In May 2021, NDC’s Sam George threatened to beat up the Australian High Commissioner to Ghana.
Jon Benjamin, former British High Commissioner to Ghana, suffered the acerbic tongue of the party.
Today, the same party is seeking to preach diplomatic niceties and why it is not proper to respond to the undiplomatic conduct of an envoy in the country. Double standards and hypocrisy have refused to leave the NDC as some of their attributes.
We are tempted to recall the words of a senior journalist who out of frustration for the nonsense being spread on the political ambience in the country, said “we are institutionalising foolishness in this country. We should tame this madness.”
There could not have been a better description of the state in which the NDC seeks to drag this country into. Just as the nonsense of an envoy exposing her political marriage with some politicians in this country was being put to rest, a group of persons, one of them the coup monger, and others, announce a demonstration unlike we have witnessed in this country.
The coup monger is the same person the British envoy implied should not have been arrested by the police over a traffic offence.
The NDC-inspired demonstration stands apart from others because the organisers, one of them the man who described the military as useless, do not want the police to provide them with security and would rather, their arranged private security personnel, armed, would perform that role.
Ghana is not a failed state and nowhere near that position of uselessness to allow frustrated land guards to don NDC-prescribed uniforms and ostensibly provide security for a bunch of hooligans. The departments of state in Ghana are all functioning and creditably so regardless of the efforts of political power seekers to make her ungovernable.
The relationship between the NDC destabilisation project, the coup monger and the crazy demonstration whose other feature is police permission for the organisers to talk to the nation through the state broadcaster, is a display of a concentrated dose of lunacy which cannot be tolerated even in failed states.
Is that the lowest ebb of desperation the NDC has reached?
Pushing the patience of the country to the extreme is one of the strategies of the NDC.
Provoke the state agencies especially the police and even the government to apply the public order and criminal law, then turn round to cry intolerance.
Impotence is the apt description for a government which is unable to ensure law and order within the state’s territorial confines.
We should as a nation be concerned about the uncouth and destabilising project of the NDC through the party’s assigns as we are with terrorists next-door.
They have lost the element of surprise and will be exposed at every turn they negotiate.
We won’t allow them to instituionalise foolishness and uncouthness in this beautiful country just because they are frustrated.
