Dictatorship brews gradually the signs only observed by the discerning. In our case those who are old enough to have witnessed Kwame Nkrumah’s 9-year-rule as President-1957 to 1966 understand the game-plan of President John Mahama which is subtly playing out through the obnoxious resetting of the judiciary.
Why would the executive be obsessed with tampering with the theory of separation of powers as laid out by Montesquieu.
The ongoing trickery to remove the Chief Justice from office is part of a grand plan to pave the way for President John Mahama to detach his current tenure from the his first dumsor and bad governance riddled one.
Information available to The Daily Gist suggests that although the project will crash, the President thinks that through a political engineering he could benefit from a judicial interpretation to mean that the two term limit should have an element of continuity to make it feasible. Breaking as it did when he lost after one term should render it inapplicable in his estimation. Even though he was collecting all his entitlements as a former president.
To achieve this goal he must first reset the judiciary by clearing the stable of persons who would not shy away from the proper interpretation of the law. Such persons stand to gain when the constitution is so altered.
This is the Ghana President John Mahama is seeking to reset. Unfortunately the project will be denied the wings to attempt flying in the first place let alone get airborne.
The acting Chief Justice has already fired the first shots of retrogressive resetting of the judiciary and it hurts to think that Ghana is being taken through such a trajectory. He is reported to have ordered all cases destined for the high courts should be seen by him so he can take the decision as to which judge adjudicates in such cases, jettisoning the existing process of automatic assignment using technology.
We so cherish our democracy in its pure form that whosoever seeks to alter it to satisfy their selfish parochial interests should not be allowed to have their way.
Trust Ghanaians who though might be slow at reacting to opprobrious decisions from their leaders when they do there is no going-back.
When an NDC-aligned Archbishop said that four-years is not enough for any government to effect the desired progress he was playing a part in the grand plan of President Mahama.
When such retrogressive actions are being planned you hardly get so-called friends of the burgeoning dictator to speak against it. It is only when the subject becomes poisoned beyond redemption and attracts the hatred of the public that such elements try to detach themselves from it.
For a President who has not hidden his love for his late dad’s party CPP it is unsurprising to see him applying some templates of the Osagyefo.
With the planned arrest of some opposition elements under trumped-up charges President Mahama is only playing out some pages from the Nkrumaist rule book.
Those who try the Osagyefo’s template must be ready to drink from the poisoned concoction waiting for them.
Ghana today doesn’t need a governance system poisoned by arbitrariness.
Dining with the Russians can result in such tendencies and even more.
