In a blistering and emotional outburst, youth activist and development consultant Emmanuel Osei Gyamfi has come out swinging against the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
He’s accusing them of “criminal neglect” and “wasted opportunity” following the death of the revered inventor, Apostle Dr. Kwadwo Safo, widely known as “Africa’s own Tesla.”
Gyamfi’s fiery tirade was a direct response to a tribute from former Vice President and 2028 NPP flagbearer hopeful, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. Bawumia had praised Apostle Safo as a “pioneer of indigenous innovation.”
“We love dead heroes,” Gyamfi shot back in a statement. “We ignore them in life and praise them in death. That’s the Ghanaian way and it’s shameful!”
According to Gyamfi, the late Apostle Safo created groundbreaking technologies that could have revolutionized Ghana’s industrial sector, yet the NPP—while in power—failed to provide him with support or nationalize his innovations.
“We had a goldmine in our hands, and we let it slip through our fingers,” he blasted. “Now all we offer are sweet words and condolences. Pathetic!”
He recounted his own tireless efforts to push for a partnership between the government and Apostle Safo when the inventor was alive.
“When NPP was in power, I spoke, I shouted, I wrote—but no one listened!” he exclaimed.
Gyamfi believes the party had a duty to “nationalize and institutionalize” the Kantanka brand to make it accessible to millions of young Ghanaians, which would have put the country on the world map and tackled youth unemployment.
He also claimed that Kantanka, like many other Ghanaian-owned businesses, “suffered under the NPP,” contributing to the party’s historic defeat in the 2024 elections.
Gyamfi urged the party to learn from this, stating they “urgently and wisely need to choose new leaders who are business-friendly and doers rather than rhetoric lovers” to improve their chances in 2028.
Now that the genius is gone, Gyamfi feels it’s a case of too little, too late. “God’s gift to Ghana is gone. Leadership has failed us, and history will not be kind. The judgment will come!” he warned.
Gyamfi’s raw emotion paints a disturbing picture of a nation that celebrates its innovators only after they are gone, a country that may have just buried one of its greatest industrial minds without ever fully realizing his potential.