AND THEY CALL THEMSELVES DEMOCRATS.

In the art of life, everybody must be a self starter
We cannot wait for lucky breaks
We cannot demand our cheers in advance
T o sit down and wait for the propitious moment
When fate will smile on us
Is to court personal disaster.

The NDC has, since its inception which arose out of the illusion of an ex Flight Lieutenant who dreamt and saw himself as leader of the entire continent of Africa, made violence, intimidation, abduction and peddling of false and unsubstantiated allegations against the Noble Peoples Party, hereby referred to as the Nnipa Pa Party. These have been the official strategy of the NDC.

It is no wonder that Rawlings and some chosen cronies watched with glee the execution of Halidu Giwah, Malik, Sarkodee, Bismarck Owusu Boamah, Adongba and Djaba just as Abacha enjoyed watching the hanging of Ken Saro- Wiwa and the 8 Ogoni Chiefs in Nigeria. We learnt that Rawlings and his cronies popped bottles of Champaign, thumped themselves up and shouted, “Alas, the infidels are finished!”

Aye Kumi, Nkrumah's one time financial adviser died a wretched man. His three-storey house in the Ringway Estate, THE price Hotel and a Housing Estate in Sekondi were taken away from him by Rawlings. Rawlings and his NDC took away the house that was built for Madam Fathia Nkrumah, wife of the late President Nkrumah and gave it to late Justice D.F.Annan. When Dr Hilla Liman, late President of Ghana's Third Republic was ill, Rawlings and his NDC did nothing for him and allowed him to die a wretched person. We have realized that it was done on purpose. He did that so that he and he only would remain the only ex-President in the country. But did all these acts reveal traits of somebody who loves Dr Nkrumah and what he stood for? Absolutely not!

The NDC, a party which traces its antecedent from the AFRC/PNDC has been condemning people without any justifiable cause and proof. But when it involves one of its own members, then the Government is being unfair, is vindictive and indulging in selective justice. My brothers and sisters, analyze this scenario. Francis Donkor was MD of Ghana Motor Company [GHAMOT], formerly Tata Motors. Agyei Mantey was Chief Internal Auditor; Fred Asante was Spare parts Manager whilst one Nanor was Senior Checker. In the early 80's soldiers went to Mr. Asante's house to arrest him at 2.00am and were refused entry into the house. They jumped the first gate but found the second iron door impregnable. They left and Mr. Asante took advantage to escape to a friend's house. The soldiers returned in the morning and when they couldn't find their target, they arrested the wife who was than nursing her eight month's baby. They left the baby in the care of the 5 year old daughter of the Asantes. On hearing that his wife had been arrested, Mr. Asante gave himself up. The other members of the management were equally arrested.

Their offence? They were accused of self aggrandizement and enrichment. They were arraigned before the People Tribunal on charges of illegal acquisition of wealth. The Tribunal could not find any evidence to convict them, but the WDC Executives insisted they were guilty. The Tribunal came to the conclusion that the State had not lost any money. However, since they could not have sold those tires without benefiting financially from the transactions, they had to be jailed. Fred Asante was later released because he did not personally handle the sale of tires.

Okatakyie Akwasi Amankwaa Afrifah had appeared before an Asset Probing Committee made up of prominent citizens in the course and no adverse findings were made against him. Yet, Rawlings and his gang of murderers tied him to the stake and had him executed. Was it fair?
But when CHRAJ made adverse findings against some serving members of Rawlings and Mills regime, the then Attorney General, on Rawlings' instruction came out to say that there was not enough evidence to prosecute those ministers. My Brothers and sisters: That was not the only instance where Rawlings and his people had interfered in the administration of justice. In the mid eighties, the late W/O Salifu Amankwaa willfully tortured and murdered a middle age man. He was abducted from his room at Labadi and taken to the then “Holy Gardens” at Nkrumah Circle. Salifu Amankwaa appeared before the law Court and was sentenced to death. But what did Rawlings do? He, in his “Solomonian”. Set aside the verdict of the duly-constituted court. As if those were not enough, when the Special Investigative Panel indicted Kojo Tsikata, Amartey Kwei, Johnny Dzandu, Michael Senya and Samuel Amedeka [in absentia] for the murder of the three High Court Judges and the retired Army Officer, Rawlings once more came up with his executive fiat – There was no evidence to link both Tsikata and Akata-Pore with the murders.

