Since the 2024 general elections in Ghana, I have weaned myself from social media, blocked my mind to any news having to do with Ghana. This is all because nothing comforting but heartrending news unfolds in Ghana on a near daily basis.

One will only hear of NDC fanatics raiding one place or another, chasing out workers and replacing them with their own, all in the name of “our party is in power”.

If these guys are not audaciously illegally sacking workers, they are ransacking food warehouses or some storage areas of some sort.

It made me sick and tired hence my resolution to do away with anything having to do with Ghana, especially the news. However, upon hearing the arrest, imprisonment, and court appearances of Mr Kwame Baffoe aka Abronye, the NPP Bono Regional Chairman, I visited the Ghana news online in a quest to find out exactly the cause of his predicament.

Notwithstanding scouring as I had, I have until the publication of this article not come across the actual reasons for his arrest and imprisonment. I can only briefly read about him allegedly insulting the current Inspector General of Police.

His insults are deemed political and constitute an immense national security breach, the police say. Woah!

I have also read and keep reading that someone in 2022 went on a similar insulting and threatening tangent, bordering on causing mayhem in Ghana if a particular political party lost then 2024 pending general elections, hence was arrested and prosecuted on orders by IGP Dr George Akuffo- Dampare. The person is said to have been sentenced to four years imprisonment with hard labour hence Abronye must face the same fate.

I have no qualms about the police or the government trying to quell political insults, endangerment, and breaches of national security by certain Ghanaians who by their myopic reasoning feel insulated against arrest, however, to do so discriminatorily is damn abhorrent to me.

Nobody in Ghana in my estimation and practical observation has insulted many people and institutions in the country than that notorious Kevin Ekow Taylor, yet he is the worshipped tin god of the NDC, assigned special security protection by the NDC government and party. Shame on them!

Anyway, Abronye must suffer the consequences of his actions if indeed, he has caused national security breaches that have never occurred in the history of Ghana.

Abronye, again cocked up big time by writing to some foreign embassies in Ghana seeking political asylum. He should have physically run to the premises of any such embassy to seek political asylum when he sensed his life being in imminent danger. That is the best thing to do and if he had, the embassy would not eject him until his application had been studied.

Is he a political prisoner or a criminal deserving arrest and imprisonment?

Until I become familiar with the details of his arrest, I will rest my case without wading into uncharted dangerous waters to avoid ending up facing the wrath of both the NDC government and the Ghana police.

I shall suggest to the friends and family members of Abronye who have deeper understanding of his case to convey their concerns to the recognised international bodies and organisations they know of, soliciting their intervention to ensure Abronye gets a fair trial.