Good One There Prof Atta Mills!

The Ghanaian Lens is unashamedly in the corner of Professor Atta Mills and nothing, absolutely nothing, would make us change our position.

We are unashamedly in the corner of Professor Atta Mills for the simple reasons that the humility and perceptiveness that he exudes, is something that we should bask in.

Professor Mills is walking a road he has walked on two previous occasions, and this time around, the learned law professor and taxation luminary, is really walking the road with the kind of gait that is making the sharpest of critics look in his direction.

Professor Atta Mills, since he won by an overwhelming 81.4% to lead the NDC into imminent victory in 2009, has not ceased to confound the critics.

Those who thought that it was going to be “business as usual” are dropping their jaws as the NDC Leader continues to move his campaign style notches higher.

Even those who are refusing to allow their jaws to drop, are holding their jaws with both hands because the jaw wants to drop and they are the ones struggling to keep the jaws in place.

Indeed, the Ghanaian Lens gets inundated daily with phone calls and txt messages praising Prof Atta Mills for his new campaign style that is making mountains of positive waves.

Of course, The Ghanaian Lens is not left out of the praise as we continue to keep our lenses glued to Prof’s every activity and are doing our utmost best to give the people details about what the Prof says and does.

Indeed, when some people gave the good professor no chance, we stuck with him because we believed that there would be a new dawn and a new way of doing things and boy o boy, there really has been a new dawn and a new way of doing things.

Apart from the novelty house-to-house campaign that Prof Atta Mills and his indefatigable Team are engaged in, The Ghanaian Lens is in love with the way the Leader of the NDC is pacing the issues.

Professor Atta Mills’s Press Release yesterday on the issue of the cold blooded murder of innocent Ghanaians by people who appear to be contract killers, in our estimation, is very apt and could not have come out a more opportune time.

Ghanaians are getting extremely worried and are living in trepidation because one cannot be too sure when he/she would be stalked by killers and shot to death.

Especially for the middle class, there is a morbid fear as people are wondering when in the line of their duty, they would anger somebody or a group of persons so much so that people would walk into their homes and kill them at close range.

For those of us on The Ghanaian Lens, we think that Professor Atta Mills has shown that he is on top of the issues and knows when to make his thoughts known on matters of concern to us all and when not to comment.

When Mr. Awuah Boateng and Mr. Samuel Ennin were killed, Prof Atta Mills expressed shock, but did not allow his mind to wonder in certain directions.

But with the cold blooded murder of Mr. Rokko Frimpong, and the fact that a dangerous trend is being established as regards the brazen bravado the killers are exhibiting by killing the people unmasked and making sure they shoot to kill without taking a penny, it is quite clear what is happening is not just mere happenstance.

What is happening is that killers and their bosses sit and plan how to kill others, and go ahead and put their evil plans into action.

And that is where Prof Atta Mills catches our attention.

That he did not just rush to the press but waited until he could establish a trend before doing so, tells a nice story of a politician who does not talk just for the sake of it but talks after the facts make it compelling for him to talk.

Prof Atta Mills does not talk just to score cheap political points and that is the mark of a savvy politician.

Ghanaians are damn scared and we are so grateful that Prof Atta Mills has raised the red flag at the right time.

Prof Mills’s call on John Kufuor, the Interior Minister and the IGP to get their acts together and get to the bottom of the matter is a call in the right direction.

“Ghana is no longer the safe country and investment destination that it used to be and I am calling on President Kufuor, his Interior Minister, and the Inspector General of Police, to not only find the assassins and brains behind these heinous crimes, but also restore hope in Ghanaians that we can operate within a safe environment and not live in constant fear not knowing who would fall victim next to the bullets of the contract killers” was how Professor Atta Mills put it.

Prof Atta Mills, you have proven that you are a very matured and calculated politician who knows how to pace the issues and make the right statements at the right time.

Prof Atta Mills, you continue to prove that Ghana needs a very experienced and measured head like yours and we hope and pray to God that come December 2008, Ghanaians would overwhelmingly give you the mandate so you can give back to us the kind of security we used to enjoy so we don’t live in constant fear not knowing who would fall next from the bullet of contract killers.

Professor John Evans Atta Mills, “ye ma wu mo ni adwuma”.