Count on the Ghana Police Service under a John Mahama regime’s ability to track down those deemed to be anti-government in their remarks and you would be right.
The Signals Bureau, the Bureau of National Investigation and the Ghana Police CID are able to within the twinkle of an eye track down sources of anti-NDC remarks and to drag them to unknown locations…it is part of the reset agenda.
The mental torture family members and friends go through before locating those arrested under the unannounced security initiative is a borrowed entry from the communist rulebook.
The Adolf Hitler Gestapo policing is what is being unfolding here in Ghana today and it hurts to think that a country which made appreciable human rights inroads under the previous administration and Kufuor’s will lose same overnight.
News about the arrest of NPP constituency organizer David Essandoh with disregard to decency and respect for human dignity made appropriate headlines in both social and traditional media early this week.
The Russian style governance is unsurprising given the President’s association with the communist country even before assuming the reins of governance for the second time.
It is saddening to watch some police officers with relish doing the dirty work of their NDC inclined bosses unmindful about the repercussions awaiting them tomorrow.
The scene at the CID headquarters where pro-NDC officers in their service inscribed jackets trying to push away the leadership of the NPP who were there to seek the release of the organizer made a sad spectacle.
Ghana cannot contain communist tactics under a constitution which guarantees free speech and rule of law. This module which was embedded in Nkrumah’s one-party state agenda was long discarded until the PNDC junta came on the scene following which democratic rule was chosen by Ghanaians.
If the President and his party cannot live with democracy let them pack their baggage and exit the corridors of power.
The kitchen is hot and unbearable for those who threw tantrums at their opponents and longed for their deaths when they occupied opposition trenches. Today while in power they are unable to stand a little of the dosage of the garbage administered on their opponents yesterday.
Abusing the power of the state as being witnessed today is something which must be stopped forthwith. It is a bad precedent which has the tendency to be repeated when those who take over tomorrow decide to go a revenge spree.
Power must be used discretionally and with one’s thinking cap. When used otherwise and with the intent to ‘show others where power lies’ those responsible for the anathema will account for their evil deeds tomorrow which is just around the corner.
The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia could not have put it any better when he cautioned those who abuse state power to remember that when tomorrow comes they will account for the breaches.
The number of persons who have so far been invited, arrested and even remanded under the watch of President John Mahama is relatively astronomical and points at possible government intention to silence dissent.
Ghana is at the crossroads and all who have her interest at heart must stand up and be counted.
All is not well with a country when her citizens start getting apprehensive over their possible arrest when they express dissenting opinions about governance.
It happened between 1963 and 1966…it is happening again today and we dread what lies in store for our country’s future. Is that the reset agenda promised Ghanaians? Of course it is. A sense of presentiment looms over the country.
