Victoria L. Hammah
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on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By
William Yaw Owusu
Thursday,
December 18, 2014
Her infamous comment that she wanted to make $1million
before she quits politics has earned Victoria Hamah, the sacked Deputy Minister
of Communications a description as one of the ‘craziest’ African politicians in
a new book published recently in London.
The book titled: “The Fat Boy with the Bomb and 299
more of the World Craziest Politicians” was authored by Brian O'Connell and pictures
by Norm Chung both based in Oxford, United Kingdom and published by Myrmidon
with ISBN 9781910183090. The controversial book published in November is being
sold at £12.99.
The fat boy is in reference to the Supreme Leader of
North Korea, Kim Jong-un who has gained notoriety for human rights abuse, pushing
his impoverished country to the brink of war with its neigbours.
Ms. Hamah who is no stranger to controversy was
ranked alongside top politicians including Equatorial Guinea’s President
Teodoro Obiang Mbasogo, South Africa’s firebrand, Julius Malema and Zimbabwe’s octogenarian
President Robert Mugabe as the 10 ‘craziest’ on the continent today.
She is the only Ghanaian featured in the book.
‘The
Million Dollar Woman’
Of Ms. Hamah, the book which subtitled her version
as ‘The Million Dollar Woman’ said “the former Deputy Minister of
Communications who wanted to bag $1 million wealth before leaving her job, is
now better known as a sex commentator and host of a show called ‘Chocolate
Factory’.”
“Ghanaians reckon she’s a beauty, or at least some
of them do. One publication calls her a ‘Goddess of Beauty’. The Former Deputy
Minister of Communications may be down but not out. She got booted out of
government by President John Dramani Mahama when a secretly recorded tape of
her emerged in which she said she didn’t want to squabble with her boss because
she had yet to bag $1 million in her job.”
The book said “the scandal has been dubbed
‘Vikileaks’ in the local media. The driver of the car in which she was in when
she made the statement and who secretly recorded her was a cousin of the sacked
former Deputy Communications Minister. In November of 2013 the former Ablekuma
West parliamnentary candidate of the governing National Democratic Congress was sacked.”
Radio
Interview
Quoting her recent appearance on Starr Fm, the author said Ms. Hamah in
September she said on the radio station, ‘politics has no end, I’m in politics,
I’m a politician, I live for that’.
“She stays prominent in the media for both good and
bad reasons. She hosts Real Talk
which is broadcast on TV3 and Chocolate Factory which is played on Multi TV. Both sometimes address
salacious sexual issues.”
Complicated
Love Life
“There’s
also her complicated love life. In September 2014, according to the Daily Guide, Hamah ‘stormed the Dansoman
Police Station in Accra and reported her boyfriend, Richard Frimpong Dardo, to
the police after they had disagreed on an issue about sexual intercourse.
Victoria was said to have told the police that Dardo had beaten her up and
stolen (from) her (an) unspecified amount of money’.”
The book said “the paper further reported that Dardo
claimed that Hamah wanted him to perform a specific sexual act he wasn’t
prepared to do and then berated him,” adding “five days later the police issued
a warrant for Dardo’s arrest on fraud charges relating to the sale of six
kilograms of gold but by that time the late night spat over sex was forgotten and
Hamah had a change of heart and stormed the police station demanding his
release and proclaiming his innocence.”
Other
‘Crazy’ Leaders
Apart from Presidents Mbasogo, Mugabe as well as
Julius Malema the former ANC Youth leader who left South Africa’s ruling party
to form Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the book also captures Eritrea’s
President Isias Afwerki, Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Joseph Kabila,
Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni as well as Nigeria’s President Goodluck
Jonathan.
It also highlights the ‘deeds’ of current governor
of Ekiti State in Nigeria Ayo Fayose who was described as the man “who
personally led a gang of thugs that beat up judges,” and Namibia’s Epafras
Mukwiilongo who is the head of the dreaded Namibian Economic Freedom Fighters
(NEFF).
World’s
‘crazy’ leaders
The book does not ‘deal’ with Africa alone. It also
captures the world’s high profile politicians who are ‘crazy’.
The top ten are joined by many other European and
especially UK politicians profiled in the book, including French far-right
politicians Jean-Marie Le Pen and Bruno Gollnisch, head of the UK Independence
Party, Nigel Farage, Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, neo-nazi German Udo
Voigt, Hungarian far-right MEP Krisztina Morvai, Italy’s Alessandra Mussolini
and Latvia’s Tatyana Zhdanok, as well as other politicians from the Americas,
Asia and Australia.
“The book identifies the downright dangerous
leaders, as well as the just plain stupid lawmakers from around the world,
bringing together Bible-belt Americans, African dictators and neo-Nazi
Europeans among the 300 in the book.”
“The book has angered the ‘Supreme Leader’ of North
Korea, Kim Jong-un. The cover image depicts the North Korean leader as a chubby
child holding a nuclear weapon and mercilessly pokes fun at the dictator and
other international leaders,” the authors said.
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