Somebody is misleading, deceiving and misinforming the President. It seems to me the President is not briefed properly on certain issues.
That is why he looks like a confused Kung Fu fighter. Ghanaians should take off their political sunglasses and move in sympathy with the good old professor who has found himself among wolfs in sheep’s skin.
I am beginning to understand ex-President Rawlings when he told us that the President has appointed mediocre ministers and some doubtful characters
The scenario is embarrassing and a little bit disgraceful. The Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) had notified the police of their intention to embark on a demonstration.
The law demands so, and so as law-abiding citizens they made sure the right thing was done.
The police replied the group indicating that because of an impending decongesting exercise in the Central Business District of Accra and the expected arrival of President Barak Obama of the US, the demonstration should be suspended.
This excuse did not go down well with the AFAG which threatened to demonstrate whether the police liked it or not.
Quickly, the Attorney General’s office went to court and obtained an interlocutory injunction, banning the group from going on with their threat.
The AFAG obliged and matters seemed dead. After all, how dare they disobey the court?
The AFAG is made up of some youthful and crack lawyers who know their left from right and for that matter, they will never commit an act that will make them look like unruly and shortsighted men and women.
Then out of the blue came the presidential fiat to the Inspector General of Police (IGP). “Allow anyone who wants to demonstrate to do so and give them adequate police protection to do so”. And the President is supposed to have known better since he is a professor of law!
He has gone through the mills as his name implies, having been the Vice President of this country who also once chaired the Police Council. The man also knows that there are three arms of government which by law act independently with their powers which can not be trampled upon by any Jupiter.
The IGP has served notice that he will not comply with the Presidential Fiat. That means the IGP knows better than the President when it comes to state security and the rule of law.
The questions on the lips of the good people of this country are as follows: If the AFAG disobeyed the court and went ahead to demonstrate, what message would they be sending to the people of this country? If during the demonstration, the police loses control of the crowd and something nasty happens, who will carry the blame on his or her shoulders?
Is the President telling us that he is so powerful that he could even instruct us when and how we should sleep with our wives? Was the President briefed by his Attorney General on the Interlocutory Injunction that was slapped on AFAG?
Is our President fishing for cheap popularity or just trying to be a “good guy”? Good Lord, there are more questions than answers.
And did I hear ex-President Rawlings well? That Mills should expedite action on the spate of armed robbery else the NDC will lose the 2012 general elections? That also constitutes a fiat issued by the ex-President to the sitting President.
He even went further to say the escalation of armed robbery cases could be attributed to opposition politicians. When he made that unfortunate statement that he knew some fifteen cabinet ministers in the Kufuor regime who murdered the thirty-five women in Accra, people did not take him seriously.
But seriously, this man should not think that we easily forget things in this country. Ghanaians are good historians and will always refer to history.
The truth is that it was Rawlings who introduced armed robbery in this country. When he illegally took up arms and robbed the late President Hilla Limann of the presidency, he committed an armed robbery.
He is also the one who made sure people who were not members of the security forces got arms to defend his wish-to-be-forgotten revolutions.
In the wake of the 1981 revolution, Rawlings formed the People’s Militia, and the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution.
These men and women were armed to the teeth with AK 47 assault riffles and pistols to cow down the populace. For eleven years, the gun-totting defenders of the revolution were accountable to no other person but Jeremiah John Rawlings, the Rambo.
During those mad days, District Secretaries, Regional Secretaries and government functionaries were armed. In 1992 when this country was ushered into a new era of democratic dispensation, these guns were not returned.
Undoubtedly, these are the guns being used by the armed robbers to terrorize the people of this country. In the cause of the revolution, counter coups were also staged and armories were broken into.
Arms stolen were never retrieved. What do you think these arms are being used for? Surely they are not used to hunt rats. And so if today, Mills who used the issue of armed robbery as a campaign tool is struggling to come to terms with the menace, Rawlings should take up the blame and stop shouting from the rooftop as if he knows nothing about it.
On a second thought, I think it serves Mills right if the ex-President is asking him to check the armed robbery menace. After all, was it not then Candidate Mills who told Ghanaians that if voted into power, he would make sure the issue of armed robbery would be a thing of the past? Now the soap and water in a bucket have been put in front of him.
Let him bath for us to see. The truth is that the house is on fire and Rawlings is sitting around trying to decide whether it was started by a lighter or a match. Even with guns, Rawlings could not curb armed robbery. How can Mills do it with his feeble hands?
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