Fox Outfoxed

The last time congresspeople felt aggrieved by judges, it painfully, regrettably and sorrowfully created a monument of 'Martyrs of Justice.' By that, my compatriots ought to be vigilant to act to stop any demonising of the justice system and the judges who operate it. Heard a congress house leader scandalise with blatant bribery pathological lie?

Even 'responsible' people are crowing 'Ghanaians will lose faith in the judicial system if Jean Mensa evades cross-examination.' So the law should be bent to satisfy congresspeople? Those spineless people have led the motherland to succumb to congresspeople's cry-baby whims and caprices blackmail since they burst onto the Ghanaian political scene.

Through the backdoor, they violently overthrew the freest and fairest democratically elected Limann government. Now they claim to have founded 'democracy' which by all 1993-2000 indicators was a pseudo.

We should all be on our guard. Let those who know the law quickly and effectively debunk the lies congress hardly-know-the-law people are spewing around and about in vicious propaganda that there'll be no justice. They never heard: 'S/He who alleges must prove.'

We used to call them Moro Moro in film showing indigenous American people dancing around a captured enemy in preparation for sacrifice. The dance would be followed by pouncing. That's what congresspeople do.

Column pieces August 16 and 30, 2010, August 6, 2012, August 26, 2013, and April 26, 2016 featured adjudicators and adjudication. This is revisiting; because of the noises of demonising I am hearing and reading. Voices and writings on/of MPs, cadres, footsoldiers, vilifying adjudication and adjudicators abound. Much of what I hear and read is naked threat. Let all remember the actions that followed threats in 1982.

Once, chairman, who died ahead of the founder, said there were many ways for dealing with adjudicators as happens with cat killing. That was followed by an ill-intentioned private investigator immorally baiting people in the adjudicating circles. It became ammunition for a tsunami of demolition of that arm of government.

Someone just wrote if it happened in Liberia and Kenya and Malawi, it could happen in our motherland. I'm glad he didn't write it should happen now. It did not happen in the motherland in 2013 when it should have happened. Then, everyone who followed the proceedings could easily tell deliberate stealing. Today, everyone watching can see that some people want to punish everyone because they were derelict in discharging their watchdog responsibility.

Big big congress leadership people forgot their simple watchman assignment. I overhead a cadre saying once assigned as poll watching agent, they sacrifice food and sleep to be vigilant. He's confused how anyone tasked with ensuring strong room integrity which mattered most, after polling station hard work, could have so carelessly (I can't write the actual word he used) abandon their posts. And it wasn't one at a time abandoning, but both at the same time!!

Wonders will never end when it comes to telling who is right and who is not right or wrong. In 2013, what they said was right was not right with many, many compatriots. Today, the one accusing another of stealing says he has no figures. The two who were the watchdogs say they don't have figures because they were sent away to drink tea without biscuit and actually, therefore, left without any figures.

Effectively, they heard no figures, saw no figures and did no figures themselves. My compatriots, just listen again: they heard no figures to tell or produce when they were asked about figures. They also did not see any figures because they were denied the opportunity to see. And they did not do any figures because they were not the ones to do figures.

Because of all that, my age mate septuagenarians and those above, and everyone below, except if seventeen or lower, should wake up midnight to dawn to morning to queue. Then we should stand in rain or hot sun so we can do what they want. And you know what they want, an opportunity to steal a mandate. Once they have it, they can then chop our money.

And you know they want to chop the money mercilessly: keeping us in 'dumsɔ' without electricity. Students and schoolchildren will suffer looking for light to study. Businesses of all shapes, sizes and kinds will collapse because of lack of electricity. To make enough (sorry as much money as we think too much but they see as not enough), they would withdraw all grants for education including abandoning the free SHS. In fact, you can be sure schools for children with disabilities will all be callously closed. They did it before, and they will do it again!

All the bauxite deposits will go to a brother who plans and engineers bank raiding. Meanwhile, he would be relentlessly pursuing born one constituency one child.

So let those who know how to pray for results pray hard that let not Liberia, nor Kenya nor Malawi, no matter how right and pleasant they were, happen to us this time round. Let that happen to us should congress ever succeed in stealing an election again.

So far in the battles of interrogatories and forcing a witness to testify, the fox has been outfoxed. I am now beginning to believe that the fox was a good teacher because, in my humble view, a teacher who does not produce a single student who turns out to better him cannot be a good teacher. If his student(s) end up outfoxing him by winning against his error-ridden election petition case, that will confirm he is a good teacher.

By Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh