Mills’ Gov’t Resorts To Witch Hunting

By Newman Dotse

President John Evans Atta Mills’ bunch of “call goat a cow and a mosquito an airplane,” officials lack the aptitude to manage and move Ghana’s economy forward to alleviate the poverty currently tormenting the Country.

Instead of the officials of this government solving the bread and butter issue of poor Ghanaians, they have decided to resort to witch hunting those who criticize the lackadaisical attitude of this government towards poverty alleviation.

It is time for this poor administration, weak leadership, enemy of truth, autocratic, dictatorial and tyrannical government to bid Ghanaians farewell because it has failed the youth of this country dearly.

Today, this government officials have developed the tactics of using the state security to shield the itchy hand of corrupt officials who are now building mansions everywhere in the country. Even those who never had any work experience before they became DCEs and Ministers now own three to four houses to the detriment of the poor in society.

If they know their hands are clean enough, why are they unleashing the Police and the BNI who are currently tainted with the NDC colours on innocent whistle blowers? If this government officials feel that Owusu Bempa’s statement is false, why can’t they advice the First Lady to go to court for redress instead of using the state security to intimidate him? Why are the police and the BNI detaining the whistle blower when worse statements were made against some members of the opposition by some newspapers of which no arrest were made to ascertain the veracity of those statements?

Is the BNI saying that Mrs. Naadu Mills, the First Lady, is better than the rest of Ghanaians? Who says she is innocent of the $5 million bribery allegation leveled against her? EOCO must release the full report on the Woyome’s judgment debt saga for Ghanaians to know the beneficiaries, instead of the half report that was submitted earlier.

Harassing critics of this weak government would not change corruption perception hovering around this government like the way vultures hover around carcasses.

The childish behavior that has eaten deep into the top hierarchy of the NDC government has made the security apparatus of the state to go berserk, thus biting anything on site.

In Ghana today, one dare not criticize wrong doing because if you do, government officials would certainly send the state security officers to attack and intimidate you, in a desperate attempt to make one keep quiet over the corruption in government.

How on earth could a whistle blower be detained in the Police cells for two days all in the name of demanding documentary evidence from him? How can he make such evidence available while in police detention, if indeed there is any?

Another classic example of indiscipline in the state security was the happenings at the Kotoka International Airport, the country’s international airport during the arrival of the President from the US, where Police personnel were engaged in a free-for-all fight with airport security.
The Police, on that fateful day, resolved to effect arrest of one of the airport security officials who was reported to have misconduct himself during President Mills’ arrival but other airport security officials allegedly resisted the arrest, thus resulting in a nasty brawl. Something that could have been avoided should the Police resort to dialogue instead of applying force.

Source: The Citizen Newspaper (thecitizen.news@yahoo.com) +233 27 731 4655