Crucifying the Delta Force is Not the Right Solution - NPP

Is it not said, when someone takes you to see life, you do not take the person to see death? This simply explains as, if someone does something good to you, you do not reciprocate the person with evil. In case you are so ungrateful to have the difficulty of repaying their kindness, it is absolutely morally not right to deliberately cause them miseries.

From the displayed attitude by some NPP top men and women in their unrestrained condemnations of the Delta Force culprits who are remorseful for their thoughtless action of chucking the newly-appointed Ashanti Regional National Security Co-ordinator out of his office, I find it contrary to the wise admonition as given above.

Was Judas Iscariot not the only and very one among the twelve disciples who ate from the same bowl with Jesus Christ yet, he was the one who betrayed him? Were they not the very ones who said, Hallelujah to Jesus Christ the same ones who later shouted crucify him? All that I mean to tell Ghanaians, especially His Excellency the President, is that it is not everyone closer to him or in his government that shares his aspirations and concerns for Ghana and Ghanaians. If it were not so, Hon. Albert Kan Dapaa, the Minister for National Security, would have been very thoughtful and cautious when dealing with the Delta Force when they made the mistake of forcing the Regional National Security Co-ordinator out of his office.

By rather being thoughtless to act in an unprofessional machismo manner, threatening, and arranging, to imprison the Delta Force culprits, the case has now self-escalated to the international level with the United Nations being knowledgeable about it and voicing their concerns.

The NDC, led by that emaciated Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, alias General Mosquito, a corrupt individual who prided himself in NDC having a well-catered-for, and heavily-armed, NDC’s private Special Forces to protect the interests of the NDC during Election 2012, has got the shameless nerves to come out publicly to condemn the NPP government in such an immeasurable term following the actions of the Delta Force.

Does the NDC not have the Azorka Boys, Special Forces and the Montie trio bandits (Salifu Maase alias Mugabe, Godwin Gunn and Alistair Nelson) who threatened on air to murder some Supreme Court Judges and also, get a named person to rape the Chief Justice, Mrs Theodora Georgina Wood if need be? However, Asiedu Nketiah, another corrupt person who has immensely enriched himself owing to the entire nature of the corrupt administration by former President John Dramani Mahama, says the crime by the Montie trio, murderers in the making, pales to nothing compared to the Delta Force chasing out one Agyei from his office and storming a courtroom.

Do you for any reason remove your canine teeth, especially when you happen to be a lion or a carnivore? Canine teeth are used for tearing meat/flesh and once removed; the likelihood of the lion starving to death cannot be overestimated. Subsequently, the Akans have a saying, “Obi ntu nese bofo3”. You do not get rid of what helps you immensely towards your survival.

Are the NPP in their current hullabaloo over the Delta Force incident which is leading into polarization within the party not acting in contravention of that wise saying?

Four years will soon come and hopefully, the NPP will need some, or look forward to having some, nonentities, of the types of the Delta Force, Rambo Force and Tamale Bull Dogs to help protect ballot boxes for them to win re-election. This is where I am greatly worried for these young strong men may turn round to tell us, “Once bitten, twice shy”. They may have learnt a bitter lesson to no longer allowed themselves to be used and dumped as some Zongo youth are claiming following how the Delta Force culprits have been, or are being, treated by some NPP gurus, Government Ministers, MPs and most especially, by Hon. Albert Kan Dapaa, the Minister for National Security.

Combination of common sense, strategic thinking and successful implementation of strategies, makes a political party win elections and be able to implement her policies successfully. In 1 Corinthians 10:23, it says, "I have the right to do anything," you say--but not everything is beneficial. "I have the right to do anything"--but not everything is constructive”.

Yes, Hon. Albert Kan Dapaa, a non security expert but handling issues pertaining to national security with the right to do as he wants when he wants on advice by some con men and women or con security experts, has done what is not edifying or constructive according to 1 Corinthians 10:23.

When the Israelites cried unto God to give them a King, He gave them Saul after directing Samuel to anoint him a King. However, when Saul went against God’s instructions as in 1 Samuel 15:1-35 (Saul's refusal to totally annihilate the Amalekites costs him his kingdom. It is ….), God denounced him. God actually has given Nana Akufo Addo to us to come to liberate Ghanaians from socio-economic destruction visited upon them by the corruption of former President Mahama and his NDC-led government and party. He has God’s support and favour concluding from how Ghanaians voted massively for him and how God endowed certain individuals with wisdom, intelligence and boldness to outwit the NDC to win the election for Nana Akufo Addo and the NPP despite all the powerful rigging machines and collusions set in place by the NDC which deceptively made them overly self-confident to win the election hands down.

Nonetheless, care must be taken in order not to fall into the same trap as did King Saul. Again, beware of the likes of Hon. Albert Kan Dapaa who never supported the party in her great times of need but has landed a lucrative position he seems to be abusing to bring the party down.

I shall blame Hon. Albert Kan Dapaa more than I will blame the Delta Force for his failure to resolve the problem professionally before it assumed its current hyperbolic criminality.

My earnest prayer is to see His Excellency the President able to deliver on his numerous promises to make his supporters of whom I am a principal, proud.

All is not lost. There is still hope to get things right so Ghanaians, please bear with the President.

Lest I forget, did the Delta Force indeed play a decisive role to guarantee the NPP and Nana Akufo Addo a massive win in the Ashanti region? If they did, is their current treatment the reward the NPP top men and women are paying them? Are we not removing our canine tooth/teeth?

Rockson Adofo
(Written on Sunday, 15 April 2017)