Worrying trends that must be checked
When Ghana embraced constitutional rule in 1993, we automatically entered into a democratization contract that should reflect in the respect of individual freedoms and to be secured by legitimized rights and liberties which are generally protected by a constitution. It is, therefore, instructive that as stakeholders in this democratic enterprise we must strictly adhere to its tenets of respecting due process. We are really disturbed by the wanton disregard for laid down procedures by the youth in seeking redress.
With the inception of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government since 2009, worrying signals of party youth circumventing laid down procedure or taking the law into their own hands to demand their pound of flesh by bastardizing state institutions and public properties.
What started with the seizure of cars, toilets and lorry stations by NDC hooligans to announce that their government was now in power, has now transcended into NDC youth groups expressing their anger against their own government officials in a manner that flies in the face of due process.
To us at The Chronicle, the height of this uncontrolled madness reached its apogee when irate youth of the NDC in Yendi smashed the windscreen of the Constituency Chairman's vehicle and declared the Yendi Municipal Chief Executive, Mr. Hudu Welvis as unwanted in the area where he is supposed to administer. They have also threatened to kill the MCE, as a result of which he is at the moment seeking refuge in Tamale.
The mother of all the reckless disregard for due process was recorded when some NDC youth activists invaded the party headquarters where they succeeded in locking out party executives who had reported for work, demanding the dismissal of Mr. Carl Wilson, the former Chairman of Confiscated Vehicle Allocation Committee.
The naked display of thuggery at NDC district offices and then to the regional offices, has now come full circle as it has now reached the party headquarters in Accra. With the way the brazen show of brute force by the NDC youth activists is going, we do not hope the next place that they might want to desecrate would be the Castle itself.
The NDC as a party and government must make their position on this issue known and they must nip this canker and cancer in the bud, before it festers to engulf us all.
The irresponsible parent who allows the child to bring home eggs laid by snakes, should bear in mind that when the eggs hatch and later develop into snakes, both the parent and the child will be attacked by the snake. A word to the wise…