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21.09.2011 Feature Article

Law of the Jungle – Macho men and Foot Soldiers

Law of the Jungle – Macho men and Foot Soldiers
21.09.2011 LISTEN

If today, in our dear country, macho men are parading our streets and flouting our laws with impunity, it is because of a failure of leadership. Of course I do not expect our president to comment. He is busy - praying in the castle for divine intervention. Ebeye yie! God will provide.

If today, young men are vandalizing our towns and cities, expecting the government to come round to distribute bags of cash, merely because they happen to be card-bearing members of the ruling party, it is because they can see, that people they campaigned for to get into power have become millionaires overnight. Our democracy will never grow, until the entire mentality, that politics is a money-making venture has been completely eradicated from our consciousness.

If today, our policemen stare in despair with no teeth to bite, no equipment to deploy, no motivation to fall back on as rogues go on the rampage, it is because, our ruling party is inherently thuggish and so rogues determine the terms of our hallowed existence. Our society will never grow, until we have a well-equipped independent police force capable of maintaining law and order in an environment where no one, least of all macho men and party foot soldiers, is above the law.

If today, in Ghana, a few thugs can forcibly prevent an individual from occupying premises that they have rightfully acquired to engage in a public meeting and all the police can do is “negotiate” with these rogues, then the law of the jungle reigns, where a man is elevated to a status of an untouchable merely on account of a few padded muscles acquired through sweaty hours of idling in gyms while the rest of us go to work.

Papa Appiah
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