Even the execution of the convicted persons hand a twist of mockery in it. Michael Senyah, a close friend and confidant of the Rawlingses, who had at one time lived in the boys' quarters of the latter, was not among those executed. Today he is walking down the streets of some foreign country a free person

Now these very people who, when the going was good for them had interfered in the affairs of the judiciary and made life very unbearable for the generality of the masses have turned round and are accusing the President of interfering in the dispensation of justice. They allege that President Kufuor had a hand in the imprisonment of Tsatsu Tsikata. But why? Everybody , unless any person with a mind for mischief, would agree with me that Tsatsu Tsikata had a fair trial and was convicted and sentenced by a court of competent jurisdiction. There are even opportunities for appeal which the man the NDC refers to as the whiz kid is pursuing, just like what Dan Abodakpi was pursuing before he was pardoned by the Presidency. Countrymen, do you sincerely believe that the NPP administration wanted to dismember the NDC as is being alleged? If it wanted to do that, why were some former Ministers who served under the NDC Administration and were accused of causing financial loss to the state be freed? The NPP Administration under President Kufuor is not vindictive like Rawlings who has vowed to expand Nsawam prisons so that top notches of the NPP and those who served in the Government could be imprisoned for thirty years and above. How do we place our collective destiny into the hands of such people who act arbitrary without recourse to the rule of law?
But we should not be surprised because when the He, who must be obeyed speaks, no one can contradict him.. It means that if Rawlings and Kufuor were to be in President Kufuor's shoes, which would have been the way, they would treat their political opponents.

Even with sufficient evidence, the NDC men are refusing to see reason and are crying foul. If that is their mindset, why should they refuse to accept the innocence of Chief Kufuor's son that the so called 'Hotel de waa waa is his own and not Kufuor's? Where is the evidence to the contrary? These people, led by the greatest bully and uncouth disposition, J.J.Rawlings are accusing the president of chopping money”waa waa”. Where is the evidence to prove that he has embezzled state money? Should we not be grateful that for the almost eight years he has used his own house as his official residence he has not collected a pesewa as rent on the property?

But are you surprised? For me, I am not because it is the stock in trade of members of the nefarious contraption. The party thrives on lies, fabrications, distortions, intimidation, confusion and violence. The party is out to destroy good people because they cannot stand the sight of virtuous and decent-minded people. Asiedu Nketiah and Raw3lings allege that after Kufuor had won the elections and visited Rawlings at the Castle, Kufuor's car could not start and Rawlings had to come to his rescue. This is the greatest lie of the century.

Please let us do some comparism. Between Rawlings and Kufuor, who is corrupt? Which of them has amassed wealth which cannot be accounted for? Rawlings himself confessed to having stolen a seat from some parked Air Force plane. He also stated that he was 'crediting' yoke garri before he became the Head of State. At the time he made these confessions, they were plusses for him for he wanted to align himself with the common people. But now, these bunch of nation wreckers want to rewrite history by stating that such assertions were never made at all by Rawlings.

Where did Rawlings get the money to educate all his children abroad including the one who attended Ghana International School in Accra, where fees are paid in foreign currency> What about all the exotic cars and horses? Buildings and mansions both at home and abroad? Why should Rawlings declare that he is incorruptible but Kufuor is corrupt? Why should we believe Rawlings but not Kufuor? What do Ghanaians have to say about the allegations by the late Wadas Nas, General Abacha's Minister for Special Duties that the late Head of State had doled out a whopping $6million to Rawlings to shore up the late dictator's waning popularity amongst fellow African and Commonwealth Leaders? At that time, Nigeria had become a pariah nation. Logically, I am inclined to believe that Rawlings indeed collected the money. The scenario: Nigeria was just about to be suspended from the Commonwealth and she needed the support of sister African countries. At the special summit, conveyed for that purpose, it was only Rawlings, the Ghanaian Leader who advocated for restraint because Nigeria's situation was different from the normal things that happen in other countries.

Any reasonable human being with the fear of God in him/her will agree with me that indeed, Rawlings collected the money from the late General Sanni Abacha. Let Rawlings make an open declaration of his accounts and tell us who and who own those buildings he is alleged to have constructed or built for him. These should include the exotic cars, motor cycles and many other things too numerous to mention. Then let the State document those properties in the alleged owners names so that in future, none of Rawlings' family members nor himself or his wife could lay claim to any of such properties.

When those of us who lived through the atrocities perpetrated by Rawlings and his brigands say that the NDC was borne out of violence, we know what we are saying. Ghanaians have not forgotten what those Azorka boys did to Frances Essiam and Obed Asamoah. Even their parliamentarians and other party executives who were tagged “Obed boys” did not escape the venom of their leader and founder whose kingdom has shrunk to that of only the founder. Albert Babgin, Haruna Iddrissu and Baba Jamal easily come to mind. Why were they not at the scene of the swearing in ceremony of the new Executives under Kwabena Agyei? They took the tactical decision not to be present to save their skin. But nobody contradicts Rawlings and get away with it. The opportunity to deal with Babgin came when at the instigation of their master, the hawks in the party moved to relieve him of his position as Minority leader, but as fate will have it, his job was saved for him.

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