The Political Crabs

 
The news that thieves have raided the National Secretariat of the “One District, One factory (IDIF) programme, one of the popular flagship initiatives of the administration of President Akufo-Addo, should not surprise anybody.

In our part of the world, incompetent politicians continue to be a thorn in the flesh of competent and visionary political leaders, who they consider as a threat to their consuming desire to be in power at all costs.

Thus, they continue to behave liked the proverbial crabs in a basket. Each makes an attempt to climb to the top, but others relentlessly continue to pull it down in their attempt to climb and reach the top.

It was recently reported that thieves ransacked the IDIF office at Cantoments in Accra at dawn on Wednesday, November 7, 2018, taking away some vital documents and equipment such as laptops, desktops and televisions sets.

A senior security officer was reported to have suspected that the raid had political colours, strongly believing that the thieves might have been sent by political opponents of the administration of President Akufo-Addo to cart away vital documents, in order to steal ideas for their own use.

While this motive could be true, The Chronicle has the nagging feeling that the raid was executed simply out of mischief tinged with jealousy, and that it was meant to derail this laudable programme which will ultimately, to some extent, solve the country's unemployment problem which has, for a long time, been plaguing the country.

Here is a government that has gone far beyond the slow pace of the status quo type of development by introducing human-faced policies, programmes and numerous initiatives.

These include the “One District, One factory” (1D1F), “Free Senior High School”,  “One Village, One dam”, “Planting  for Food and Jobs”, Nation Builders Corps (NABCO), and restoration of  allowances of trainee teachers and nurses etc.

All these and other innovations are capable of winning votes for President Akufo-Addo during elections, and even after the end of his mandate, the New Patriotic Party will continue to be popular with the now discerning Ghanaian voters, as they would not like to vote another party into power for the fact of that party messing up with some of Akufo-Addo's rewarding policies, especially, the Free Senior High School programme.

The Chronicle observes that some of these political parties, very hungry for power, will not leave any stone unturned to find ways and means to disrupt the systematic approach by the current administration to solve the country's problems.

While we await the outcome of investigations into the raid of the offices of the 1D1F at Cantonments in Accra, The Chronicle urges Ghanaians not to succumb to panic.

We further implore the government to be focused on its core policies and programmes to bring the country to the level of modern and developed nations, much to the shame of these political crabs.