Speak Out When You Will

Free speech is only under siege not revoked, it cannot be. Ghana has reached a stage in her democratic journey where nobody, no government can usurp the freedom to free speech from her citizens.

Being a bastion of democracy, it should be constitutionally guarded with all the might of the good people of this country.

The hue and cry which has raised the political temperature of the country in recent times was prompted by the people's quest to stop those who are seeking to deny Ghanaians this freedom.

The signs that calculated machinations have been unleashed to deny us this freedom are palpable.

If the idea by those behind the incessant and senseless arrests is to cow Ghanaians into silence and submission, same will not be achieved, not at all.

While we call on all Ghanaians to be responsible in their utterances, we would in the same vein demand of them to speak out when traces of arbitrariness or tyranny are noticeable. The constitution bestows upon them this right regardless of the reset political agenda by those at the helm temporarily.

The period between 1964 and 1966 was when this country was enveloped in a cloud of silence; many Ghanaians were incarcerated under the obnoxious Preventive Detention Act (PDA) because their posturing did not align with the one-party state of the time. Some of the incarcerated died in prison, they never returned. Others, the fortunate ones, returned to a new Ghana when the gates of the prison were flung open; the times had changed.

We have moved on from that period, reaching another milestone which led to the coinage, 'Culture of Silence'.

The two should never again erupt in this our beloved country. The new dawn was captured in the constitution which bestowed upon us the freedom of speech among others.

The dangerous efforts to manipulate the relevant content of the constitution to achieve abominable political goals shall not be tolerated.

The constitution is emphatic about the two terms limit of Presidents. Nobody should be pulling strings to tamper with the meaning of this. We do not need any legalese to aid us comprehend this unambiguous aspect of the constitution.

Ghanaians are docile. They might be slow to react to situations, but they would surely do when their rights are trampled upon.

Those bootlickers and sycophants who have commenced the unachievable agenda of third-term should give us a break.

We have seen it before when Gen IK Acheampong dreamed of a Union Government, aka UNIGOV, and used multiple template to push it. It of course failed, and so will the sycophants do as they embark on pushing the nonsense through press conferences among others.

We shall speak, and loudly so.

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