By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Garden City, New York
Feb. 4, 2016
E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net

It is very ironic for key NDC operatives like Mr. Kofi Adams to take a self-righteous stand on the question of President Mahama’s patently unwise decision to accede to the resettlement of the two Saudi-born Yemeni “graduates” of the Guantanamo Bay Maximum Security Prison. What Mr. Mahama did has put all Ghanaians in harm’s way. And so it is nothing short of the downright preposterous for the National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress to call for Bishop Joseph Osei-Bonsu, the President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops Conference, to apologize to the very people for whose safety Bishop Osei-Bonsu constructively castigated the President (See “‘Rev. Osei-Bonsu Must Seek Forgiveness Over Gitmo Two Comments’” Starrfmonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 1/25/16).

It is also ironic on the part of Mr. Adams because like President Mahama, the political legitimacy of the NDC National Organizer directly hinges on the morally scandalous Indemnity Clause that was inserted into Ghana’s 1992 Republican Constitution. I also seriously doubt that when the former Rawlings water-boy mentions the name of Divine Providence, or God, that Mr. Adams is referring to the same Supreme Deity that many a devout Ghanaian Christian confesses or professes to worship. Indeed, when Bishop Osei-Bonsu counsels President Mahama to “balance compassion with common sense,” he may be thinking about the inexcusable fact that there are hundreds of bona fide Ghanaian citizens who have been incarcerated without trial in the country for decades now.

Needless to say, if any group of humans should be reckoned to be deserving of the sort of “Christian Compassion” that the former NDC-MP from Gonja-West is talking about, it is definitely these Ghanaians who have yet to be afforded their proverbial inalienable right to be arraigned and duly tried before a legitimately constituted court of the land. Not surprisingly, Indemnity Clause-protected certified terrorists like Messrs. Amaliba and Adams, as well as their brazen collaborators among the top-hierarchy of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), such as Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, would have Ghanaians believe that the Gitmo Two are more deserving of justice merely because they had been taken prisoner on the killing fields of Afghanistan and Pakistan by the United States, whose leadership the key operatives of the ruling National Democratic Congress, beginning with Chairman Jerry John Rawlings, have been widely known to hate with a vengeance.

Rather than further aggravate an already volatile situation, what NDC hacks like Messrs. Anyidoho, Adams, Asiedu-Nketia and Amaliba ought to doing presently is to be explaining precisely why they think President Mahama ought to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for legitimizing the Arabo-Islamist terrorist conduct in Ghana. Indeed, even as I write, several Yemeni nationals are reported to have been arrested in Accra, Ghana’s capital, and charged with unlawful entry into the country. It constitutes the height of criminality for anybody to suppose that irreparably impairing the security of Ghanaians is the most godly foreign policy measure ever implemented by any postcolonial Ghanaian government.

If anybody needs to seek forgiveness from Divine Providence, it definitely is the former Shit-Bomber and his associates, minions and hangers-on. We need to also hope and pray that a critical mass of terror-minded Yemenis does not mushroom around the presence of Messrs. Bin-Atef and Al-Dhuby in the country. One can easily fathom what the consequences would be by simply looking at the present political climate in Yemen.

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