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25.03.2010 Feature Article

ARE HOOLIGANS NOW RULING GHANA?

ARE HOOLIGANS NOW RULING GHANA?
25.03.2010 LISTEN

I am sometimes flabbergasted to hear or see hooligans have their way so easily when rules and laws exist. Recent happenings within the country is gradually pointing to the fact that hooligans, gangsters, mobs etc now don't only have their say but they also have their way so easily thus performing their acts of hooliganism in the full glare of our Police officers.

For sometime now precisely since the NDC party came into office, hooligans who always hide under the under the umbrella name “NDC youth” have attacked various people for various ridiculous reasons just because they think that their party is in government. Initially some of us thought that it was going to stop especially some months after the transition. But little did we know that the era of hooligans ruling us was just about to start. Many are the awful incidents that have taken place to the notice of our Police officers yet nothing has being done till now. Some of the incidents perpetuated by the NDC hooligans include the seizure of public places of convenience or “toilets”, sacking NYEP officers from their post, threatening DCE's who are refusing to give them jobs or listen to their weird calls, organizing mobs to attack those who speak against their leaders and many others. And what is so appalling is that one of these hooligans by the nickname “Untouchable” has the guts to go on air issuing threats to people as if the laws of the land were in his pocket.

However the NDC hooligans on the 25th March, 2010 decided to take their hooliganism to a different level when they locked up their party headquarters insisting that until one Carl Wilson was sacked from his office as the Chairman of Confiscated Vehicle Allocation Committee they were not going to allow their party officers to work. Some few hours after this threat Carl Wilson was sacked hence I ask; these hooligans are also calling for the “head” of Betty Mould Iddrisu our Attorney General and would the government/President listen to their lousy voice or is waiting for them to launch an attack on may be the castle or the Attorney General's office before their wish will be granted? Although the government may come out to deny that the actions of their hooligans has nothing to do with the dismissal of Carl Wilson, I know that it has, because many people had complained about the conduct of Carl Wilson since last year yet nothing had being done to him till now so why now? Is it not obvious that the voices of the hooligans are more melodious to the government than the ordinary Ghanaians? Anyway so it now pays to be a hooligan by kind courtesy of the NDC government.

In all of this, it is sad to know that our Police officers continue to behave like spectators who seem not to care about these acts of lawlessness and the least said about the Ghana Police for now the better. But the question is for how long will these hooligans be allowed to have their way just because they're NDC activists? Anyway for now, it seems that hooligans are ruling Ghana and the earlier we all stand up against their acts of lawlessness the better for us all.

Obibinii Paa-Kwasi
The Chalant “Atiglinyi”
[email protected]

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