The end of justice is to produce and preserve the happiness of the social and political community (Aristotle).
The whole nation seems to be discussing just one thing, the remission granted the Montie 3 gunsels by President Mahama. Right thinking members of the Ghanaian society believe that the action of the President is repugnant, contrary to good conscience, a slap in the face of the judiciary, an assurance to the NDC hoodlums that they can go ahead and insult and threaten the lives of innocent citizens of this country and get away with it as long as Mahama remains the President of this country. Mahama is ready to sink this country if that will please a handful of ignoble, uncultured, undomesticated young men, trained by their parents to be disrespectful to the elderly in the society for no apparent reason other than the fact that they are working for President Mahama.
These hotheaded fanatics, reckless in their conduct, acerbic towards people they have not even ever met, acrid in their language and unyielding to the pains and agonies of their victims who have done them no wrong ever, took pleasures in destroying well- meaning innocent people of all social, political and economic strata without any consideration towards the feelings of those people. The medium used to propagate these crude insults, is owned by the NDC, their top people including lawyers like Nana Ato Dadzie and President Mahama himself, obviously listen to the station. They saw everything good in what the miscreants and seemingly drug induced hoodlums were doing to their victims, but never cautioned them. But when they got to their apex and the law caught up with them, sympathies from those who relished the nonsense from these orphans who grew up on the streets, took over the air waves.
Yes, I say they are orphans who grew up on the streets because no sensible Ghanaian parent would tolerate a child, no matter how errant he might be, in their chosen path of using, misusing and abusing the microphone in their communications to the society. If in the jungle era, the supporters, children and sympathizers of those individuals; these young men of unstable minds with unwholesome verbiage had denigrated with careless and reckless relish had decided to pay them back, it is not the airwaves that would have been polluted but some blood would have flowed as well.
And because what they did was pleasing to President Mahama, and without apologies from him on behalf of his paid infidels to the Supreme Court and the individuals who had suffered unprovoked verbal attacks from his hirelings, he releases them using a constitutional provision that has been challenged by other legal minds. President Mahama’s desperation in the face of losing the coming elections is driving him to please his foot-soldiers even as they breach the laws of the country.
That desperation, having been crystalized by the rejection of majority of the people of this country on his much touted achievements, as he moves around, has jolted him into engaging in the very acts the Montie 3 were recruited to do on the air waves. With no concrete message to support his claims of having achieved so much, he has resorted to insults on the person of his main opponent, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo. Indeed, Mahama has changed lives and transformed lives, the poor have become poorer, the average person has changed to poor, the middle class is descending, vibrant businesses have transformed into surviving entities. Life has become meaningless to the majority. Change and transformation in the negative sense.
Nana Akufo Addo was in the Western Region, the Chiefs and the people put before him their major concerns, good roads into their communities, and because Mahama thinks he has done all the roads in the region, he says Nana Addo was sleeping when on political tour in the region. I was in my town Dixcove in the Ahanta West District last weekend during the final celebration of the Kundum festival by the Chiefs and people of the Lower Dixcove traditional area. The guest of honour was President Mahama. The major request from the Omanhene of Lower Dixcove traditional area was the poor state of roads in the District and made special appeal for the Cape-Three Points road as well as the Princesstown road.
If Nana Addo had gone there, and the Chiefs had made the same request to him, and he on his part had assured them of fixing those roads, am sure Mahama would have said Nana Addo was sleeping when he went to the District. That is how desperate Mahama is in the face of his unprecedented failure as the leader of this country.
President Mahama tours his own home region, the Northern Region where the world would have expected him to tell the people what he has done to improve their lives; he just took the place of the Montie 3 and insulted Nana Akufo Addo, calling him a dictator. Mahama is a historian and if indeed he took his history lessons well and has followed the political history of this country very well, he could not have described Nana Addo as a dictator. Is President Mahama himself not a product of unmitigated dictator?
Mahama and his cohorts are so worried because the NPP used its constitution and party structures to suspend officers of the party whose actions and inactions were suspected to have been transmitting live party discussions to the NDC, officers who had made up their mind to ensure that the NPP never saw any peace internally. The NPP never had any secrets as a political party. Now that Mahama is no longer getting information from the party, he is worried. If addressing institutional indiscipline in a political party, using the laws and structures of the party to deal with errant members constitutes dictatorship, then we accept Nana Addo as such. Ruffians are no longer recruited to besiege the party’s head office to create problems. His people were and are still waiting to hear why SADA failed. The teeming youth want to know what job opportunities are available to them and the closed SHS want to know when Mahama will give them money to go to school.
They want to hear what he has done to alleviate the outrageous poverty levels in the three northern regions, his home constituency Bole- Bamboi, has 79% of the people below the poverty line. Mahama does not address those issues but call Nana Addo a dictator. No organization or institution the world over will meet its stated goals if discipline is not enforced, that is exactly what the NPP did. So Prof. Atta-Mills was a dictator when Dr. Josiah Aryeh was suspended in 2004 without even meeting a disciplinary committee. Kofi Adams was suspended and even prevented from contesting as a parliamentary candidate in 2012, that was Mahama’s dictatorship.
The NDC, since 1992, has seen three political parties emerging out of it, the National Reform Party of Goosie Tanoh, the Ghana Freedom Party of Dr. Obed Asamoah and the National Democratic Party of the former First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings. All of them came out of dictatorship of who? Dr. Kwesi Botwe was nearly lynched at Legon in 2004, Mr Kofi Asante was manhandled such that he resigned from the party and Parliament. Dictatorship? Frances Essiam, Bede Ziedeng, Kyeretwie Poku, Mejie Barnor and the rest were pushed out of the party through dictatorial tendencies in the NDC. Mahama is blind to them.
President Mahama is traversing his region in a helicopter when ground distances are reasonably short; he can’t use the roads he claimed he has built all over the country including the three northern regions. This country, in the state it finds itself today, will be better off with a dictator who is not corrupt, very competent and efficient than a corrupt spineless incompetent leader who is drowned in extended thievery of national resources with glee. A President who shamelessly takes a Ford Expedition from a foreign contractor is worse than a so-called dictator who will manage our resources for our collective good.