Nana Addo's “all die be die” mantra reminds me of a story my father told me. He said a young man sent a woman home from the city to introduce to his parents as his wife. The woman upon seeing her mother-in-law told his husband that the mother is a witch and said she'll only marry the man if he kills the mother. The young man, blinded by love killed the mother. The woman then told him if he could kill the mother simply because he wants to marry her, then he can equally kill her if he wants to marry another woman who puts before him the same condition. The woman therefore concluded that she'll not marry the young man again.
The relevance of this story is that, if Nana Addo wants to be president and therefore called on his followers to “clear” anything that'll stop him from becoming a president, then may those who he called upon to do so be warned that, he can equally call upon others to “clear” them so he can occupy some other position in the future.
All die be die! Life is tasty! These statements were made by people from two different fames: a politician and a musician. Maybe that is why you are not able to draw a direct relationship between the two statements. But when I listen to Keche's life is tasty song; Nana Addo's all die be die mantra is what comes to my mind. If “life is tasty”, why should “all die be die”? I'm sure Keche will be the last person to believe that “all die be die” if not you!
The unfortunate thing was that, civil society organizations and the church were quite over this unguided statement by the second time flagbearer of the NPP. The reason that informed their decision not to condemn this statement, but rallied behind the NPP in their recent attempt to stampede the creation of the 45 new constituencies is best known to them. By their deeds, Ghanaians shall judge them!
Undoubtedly, your traits will manifest in your deeds! It is now clear to me why Nana Addo as a Foreign Affairs Minister, did very little to bring honour to the 44 also citizens of the land who were killed in cold blood in the Gambia. All die be die “ampaa”! Shamefully enough, the likes of Ursula Owusu, Francess Esiam and Nana Akomea have defended this unthinkable statement. The most recent being the chairman of the NPP: Jake Obetsebi Lamptey.
Ghanaians must take note of this blood socking attitude of members of the NPP. As Ghana is struggling to forget about the “all die be die” mantra, Kennedy Agyapong, a supposed honourable came in, calling of some tribes to eliminate members of other tribes simply because the NPP must win this year's presidential election at all cost.
Despite all that his party supporters did to show solidarity for his uncivil statement from the day of his arrest to the day of his realized, Kennedy Agyapong was not satisfied. Maybe he expected his cronies in the NPP to have done what those junior army officers who realized one of their colleagues from custody at the dawn prior to his final appearance before the General Court Martial that was trying him for his involvement in an abortive coup on May 15, 1979.
Boiling with the anger of his claimed unsatisfactory support from his party men and women during his detention, he revealed to Ghanaians how he, on the advice of the then Defense Minister, Kan Dapaah employed over ten hundred throngs to defend the interest of the NPP during the 2008 elections that brought the NDC into power. Who knows what these throngs did? Had it not been God, Kennedy Agyapong and the NPP would have subverted the will of the people of Ghana. Having done this, members of the NPP still have the morality to tell Ghanaians that, the NDC won the 2008 presidential election with just some forty hundred votes. Hypocrisy at its peak!
The throngs failed us, what next? I'm sure this was the question the NPP bigwigs asked among themselves and the legal brains among them responded: the court! Let us stop the EC from declaring the elections. So Atta Kyea, Mac Manu and co headed for the court. I remembered vividly the comments of Raymond Atuguba on Metro TV on this issue: “everything about the case is wrong. They went to the wrong court and the court sat on the wrong day” he said. Didn't Atta Kyea and others also planed killing and sending some dead bod(ies) to some part(s) of the Volta Region during the election period? Why did the NPP employ all these unthinkable strategies in their attempt to retain power in 2008 if they actually respect Ghanaians and the peace we enjoy in this country? Is this a party to vote for?
Today, that same team is crisscrossing this country with a “hope restoration message”. Which hope are they seeking our mandate to restore? Is it the “hope” to stop the EC from declaring elections or to stop them from creating new constituencies? Or it is the “hope” to kill members of some tribes? Or maybe it is the “hope” to continue buying state bungalows at “dongomi” prices. These are selfish, nation wrecking and above all, democracy killing “hopes” that Ghanaians are certainly not interested in.
It is wrong to justify a wrong deed with another wrong deed but if people who superintend over wrong deeds launch attack over the wrong deeds of others in an attempt to criminalized them, then it is imperative to remind such people of their pass.
Edwin Koge
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