How Serious are the NDC – Strategizing to Win Election 2012?

Will I not be 100% right to conclude that Ghanaians have witnessed numerous unnecessary instances of official accusations of, and arrests for, "causing fear and panic" in the year 2010? The until now confused and directionless NDC government in place with her politicized police force is trigger-happy to invoke Article 208 under the Ghana Constitution - "Causing fear and panic". The propensity, at which the article is invoked - on trivialities, arouses suspicion of political persecutions and the resolute determination by the Atta Mills' administration to intimidate Ghanaians.

Ghanaians will recall that the indiscriminate citations of the article protuberantly started with the case of Nana Darkwah, my own Kumawuman compatriot. Nana Darkwah had opined on radio that Former President Togbe Avaklasu Jeremiah John Rawlings was in all probability the author of the conflagration that gutted the Rawlings' house on the night of 14th February 2010. Barely had Nana Darkwah expressed this personal opinion when he was bundled by the police on orders, and at the signal crack of the fingers of the notorious Kofi Adams, the Spokesperson for Togbe Avaklasu J.J. Rawlings. The Ghana police force that is currently lopsidedly NDC-supportive, absurdly without hesitation charged Nana Darkwah with "causing fear and panic" in public. How can alleging that Rawlings set fire to his own residence cause fear and panic to the public? If Nana Darkwah's allegation was as baseless as believed by most of the NDC sympathisers who are quick to react but slow to

think, he could at worst be charged with libel on request by Rawlings. His claim was nowhere near crime that is prosecutable by the State yet; the seemingly misfit and oppressive NDC administration through their political opaque lenses shamelessly saw him as a big time criminal and treated him as such. Anyway, the case in the end collapsed like a pack of playing cards according as predicted in my published articles in defence of the rule of law apparently infringed upon by the Atta Mills' government.

In quick succession of the exhibition of the ignorance, biases and obviously loathed politicization of the Ghana police, one Ato Dadzie, Amina Mohammed and another guy in Kumasi were all arrested on same charge of causing fear and panic in public, just to mention a few. In all these incidents where cautious investigations devoid of the ongoing nonsensical applications of "fear and panic" were required, the police blundered again and again to the amazement of many a discerning Ghanaians.

Is it not rather the government and the police that are causing "fear and panic" in Ghana by their unreasonable arrests of those volunteering information - Amina for example? To the NDC, instilling oppressive fear in the governed is political correctness. This is epitomized by their lawless-inhered so-called foot-soldiers who in many documented ways have inflicted acts of lawlessness on many Ghanaians especially, those perceived as NPP members or sympathisers with impunity. Are they not recompensed for their acts of lawlessness by the government? Did Atta Mills not publicly order all his government Ministers to receive these foot-soldiers, listen to their problems and resolve them? A good President would rather have requested of his Ministers to find means to resolving the problems confronting the entire youth of the nation but not specify that the individual problems of the foot-soldiers be looked at and resolved. These are NDC for you with their policy

of segregation or divide and rule at its best.
Just last week, the NDC gurus led by Paul Victor Obeng, a classical corrupt entity, headed off to Cape Coast. Their main agenda was to devise a stratagem to winning the 2012 national elections. I laughed my head off when I read about their intention. In the midst of the NDC being obviously rudderless, the economic hardships confronting the nation, the flagrant prevalence of insecurity, the great NDC strategists have the shameless indecency to reconvene to discuss how best to win election 2012. What a Ghanaian politician's short-sightedness in pursuit of their socio-economic emancipation. Do the NDC take Ghanaians for fools? Their immediate concern is not about addressing the current umpteen problems facing the nation but about how to linger on as the ruling political party for many more years to come.

The NDC top brass are piling up pressure on Rawlings to eschew his waywardness which may be a recipe for disaster to the NDC party come 2012. He is now being treated like a bad boy who needs to be hit hard after refusing to listen - "if you don't hear it, you will feel it" Rawlings is said to have realised how his yobbish attitude has caused tensions within his own founded political party. Back to his senses, he is now chastising his own wife for aspiring to contest President Mills for the NDC's flag-bearer's slot for the year 2012. But will the obstinate wife listen and stay away? We live to see. It must be noted that "Obstinacy is the cause of the horns of the hornbill" The damage caused to Atta Mills by the Rawlingses is only reparable if and only if, they will lick back their vomit. Let us see how this arrogant couple will swallow their pride to say sorry to Fiifi Mills, the NDC, and the nation.

I expect the NPP to win election 2012. Most Ghanaians are beckoning to the NPP to come back saying, "San beware me me yere dadaa" But winning the election for the NPP will be an uphill battle. I wish they don't condescend to their usual sloppy complacency which attitude cost them election 2008.

Most Ghanaians find themselves at crossroads in their socio-politico-economic emancipation. They look forward to the NPP to liberate them from the ongoing political suppression and dehumanization under the current NDC administration. Should the NPP fail to help them realise their dream, then they will say to the NPP, "In the end we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends" - Martin Luther King Jnr.

Rockson Adofo