TEARS OF MAHAMA (Aura of Injustice and Shame)

I do not yet know the full fact of the just ended elections, therefore, permit me to talk about the elections from my view point.

Just last week, I read a news headline that suggested that some women in Keta went dragging their backsides on the streets to pronounce curses on the Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana for supervising a fraudulent national election. I witnessed firsthand the picketing at the EC office in Accra that got about thirty person (alleged NDC members)arrested.

I also saw a video that showed some youth in Kumasi burning car tyres in the middle of a busy road to demonstrate against the EC. Then came the news of Minority Members of Parliament facing stiff resistance from the police whilst they marched to present a petition to the EC.

All these happened, and continue to happen just because an election had taken place which was not deemed transparent enough.

The year of the almighty coronavirus pandemic seem to have come with more than just a disease. Though it gave some governments the opportunity to loot their nations' coffers dry, it also gave others the opportunity to "properly" demarcate national boundaries and confer citizenship on the people they like and strip it off those they don't in the quest to disenfranchise them, so that like Alasane Ouattara, they too could win elections in their countries at all cost.

Martin Luther King Jr. once said "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". And this is why I write this piece.

Even whilst I write this, the leader of Homeland Study Group Foundation, is in hiding in his own country. And a plebiscite won heavily through fraud, perpetrated by Kwame Nkrumah and Kɔmla Agbeli Gbedema is the reason why he is still in hiding. Many have gone into exile and died because of that election but no one wants to talk about it openly or even honour those who fought on the side of truth then.

When Former President Mahama was questioned about Western Togoland (WTL) he backed the fraudulent narrative, rubbished the history behind the agitation and instead of backing truth or demanding that the truth be unravelled in the Togoland argument, he rather even tried to deny the existence of a place called Western Togoland. As for the founder of the NDC who so loved truth and justice, he preferred to see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. It was a good strategy he maintained to the grave, because even his own nationality was for many years in contention.

What was the NDC's and candidate Fmr. President Mahama's interest? They simply want Volta to stay with Ghana and keep voting for them, even though even as president, Mahama pretended he didn't know the problems bedevilling the area. Those very problems that make it legitimate for the people to seek secession.

Today, rumours of another heavily rigged and non transparent collation of results has retained our old man as president of the Republic of Ghana. Interestingly, just like the plebiscite, where many were disenfranchised, the military deployed to intimidate voters and election results fictitiously collated and pronounced, this election has also gone through a similar ordeal. And Mr. Mahama who backed the victory of the the northern Unionist against the Ɛʋɛ Unionist with their sisters and brothers in Togo, is now at the receiving end and crying for justice which he doesn't want to seek through the legal system available now but prefers the street. Sadly, the legal system we have now wasn't even available to the then losers of the WTL plebiscite.

Martin Niemöller, after a life lived concluded "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionist, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jew and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me."

The Martins seem to have something for us all. Let us also not forget that just about two decades and a half ago President Nana Addo was among the"Kum preko" demonstrators. To the National Peace Council, The Catholic Bishops' Conference, and the various "neutral" or "impartial" organizations and everyone who chooses to be silent in the face of injustice, time, space and maybe life is all we need for this writeup to be relevant to you.