Serious joke

The Weekly Insight in its editorial column says one cannot help laughing at the recent demonstration organised at the behest of the First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, to protest against the serial killings of women in Accra.

The paper notes that all those who should take action to unravel the killings, took part in the demonstration to pressure the "authorities" into taking action. It says those who followed Nana Konadu into the streets, included the Inspector- General of Police, the Deputy Minister of the Interior and some Members of Parliament.

The Weekly Insight says clearly, these are the "authorities", who needed to be pressured into taking action to resolve the murders but they were out in the streets demonstrating against themselves. The paper says that although the organisers claimed that the demonstration was to protest the murders, Nana Konadu appealed to disagree with them, when she said that "only seven of the murders have not been resolved".

She is reported as even going to the extent that the government could not find money to set aside as an incentive to informers in the attempt to unravel the murders.

According to the paper, the demonstration was nothing more than a public relations gimmick calculated to turn the heat off the NDC and its security apparatus.