Jailing President Mills is not a answer, NPP!!

Alfred Woyome

Once again, a NPP’s Kennedy Agyapong is in a news, not to attract goodwill to his party’s cause, though to continue boring himself into a sand and to arrangement his party’s desperation.

Speaking during a convene in Accra on Saturday to consummate a NPP flagbearer’s inhabitant listening tour, he took a spin for a worse by bad-mouthing President Mills and creation really critical utterances that contingency not go unexamined.

Agyapong settled really that a Woyome liaison has mostly unprotected President Mills as a many hurtful boss Ghana has ever had, describing a President of a Republic of Ghana as a “chief thief” in a nation (Myjoyonline, Feb 18, 2012).

He pronounced claims by a boss that he was not wakeful of a remuneration have portrayed him as an untruthful chairman and a celebrity who doesn’t fear God. Thus, given a boss unsuccessful to act reasonably on a payment, he is possibly hurtful or incompetent, seeking him to select between a two. And he called on President Mills to resign.

Of all, here is what turns my crank. Agyapong pronounced President Mills’ opinion over a years has been good-for-nothing and betrothed that if a boss fails to understanding with crime underneath his administration, he will be jailed if a NPP comes behind to power. And in his possess words, “we are severe him.”

It is loyal that a Woyome liaison has taken a large domestic fee on President Mills’ personal firmness as a celebrity of a supervision underneath whose watch a rascal occurred. The resources underneath that a settlement debt was paid to Woyome are still inexplicable, and a President knows how his repute has been harm by this scandal. But is there any justification to directly couple him with this fraud? None so far. So, deliberation a grounds on that Agyapong formed his claims, what is a justification for his claim of crime opposite President Mills and a hazard to jail him if he loses power?

Here is Agyapong’s porous reasoning: “President Mills is hurtful given he authorised all a settlement debts paid to people and groups.”

Of course, by a far-reaching widen of analogy, we can’t tell who is some-more guilty: a one who wields a blade and stabs a plant or a one who commands him to do so? Can it be a box of complicity, assisting and aiding being leveled opposite President Mills? Where does Agyapong have justification from to interpretation that if he didn’t promote a fraud, then, he gave his blessing to it?

Be that as it may, we still don’t have any approach justification to endorse that President Mills certified a exchange that would after raze in his face as a Woyome scandal. So, again, how will a lucid chairman burst to a end that given a rascal happened underneath his tenure, he is corrupt—and, therefore, qualifies as a “chief thief” of Ghana?

How does Kennedy Agyapong know corruption, and where is his justification to pin down President Mills as a customer of a settlement debt paid to Woyome for that he contingency prop himself adult for jail time underneath an NPP government?

If his indictment is premised on a notice that given President Mills is a Head of State who should have famous a goings-on though unsuccessful to do so, we might forgive him and see some clarity in his effusions. But if he equates that relapse to a approach distinction from a fraud, he is some-more than wrong.

Is he observant that by not behaving quickly to forestall a remuneration to Woyome, President Mills is corrupt? Or does he have a justification to support his furious allegation?

In all senses—in law and in deed—none of those in a NPP stay comes tighten to President Mills’s probity and firmness as a selfless, devoted, and caring leader. Slow to act he might be, though a hurtful celebrity he really is not.

Here is why. He has a chateau in a Spintex area that serves his functions and hasn’t sought to supplement any to it. Despite a meaningless indictment that a supervision of Regimanuel Estate Ltd. had greased his palms to extend a perimeters of that building, a law that emerged after on valid to us how excessive his accusers and those in a NPP ancillary them are.

This unaccompanied arrangement of mediation places President Mills poles detached from Kufuor whose self-acquisitive suggestion goaded him to do uncanny things in office—the hidden of 41 million Cedis to reconstruct his personal residence, a merger of Hotel Waa-Waa, and many other sly exchange that yielded ill-gotten resources to his family, cronies, and friends!

We know of President Mills’ self-denial. Take his rejecting of per diem allowances, for instance. What didn’t his predecessors benefit from this concession—which Kufuor, for instance, abused to a indicate of branch it into a unchanging source of income as he trafficked all over a universe in bureau of his possess personal bulletin of junketing and frolicking during a responsibility of a inhabitant coffers?

Had President Mills also opted for per diem allowances and devised means to go on unfamiliar trips indiscriminately, he would have come opposite as Kufuor did. we am regulating Kufuor as a apparent instance given he is partial of a NPP machine that Kennedy Agyapong upholds as a yardstick for measuring President Mills’ personality, performance, and integrity. Anybody who fails to see a disproportion needs some-more than a psychiatrist’s attention.

Immorality in supervision business is another area that separates President Mills from his accusers. We can’t all too shortly forget a spate of filth (wife-snatching, appointment to bureau formed on passionate considerations—as Gizelle Yajzi would have us believe—and nepotism, strategy of agreement awards, and many other vices) that characterized Kufuor’s administration.

