Albert Kan Dapaah – Minister for National Security
A favourite refrain of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is “there is insecurity in Ghana” because the nonsense feeds into their agenda of giving their own country a bad name.
Fortunately, that is untrue of
the Ghana with President Akufo-Addo at the helm. It sounds sweet and easy to
label a country as insecure because, after all, it can easily be said ‘that is
politics’ where anything goes.
Shouldn’t we migrate from this
primitive and crude mode of politics to that which is devoid of the kind of
lies and nasty labelling in which we are stuck in a country which should have
gone past this level of primitiveness?
When the Canadian ladies were
unfortunately abducted all Ghanaians were emotionally hurt except those on the other
side of the aisle in local politics. They obviously relished the moment that
the country endured the emotional torture.
The security agents felt the
brunt of the ‘bad mouthing’ from the opposition NDC. It was as if they were
unable to protect this country – an impression which, of course, is far from
the truth.
Trying a ‘police-less’ society
would be too costly, the effects of which cannot be easily reversed, otherwise
we would have asked for that situation for a brief moment.
They laughed as the abduction
lasted but eventually though by God’s grace, the security agents the NDC
describes as useless, an all-Ghanaian operation has restored the freedom of the
Canadian girls.
Is that not enough that our
country is safe?
We have taken note of the lies
about local security agents receiving support from their Canadian counterparts.
This was, however, dispelled yesterday by the Information Minister during a
press briefing.
Governments have come and gone
leaving behind state institutions such as the Ghana Police Service and other
security agencies. It does not make sense therefore when the NDC continues to
attack the institutions’ integrity the way being exhibited in their bid to get
at the government.
We doff our hats for Col
Michael Poku and his supporters from the various security agencies who took
part in the daredevil operation which not only captured the criminals but also
rescued the ladies.
The man the NDC loved to
rubbish after the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency by-election brouhaha and the
Short Commission sitting is the man attracting the plaudits.
The NDC members were nowhere
near bringing a closure to the abduction of the two ladies as they have with
the Takoradi girls. It was unsurprising that even in the correspondence from
their lawyers in which they said that the NDC National Chairman would not
honour the CID invitation they alluded to a certain state of insecurity in the
country in a sarcastic manner.
As we savour the elation which
has come with the rescue and the gradual headway being made towards doing same
for the Takoradi girls, we can say without dispute that Ghana is safer under
President Akufo-Addo than it was when the NDC was at the helm.
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