NPP’s False Claims About Good Governance • The NPP family has time and again claimed that when it comes to good governance, it is second to none in Ghana’s history • Even if we pretend that they are not ‘bomb throwing democrats” and sponsors of military coups or haters of multi party democracy, their track record, then and now, is still absolutely horrible • What did they do in 1971, after students of the University of Ghana called for amnesty to be granted to the founder of the nation, Dr Nkrumah who was then in exile? • The NPP family responded by pushing through parliament, under a certificate of emergency, a bill that banned the holding of any photograph of Nkrumah, the mentioning of his name and the professing of his ideology. • Incidentally, President J.A. Kufuor was a member of that parliament and Akufo Addo’s father was the President at the time • In the second republic, Mr J.A. Kufuor, as Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, was part of the team that cruelly refused to allow an ailing Nkrumah to return to Ghana to die • Between 2001 to date, there are too many instances that show that the NPP family, despite loud proclamations to the contrary, has still not changed. • Ghanaians can still remember with shock how a former Auditor General, Mr Osei Prempeh, was arrested in church. • They did not stop there, they went further to attempt to arrest Mr Tsatsu Tsikata also in church and would have succeeded but for the intervention of church officials • On January 31, 2002, while Prof Mills was away in Canada, eight fully armed BNI officials stormed his house and menacingly threatened his wife, ordering her to surrender all the keys to the vehicles in the house. • Even vehicles which had been allocated to Prof Mills as part of transitional package arrangements, were forcibly seized and driven away • Not satisfied, Mrs Mills was summoned to the BNI regional office where she was detained for eight hours before being made to write a statement. • The trauma was so much, Mrs Mills ended up at the SSNIT hospital • Lord Commey, the National Organiser of the NPP is on tape, having confessed that he has under him a group of armed criminals, called Action Troopers, who snatch ballots boxes at gun points • Under the NPP, the situation is so terrible that drivers are even being arrested and forced to fondle the breasts of dead women and kiss dead bodies in mortuaries • The examples are too numerous to mention NPP’s False Claims About Judiciary & Justice • The NPP family preaches a lot about the virtues of Rule of Law. Unfortunately, when it comes to practice, they always do the opposite. • In the second republic, NPPs Co Founder, Busia, As Prime Minister defiantly declared following a court’s reversal of his dismissal of Sallah, that no court can force him to employ anyone the government did not want to employ • In the year 2001, Hodare Okai was unlawfully dismissed from his position as Deputy Immigration officer, upon the instigation of Asamoah Boateng on suspicion that he was an NDC sympathiser. • As if that was not bad enough, even after a court of competent jurisdiction had ruled that the dismissal was illegal and he should therefore be reinstated and outstanding entitlements due him paid- President Kufuor flatly refused to comply with the court order and to date nothing has been done • That’s not all- The NPP always accuses Rawlings of being a dictator, yet that “dictator” refrained from immorally packing the court to overturn a Supreme Court decision after the latter passed a 5-4 verdict declaring June 4 holidays non constitutional. • What did the NPP family when it was their turn after the Supreme Court by the same 5-4 majority declared the fast track court unconstitutional? • They swiftly and without any shame, ‘Packed the Supreme Court” and ensured that the decision was overturned- a practice that has evoked condemnation even at the level of NEPAD • They claim that there was injustice in Ghana before they came into power- however under the PNDC, Chairman Rawlings had no hesitation allowing his best friend Kojo Lee and his own nephew to face execution when both committed murders • Indeed in the case of his nephew, a court initially freed him but the PNDC saw to it that the case was revisited and Rawlings’ nephew was made to face the ultimate penalty • Let’s compare these cases with the several cases of killings that have gone on unpunished under the NPP today • Killers of Issa Mobila are still walking around free today four years on • Jahinfo and Sugri, who were seen in Yendi parading with parts of the body of the Ya Na are still walking free today after Akufo Addo, as Attorney General, superintended the preferring of wrongful charges against them •
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:34:23 +0000
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