Attack On Another Daughter Of Ghana, Hon. Zanetor Rawlings. The Unpatriotic And Unrepentant NPP Minority's Behavior Must Be Halted, Not Watered By The NDC.

What wrong or crime did Ghana commit at all with all due respect, to be unluckily gifted with a ‘stubbornly unrepentant’ minority members of Parliament in the 9th legislature of Ghana? Maybe, more Hard lessons in a Castle for them may send a constant NDC Victory reminder to them at all times to know that governance is not about 'Silly business' nor is it about singing lullaby to 'Silly Children'.

Has the definition of learning been recently changed to no longer aim at causing a permanent change in behavior? Or is there an urgent need for the services of a psychologist, with all due respect, to administer some therapeutic interventions to save the may be remaining little dignity of self, womanhood, leadership, government institutions, children, and even if not for the country Ghana at all, at least for humanity?

There seems to be a crisis and a solution of the same at the door steps of Parliament. The solution appears to be consciously being ignored because of some perceived gain in playing to the gallery. That solution is vested in unity, transparency, accountability and rule of law. A solution that must not champion the cause of selfishness and defense of the indefensible, thievery and cover-ups.

Will Ghanaians be spared these blatant verbal diarrhea if Parliamentary deliberations and vetting of ministers were held in camera and not for the cameras?

Parochial interests must not be seen to be clouding or substituting national interests. Be it directly or indirectly, for the consequences of injuries inflicted by the unpatriotic loose talkers to a nation like Ghana, may take decades to be attempted to treat it without the blessings of cure. The pain from the injuries will continue to be cyclical and felt by even generations unborn if the unpatriotism is not halted immediately.

Must election loss cause the loss of our sanctity of thoughts, morals and values? Where is that one thing that binds all Ghanaians as one people gifted that Freedom and Justice on that fateful March 6, 1957?

Have the spirits of our forefathers and their supportive mothers departed from guiding the nation they shed their blood and brainstormed day and night to salvage?

Can the NPP borrow the voices of the Late Hon. B. J. Da Rocha a founding member of the NPP, Former Speaker Peter Ala Adjetey, Late Hon. Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, H.E. the former Vice President, the Late Alhaji Aliu Mahama, and the respected J. H. Mensah of blessed memory, at least if the voices of their living Elders like Dr. Nyaho Nyaho Tamaklo and an Astute economist, Andrew Kwame Pianim is no longer sounding pleasant to their ears?

What happened to matured and the enviable coherent debating skills devoid of unparliamentary languages of the honorable men of those good days in the 3^rdParliament of the 4^th Republic like the Late Hon. Joseph Darko-Mensah, former NPP MP for Okaikoi North in the Greater Accra Region, Honorable Edward Baffoe Bonnie, former MP for Asokwa constituency, Honorable Kan Dapaah, former MP for Afigya Sekyere West in Ashanti Region, and the Hon. Alhaji Mustapha Ali, former MP for Gukpegu/Sabongida constituency in the Northern Region, Hon. Hackman Owusu-Agyemang, former MP for New Juaben North constituency in the Eastern Region, and Hon. Christine Churcher, former MP for Cape coast constituency in the Central Region, and many more respectable former honorable MPs, including the former President Nana Akuffo Addo then as an MP for Abuakwa South constituency in the Eastern Region?

Somebody needs to sit the NPP party down and consciously take steps to rescue the party from collapse and to instill discipline, especially in the members of the 9^th Parliament, for some statements, reactions and verbal assaults emanating from the minority in Ghana’s Parliament need an immediate attention to reverse the growing disrespect to the house, the constituents who they represent and the people of Ghana.

With all due respect, I want to believe it will not be out of place to engage the services of clinical psychologists to render consultation services to members of parliament, especially the minority caucus who have just come out of a shock of an elections that the outcome was never envisaged, for some recent happenings in Parliament and the many verbal diarrhea by some of the MPs may be a psychological issue that requires utmost attention.

Just when the whole country was coming to terms with the recent despicable unwarranted verbal assaults on a female Parliamentary Clerk by the Minority leader and some of his cheerleaders in his camp, another MP was cooking another attack for his peer female MP. On Parliamentary Clerk's predicament, the Speaker had to intervene and set the records straight to expose as incorrect some of the things the minority viciously leveled against the Clerk of the Parliamentary vetting committee. According to the Speaker, the Clerk had nothing to do with what the minority leader was accusing her to have done. She was just following orders from her superior, the Speaker clarified.

This time, it is a member of Parliament loudly abusing another female in Parliament verbally on the floor of Parliament. Hon. Zenator Agyeman-Rawlings’ crime was that she stood up to catch the eye of the Speaker to raise a Point of Order when the minority leader, Afenyo Markins was making a submission. An MP from the Minority side was heard on top of his voice shouting “sit down daughter of a murderer” referring to the Late former president J.J. Rawlings who is the father of the honorable member of Parliament for Klottey Korle constituency in the Greater Accra Region.

