unrequited love, go naked like a mad woman in the streets of Accra and still be capable of generating some sympathy from a section of a very gullible Ghanaian public. But must a whole government go along with her madness and for what purpose?

Men do drive women crazy when the desire for them is strong. The situation works both ways, but in the case of former President Kufuor it is Ms. Yajzi who had exhibited publicly the desire most. You just don’t claim, true or false, that you had twins with a man, absent of rape, without admitting to the rest of the world that there was a modicum of desire on your part when you first went to bed with him.

As to what transformed Ms. Yajzi’s desire into revenge of such a grand scale, along with the political intrigue, only she, her handlers or her psychiatrist may know. We can only state that she is disappointed at somebody and, perhaps, herself for not landing the big catch that was the former president.

But the desire for sweet revenge at all cost is harming her case; never mind the musings of a gullible segment of the Ghanaian public. From the original claim of fathering two twins, she is now imputing corruption in a loan transaction. The case of “Hotel Kufuor” funding is now her main cause. The fight to link twins’ with their supposed father has receded to the background.

The curious part of this peculiar scheme is the high political interest it has generated among the ranks of the governing NDC party. On the surface, the interest is focused on the loan. Behind the loan façade, the common cause with Ms. Yajzi to do harm.

But, the interesting point is, since the source for the loan is not the state of Ghana and, by every indication, is a private business matter based on credit worthiness, why the high political interest? Why is Ms. Yajzi being allowed to exploit the political discord between Kufuor and the current administration to the detriment of the good name of the country?

Ms. Yajzi’s argument that the president’s son could not have gotten the loan on his own merit is one without worth. Could fathers support the credit worthiness of their sons and must this right or privilege stop once a president? I am not aware of any constitutional provision that limits the rights of a father in this regard.

So how is Ms. Gizelle Yajzi harmed? The bank that offered the loan is not claiming false presentation or representation by Kufuor and son. Perhaps, she thinks the opportunity for the loan cheats her sons out of similar birthrights, just as she was supposedly cheated out of love by the president's commitment to his only wife. Even so, before any claim or statement on this matter is allowed, she needs to produce her twins, the main causes of all this national embarrassment, and for them to be DNA tested.

A responsible government, not out to blacken the reputation of former President Kufuor, will demand proof of paternity first, and failing that will run her out of town to stop this national farce.
 

E. Ablorh-Odjidja,Publsiher www.ghanadot.com, Washington, DC, August 20, 2010

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