Editorial: The Illogical Reasoning Of Lying Murders

The "KUME PREKO" march to protest against the harsh effects of the Valued Added Tax on Ghanaians has come and gone. It now belongs to history.
But the statement issued by the Minister of the Interior, Col. Osei Wusu (rtd.) should not be allowed to pass without any comments from right-thinking citizens of mother Ghana.
To put it bluntly, the statement could only come from a brain that is grossly incapable of sound reasoning or making simple deductions from events.
On the other hand, it could be well taken to be coming from a person who thinks Ghanaians are so stupid and idiotic that they cannot see through the hollowness of the attempts to escape blame.
The GHANAIANS CHRONICLE would like to hold the Minister for Interior responsible for the deaths and injuries sustained during the otherwise peaceful march.
The Minister's statement attributed the casualties to the clash between the Alliance for Change demonstrators and members of the "ACDRs who had formed a human shield around the Makola Market".
Let Col. Osei-Wusu tell the whole nation: which body or organisation is responsible for such national security assignments? Is it the security forces or the ACDRs that should be deployed to undertake such assignments.
Peace-keeping and security assignments, whether internal or external, are sensitive tasks that should not be left in the hands of amateurs. Rather, they should be handled by personnel specially trained - physically and psychologically - to handle such delicate assignments and the lethal weapons that must out of necessity be used on such occasions.
Why the Minister, a retired Colonel from the Ghana Army decided to bypass the police, the army, fire service, and even prisons service personnel and ask the ACDRs to handle weapons at such dangerous times defies understanding.
It is not the ACDRs lack of training alone that should have disqualified them from undertaking such an assignment. The Minster should have considered their history of blind devotion to President Rawlings and their notoriety for disrupting similar demonstrations, especially by elements perceived as opposed to the government.
By allowing this group, noted for their lunatic attachment and loyalty to Rawlings to place themselves in the paths of the obviously enraged demonstrators, what else did Col. Osei-Wusu expect to happen? Exchanges of fraternal greetings?
No reasonable person could have expected anything short of what happened, given the enabling climate that had been created by the outfit of Colonel Osei-Wusu.
It would only amount to adding brazen insults to our wounds and broken hearts if Col. Osei-Wusu continues to issue such senseless explanations.
We cannot comment on the shameless display of state- sponsored thuggery on that fateful Thursday without mentioning the role of characters like E. T. Mensah and Said Sinare, who were spotted in several parts of the city distributing cash and T-shirts to some youths to disrupt the demonstration. The dead and the wounded came from both sides of the opposing forces. But the march would have ended peacefully with nobody receiving even a bruise if these evil-minded characters had not set their fiendish plans in motion.
After having observed the fruits of their labour, they can now strike their chests and pat one another on their backs for having armed one set of Ghanaians and set them against another set who were just exercising their constitutional rights.
An Akan proverb says a drunken cock is often oblivious of the existence of a hawk. When people are in power and have the state coercive apparatus behind them, they usually think nothings is beyond them.
Those who committed atrocities and crimes against humanity in Auschwitz were made to face the law late at Nuremberg.
Events in Ethiopia and Malawi should open the eyes of those who think today they are on top of the world so they can commit the worst of crimes and get away with it.
THE CHRONICLE is appealing to Ghanaians to remain calm in the face of these gruesome deed by some security agents and organisations sympathetic to the government.
We would also want to remind the government about its ultimate responsibility to maintain law and order in the country.
Currently, the image of Ghana abroad is that of an island of peace within a sub-region engulfed in internal conflagrations.
In fact, Resident Rawlings recent invitation to America was in recognition of his efforts at ensuring peace not only in Liberia, but also throughout the sub-region.
It would, therefore, be ironical if Ghana is perceived as not different from the other countries in the sub-region in as far as violence is concerned.
Finally, the CHRONICLE wishes the bereaved families condolences.