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Opinions of Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Columnist: Sarpong, Justice

Mills Should Cause The Arrest Of Rawlings

By: Sarpong, Justice

President Mills should summon all the courage he has left in him and arrest the reprobate son of a demimonde called Rawlings, else he will wake up one morning and find out he has no country to preside over. We do not want to hear again his knee jerk faint hearted tantrums that he often throws into the air that the political opposition is undermining his government when in real fact it is nobody but Togbe Awoklaso Rawlings that is undermining him. Astute political observers are flabbergasted by the ease and quickness of how Rawlings, who does not answer to parliament nor the president, could summon his National Security Advisor, General Nunoo-Mensah, Gbevlo-Lartey, National Security Coordinator, and one Emmanuel Amedeka, head of the Jubilee House security to the new Presidential offices at the Jubilee house to a meeting concerning the arrest of four soldiers, namely Tahiru Adams, Jonathan Abi, aka Joe and Atta Kakra also known as Kariyansu, twoof whom are rumored to have been amongst his security detail during his reign as president, to exact and extract by any means necessary a “confession”  that will link them to the Kufour NPP administration and to the murder of Roko Frimpong, a former Ghana Commercial Bank executive.

It should not come as a surprise why Rawlings would want to put a distance between himself and the murderers that killed Roko Frimpong; we have seen that movie before, it has an eerie resemblance to the adoption and murder of the four Supreme Court Judges and retired soldier. In both cases the murderers came from his security detail so his vested interest here must be questioned. His behavior must be understood as a preemptive strike to deflect attention from himself and coach the suspects to pin it on Kufour.

This narcissist schadenfreude wings must be clipped if our country is to enjoy our acclaimed international image as an oasis of peaceful democratic country in a region where the brutal usurping of powers by despots clothed in military fatigues are very common. Rawlings thought Mills was going to be his vassal and a conduit through which he can unleash his brutal PNDC days bellicose, lurid, illogical and inane stupidity on Ghanaians and settle political scores with Kufour's NPP administration.

The incessant partisan garbage Rawlings used to heap on President Kufour, he still does, has now been turned on his own acolyte, President Mills, because he Mills is not carrying out his orders. The “poodle” would not play anymore and that kind of irritates Rawlings, hence all the name callings he has been heaping on the Mills administration in recent times. Kwasea ani te’a na agorɔ agu. Agya Atta sɛ, onyɛ abɔfra ɛmma Rawlings biamu. Wabrɛ ne attɛm didie ne abɔdini keka!!! In the end if things go wrong it is him that would face the electorate, not he Rawlings.

Some of us have observed that, this Mills NDC administration is struggling and grappling to get its hands on the myriad of problems that confront the country. It has not been easy; we understand that and needs the space and time to tame the turbulent economic winds blowing over Ghana. The last he can afford is Rawlings breathing down heavily on his neck. He Rawlings is not the president and should not be allowed to hold meetings at the seat of power with security capos; that is tantamount to seditious act and should be condemned by all peace loving Ghanaians. Rawlings is not the only 'intelligent' person in Ghana to realize that this administration is failing miserably, some of us do but we elected Mills to a four year term and Ghanaians are politically matured enough to make another decision in 2012 as to whether to retain Mills as our president or not, that decision is not up to Rawlings to make it for the 24 million Ghanaians. As a citizen of Ghana, Rawlings has every right like any other citizen to voice his opinion but when he starts holding meetings with Security Capos and tells them what he wants done, then he is undermining the administration of this country and the security safeguards that undergirds it and ought to be hauled in for questioning.

The good thing that might come out of this murderer now affectionately called Togbe Awiklaso Rawlings by some “forumers” on various Ghana websites chat rooms, for sticking out his nose in the Mills administration is that, he might be done in by some crazy NDC member to save that Party from disintegration.   Who does he think he is? This is what he wanted to do during the Gentle Giant Kufour’s NPP administration and couldn't do because Nana Akuffo Addo clipped his 'wings'. This is the second time I am going to say this; President Atta Mills must better sit up and address this JJ canker in his reign or he might wake up one morning with a Palace coup staring him in the face. Mills should bare his teeth and sack General Nunoo Mensah, Gbevlo Lartey and Emmanuel Amedeka from their posts. Those guys have demonstrated too often than enough that they answer to Rawlings rather than any sitting president.

How did Rawlings gain access to the Presidential Offices at the Jubilee house? Mills should realize that he has some Rawlings loyalists and 'Judases' in his administration and he can't just straddle the fence. Either he accedes to Rawlings commands and be considered a proxy President or call his cojones into action and sack these Rawlings loyalists in his administration who are actually serving the interest of that "O" level murderer instead of a PhD President who appointed them to their current positions.

The act of jaw-jaw to solve Political differences is foreign to this nabob caitiff Rawlings with his logorrhea sermons and spurious sophism. Ghanaians are tired of Rawlings false altruisms. Rawlings malarkeys are not funny anymore because his behavior is retarding the progress our country needs at this juncture of our nascent democracy and we cannot entertain his hocus pocus which is designed to adumbrate the hoi polloi of the NDC denizens.

Justice Sarpong

DALLAS, TEXAS.