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18.11.2014 Editorial

It Shall Come To Pass  

By Daily Guide
It Shall Come To Pass
18.11.2014 LISTEN

Nayele Ametefeh aka Ruby Adu Gyamfi aka Angel
We are constrained to comment once again about the worrying trend of drug trafficking against the backdrop of the politicisation of same.

It is the umpteenth time that we are doing so and believe we have not reached the end of it yet.

In the myriad commentaries about drugs from our end, we have not minced words about the awfulness and inappropriateness of the political tagging of the criminality.

For us, being unmindful about what this can cause us as a nation, smacks of massive irresponsibility, especially coming from politicians who preach patriotism but hardly meet its standards.

Many have benefited from the mischievous pastime to the detriment of the health of the nation; the net negative effects of the drug tag on the integrity of individual Ghanaians and the nation can only be imagined.

Today the country has been thrown, once more, into a national conversation about how a lady exported a mammoth quantity of cocaine as security agents turned their attention elsewhere obviously on purpose. It hurts as a nation when we remember that what is unfolding is all but a de ja vu:  another food for thought if we care to consume it for our national good.

Ruby Adu Gyamfi, alias Angel, has made foul headlines since her story was disseminated across the world. She is sharing the humiliation with her compatriots.

When we politicise drugs and other crimes, we lose the ability to gird our loins to fight the menace even when we scream from rooftop about our so-called commitment to fighting it.

Ruby or Angel has ridden high for a long time, rubbing shoulders with important personalities in the ruling party.

Many questions are being posed about how such a large quantity of cocaine could originate from our shores with so much ease. Could she have benefited from her association with the ruling party?

Motley state agencies must tell us why Angel defied detection. The Narcotics Control Board, Customs, Excise and Preventive Service and others should tell us the role each of them played or did not play.

Unfortunately, it is a wrench when scandals are traceable to the bedroom or sitting room of the highest citizen of the land.

We are our own enemies as a people. Unless we alter our ways, we would discover when it is too late that we have shot ourselves in the foot.

In a previous commentary about a drug bust, we noticed how various party activists played their part in a propaganda chess game that sought to muddy the waters in their favour. Upon the return home of the convict after serving his term in the US, persons were bussed to the airport in NPP T-shirts to make a propaganda statement. Although it did not achieve its goal, the suggestion of a worrying trend of political tagging of crime could not be suppressed.

We did state that it shall come to pass. So has it been and shall continue to be unless we pull the brakes.

 
 

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