Last week’s display of impunity by the NDC Central Regional Chairman and the MCE for the Awutu Senya East Municipal Assembly at the Obaaatanpa Radio, Kasoa with the police who had quickly deployed to the location but made no arrests raises an important moral question about law enforcement.
Should we take it that selectiveness in law enforcement prevails in the country? It would definitely appear so and we shudder to think that George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ scenario is playing out perfectly in this country under the current political administration?
The Police who deployed to the crime scene would have acted differently had the public nuisance and assault been attributed to non-NDC actors…and that is the source of worry.
The lawbreakers were NDC stalwarts who have the power to trigger the transfer of the cops at the Command to the remotest part of the country without looking back.
This is not how to build a country and should this continue the future is bleak.
We demand the immediate arrest of those who descended upon the radio station, assaulted staff of the place and locked it up with a threat by the Regional Party Chairman that next time he returns it would be under the hail of gunfire. There is no threat which parallels this and we are surprised that the source of the utterance was neither invited by the police nor arrested for making such inflammatory remarks.
The police virtually begged the chairman to release the keys to the radio station to them which he obliged anyway. He could have decided otherwise and the Police would have just walked away because under an NDC government appointees are not bound by the laws of the country because they are above them.
Those who attempt murder as in the case of a high profile personality are given soft bail conditions. Not so however those whose utterances are political and unpalatable to the government.
Ghana is descending into the abyss in terms of good governance and it is high time all girded their loins to demand a reversal of this perpetual decadence by persons who are expected to lead by good examples.
When appointees of government mess up themselves as the regional party chairman did by his irresponsible remarks on television he should not expect the action not to be discussed by the public.
If his misconduct was to obviate such a discussion he got it all wrong because not even the arbitrary arrests of those who shout out at government’s bad governance can deter the citizens of this country from speaking out. We won’t be gagged by the President let alone a regional chairman of the ruling party.
The regional chairman conduct in defending the constituency chairman and the MP over their amorous engagements on the public space is shameful and unbecoming of persons of their status.
In some jurisdictions they would have resigned their positions and apologized to Ghanaians for bringing the offices they hold into disrepute.
In all these neither the Presidency nor the NDC headquarters have issued condemnatory statements on the smelly conduct of the duo which is still resonating in respectable circles.
