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I TRULY PITY AKUFO-ADDO AND CO
By Dr. Michael
J.K. Bokor
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Folks, news reports about the arrest of
three South African combatants engaged in
activities considered as inimical to national
security are still spreading wild.
The three, Major Ahmed Shaik Hazis, 54,
(Rtd), WO/ Denver Dwayhe Naidu, 39, (Rtd) and
45-year-old Captain Mlungiseleli Jokani (Rtd)
were arrested at the El-Capitano Hotel, at Agona
Duakwa in the Central Region, while training
fifteen young men in various military drills,
including unarmed combat, weapon handling, VIP
protection techniques and rapid response
maneuvers.
The NPP hierarchy has been doing overtime to
explain issues, even muddying their own
political waters with inconsistencies and plain
lies.
A lot of people have come out to condemn the
NPP's choice of weapon for political contention.
I want to add my voice to say that the happening
really exposes Akufo-Addo's desperation and
political mischief or immaturity. I truly pity
him.
Elections are not won through such measures
but through a carefully worked-out political
mobilization process to win the minds, hearts,
and thumbs of the electorate.
What will equipping security details or
vigilantes of the NPP with military-style skills
fetch for Akufo-Addo at the polls if all that is
happening only ends up reinforcing the poor
opinion about him as a violent, intolerant and
unrepentant rogue politician bent on using every
means to be in power?
Granted that the
leading figures of the NPP even need protection,
should that protection not be given by the
orthodox and legitimate national security
apparatus as happens in other countries?
Given the NPP's penchant for street
demonstrations and acts bordering on
hooliganism, vandalism, and plain mayhem, does
giving military-style skills to its operatives
not endanger life in the country?
Given the fact that such characters can be
easily misused at the polls or to cause
selective sabotage when Akufo-Addo loses the
elections again, aren't we justified to conclude
that bringing in such ex-combatants is an
orchestration to endanger Ghana in the long run
when everything goes against the NPP?
And why have documents on the STL and its
personnel as part of the arsenal for training
those NPP operatives? What has the STL got to do
with the NPP's intended training for crowd
control?
Folks, no one should sit down to be cajoled
by Akufo-Addo and his gang. Whatever defence the
NPP is putting up is bogus. More harm will be
done by it; and Akufo-Addo's own defence of the
issue makes him all the more a scarecrow to the
people.
Ghanaians are peace-loving and will go where
they know they can find a leader to protect
them. Akufo-Addo is really lost in his own
schemes.
Beyond this point is the urgent need for the
government to retool the national security
apparatus and ensure that all resources are used
to strengthen and improve operations.
Rumours
have it that the BNI moved to arrest these South
African ex-combatants, acting on a tip-off from
someone probably in the NPP's own camp, which
raises eyebrows and questions the efficacy of
the BNI's own network.
What has become of its own personnel,
especially the District Officer for the Agona
Swedru area? How come that he couldn't know of
what was happening at that hotel? How about the
assignment involving hotel checks that such
personnel are to do periodically to alert
national security of happenings at such places?
Folks, the exposure of the NPP's clandestine
moves calls for better measures to safeguard
limb and property in the country. All that is
happening in other countries to threaten
national security has been the result of
political dissatisfaction and the misguided
stance of characters like Akufo-Addo who deceive
themselves that they are the legitimate rulers
and should be so endorsed by means other than
the polls.
The Ghanaian authorities must act properly.
I recall very well that in the late 1990's, the
NPP made moves to establish a private army. At
least, I was privy to information about that
move, especially with the deep involvement of
the late Major Courage Quashigah. Whatever
happened now seems to be channelled into the
vigilante groups being formed by the NPP all
over the country. Folks, the danger is real and
must be confronted.
Meantime, Paul Afoko says the NPP is nothing but
a political camp of madness. Yes, it is; and I
agree with him. Howe would they be feeling, and
what would they be doing, if it were Akufo-Addo
and not Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey who had died?
Politics means more than this muscle-flexing.
Tweeeeeeeeaaaa!!
I shall return…
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