Under Kufuor, Richard Anane valid how undeserved of open bureau characters like him in a NPP could be. But what did we see? After rambling a arms of CHRAJ though success, did he not spin to his favourites in a probity to overturn a CHRAJ’s damning commentary usually for Kufuor to re-appoint him to a bureau that he had left unoccupied while a box dragged on?

For Kennedy Agyapong’s enlightenment, let me contend here that a open contrition that Gizelle Yajzi brought on Kufuor is unequalled, even if her accusations weren’t followed to a full for us to know a truth. She did lift really critical questions about Kufuor’s dignified being and his clarity of open service. The allegations that she done were too critical to be neglected though a Kufuor supervision didn’t pursue a matter to a judicious end for us to decider who was right.

As would be expected, all demeanour of repairs control measures were taken, including intimidating a lady and even melancholy her life should she brave step feet in a nation to lay all bare. Those who were discerning to boot her claims as a effusions of an ill-natured lady who mislaid her pursuit helped Kufuor to continue a storm; though Gizelle Yajzi’s claims still hang around.

What did a NPP do when a former National Chairman, Harona Esseku, blew a lid off Kufuor’s hurtful practices by hijacking a kickbacks meant for a party’s coffers? Where did those kickbacks come from? Certainly, not from any genuine supervision business given no genuine supervision business will fetch kickbacks!!

How about Kufuor’s possess blessing for temptation and corruption? His intolerable stipulation that he won’t take any movement opposite any of his appointees indicted of crime given “corruption has been with humankind ever given a days of Adam” will go down in story as a many inhuman attestation to have ever been done by a Head of State anywhere in a universe about his opinion to that vice.

And did Kufuor do anything to quarrel crime detached from his government’s targeting of those in a antithesis to witch-hunt? And given did Kufuor suddenly meddle with a legal routine to stop a charge of those NDC officials? If indeed what they were being prosecuted for was an transgression of a law, given did Kufuor interrupt that process? Was it given he wanted to quarrel crime by other means? No!! It was given he knew he wasn’t trusting of that clamp and couldn’t be a initial to expel any mill of probity opposite those NDC officials on trial.

There are many some-more instances to infer to prejudiced minds of Kennedy Agyapong’s form that what he is accusing President Mills of is zero bizarre as distant as it is entrance from a stay of a NPP. Perhaps, he feels so emboldened to make such low-class statements given President Mills had combined a room for him to do so. Had he been some-more unaffected in posterior a cases of crime that many in a NDC had urged him to do when he took over from Kufuor, a conditions would have been different.

Of course, by not going after those NPP functionaries, he seems to have given them a prolonged wire with that they are now attempting to hang him. But it won’t stick. Such pronouncements as done by Kennedy Agyapong have rebound effects and will really strike where they will and harm whomever they will.

By creation that guarantee to jail President Mills if a NPP earnings to power, Agyapong has non-stop a window for us to take a hide look into a NPP’s bulletin for governance. we don’t doubt such an bulletin of fight given that is a usually domestic apparatus that this celebration uses to possibly dominate a opponents or to suppress contrariety opposite a disastrous activities, including maladministration.

Jailing President Mills is not a answer, if a NPP cares to know. It might assistance a NPP revisit what had begun underneath a Kufuor supervision though it won’t raise governance. Again, any pierce to chase President Mills will have a possess implications. Under a constitution, how most insurance (call it immunity) doesn’t he have, even in his post-office life?

Thus, by earnest to jail him, a NPP is usually giving faith to what we already know of a aroused and insane nature. Will it mishandle a structure to go after a former President? We wait to see; though we wish a lucid mind in a NPP will come out to rebut Agyapong’s hazard opposite President Mills.

With this agenda, we consternation what a NPP thinks it will do to aver a being returned to power. Its functionaries might be going around undermining a Mills-led supervision and vowing to destroy, jail, kill, or censor a NDC activists.

Whether their appalling intentions will manifest or not depends on a outcome of Election 2012 and what a citizens do in a polling booths. It doesn’t count on a volume of steam that a leaders let out during open gatherings or in private meetings where they intrigue to unleash ruin and brimstone on President Mills and his appointees.

Yet, these are a people who, usually a few weeks ago, collected during Essipong nearby Takoradi, to find a face of God to beam their activities. Is this how God wants them to use any beauty that he might give them, that is if God is even peaceful to give them any beauty during all?

Shakespeare might be right in observant that there is no art to see a mind’s construction on a face; though we are propitious adequate to have a NPP give us that art to do so. By trait of a leaders’ pronouncements and open posturing, a NPP is gradually assisting us to see and know a construction of a leaders’ minds. Indeed, unfortunate people do unfortunate things. The NPP is unfortunate and will turn some-more unfortunate with a thoroughfare of time. And should they remove a elections, they will come face-to-face with their avatars!!

Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor

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