When the minority leader prompted Zenator’s abuser, even in pidgin using the word ‘Chalie’ to catch his attention and cautioned him with some facial expression, the unrepentant abuser he is, was not perturbed and went further to state in a local language Twi, that there is evidence to his wild allegation. He will be cheered on by some of the minority NPP members with laughter.

I look forward to the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin disciplining whoever that MP is. Else, he should be ready to continue counting the worst abusive statements and actions on the floor of Parliament or committee sittings, especially after pardoning and recalling of the recently suspended four MPs when they had not served the full two-week suspension slapped on them. Is that the picture Parliament of Ghana wants to paint about itself to the world? The argument that the speaker has no authority to suspend MPs is outrageous. Who then is to correct the wrongs? Must Ghanaians wait until another four years to punish their MP by voting them out when they misbehave then? May be in cases like that, a motion must be moved by the majority to request suspension of the misbehaved MPs. After all, the majority is on the side of the behavior conscious NDC MPs.

The NDC party and Parliamentarians must immediately wake up if they are under some kind of a spell. They must know that they lose the number of votes among those who elevated them to their respective seats and positions each day they assume a soft stance to the many unhealthy combative stances of their opponents in the minority. The multiplying effect of that loss if that father-for-all, that my-friend or the my-brother attitude continues, will be sadly divided and painfully distributed in their respective constituencies to negate their current ‘lovely’ and celebrated super majority come 2028.

The NDC party and MPs must not confuse their confidence, firmness and fairness to mean arrogance and disrespect, and to begin caving in quickly. Perception of arrogance and disrespect will always be alive. However, that perception will equally always be buried under the feet of empirical successes that bring satisfaction and happiness to the people. The current unrepentant NPP minority knows your worth and the substance in you. They equally know they are NOT at par with you when it comes to substance and tenets of governance. They are aware they do not have the men with their current group in the 9th Parliament, and have resorted to disruptions and deceiving the citizenry using their pro media houses established to do the same.

The NDC must dictate the pace to make a positive case, and not be ultimately seen trying hard to save face. The people of Ghana did not repose that overwhelming confidence and trust in your good selves only to see that confidence and firmness being easily eroded by the people the same Ghanaians rejected because of their failure. Succumbing to their periodic dictates and archaic populist strategies and propaganda, will make the NDC bigger failures, if there is a description like that.

You do not sweat over the smell of flatulence on your clothes when you know it is not a bad smelling smoke or strong odor from a stain that will stay with the cloth for a long time.

Neither must you invest in an expensive detergent to remove a brief smelling flatulence that will diffuse in the open from your cloth; a smell that will always be chaperoned away by naturally gifted fresh air, or drowned away by the power of your fresh smelling perfume.

If the NDC party has not done the needed introspection yet to understand the mighty weight placed on their shoulders by Ghanaians, the time is now to do just that.

Your founder who ushered in the 4^th Republic of Ghana with a democratic foundation that has not wavered, though coming from a military background, is now under attack on the floor of Parliament as a murderer and accompanied by laughter by some members of Parliament of the same Ghana he ( the founder) cherished and defended boldly internationally? Knowing he is no more to defend himself? What an unrepentant minority gifted Ghana, pardon me to ask?

Your founder and former president of the Republic of Ghana's daughter and a honorable member of Ghana’s legislature, a woman, is under attack for doing what her constituency sent her to do.She is under attack by another member of the legislature whose constituency may have certainly not sent him to verbally abuse women and to denigrate a former president who is Late with a murderer tag, and laughs over it with his colleagues MP, and it is going to be the usual apology?

Your party NDC is under attack, and being fed with slow and silent poison with some of your MPs gulping it with a smile while your opponents laugh in private. Your constituencies are being denied their rightful winners to represent them. Your preoccupation must not be to wipe the dust and dirt on the clothes of your opponents off to make them happy and comfortable to stain your clothes in return, and exhibit it to the good people of Ghana.

Honorable Sam George and Honorable Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa showed you the antidote during the recent ministerial vetting. You adopt it, to guard yourselves or adapt to the status quo to sell out yourselves.

Do not be fooled to believe that the current NPP minority is upbeat about partnering you to reset Ghana, for their actions and inactions appears to be sending a clear objective of distraction, carefully planned to slow your reset agenda and win them votes to redeem their lost respect in the valley of ‘micro’ minority, where climbing to the mountain top to be respected and taken seriously will be a daunting task.

You, as NDC MPs must sit up and act now, for it is no longer only your blood that runs in your veins, nor the sound of only your heart beat you must be comfortable to hear. The blood of all Ghanaians runs in your veins now by virtue of your representation in Parliament as majority, and you MUST endeavor to at all times consciously hear the struggling heart beats of all Ghanaians, including those who did not vote for you, for their hearts beat too.

It is about time all MPs and Public Service office holders remind themselves that public service is a sacred contract between them and the people, and the parties in this contract must not disrespect and insult the intelligence of each other, especially the people they serve, for the punishment of the people, from the people, amongst whom the voiceless and the vulnerable are assured of their RIGHTS, if not instantly administered, will always ly in the belly of posterity.

I rest my PEN.
Mustapha Alhassan
Pennsylvania, USA.