Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo
Embattled National
Chairman of opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Ofosu-Ampofo did not
make a vague assertion when he said their party has men in the police.
He indicated in his
infamous leaked audio recording that these men would champion the cause of the
party’s 2020 strategies. He, of course, raised the spirits of his party’s rank
and file membership most of whom are disillusioned about the party’s prospects
in next year’s elections.
The disillusionment
stems from the fact that the time-tested underhand means of winning elections
at the disposal of the party has been rendered inoperative.
Above all, good governance
has replaced its opposite, a reality which has made it rather impossible to
continue throwing dust into the eyes of many Ghanaians any longer.
The policing
shortcomings observed in the years when the law enforcement agents were
deployed to manage routine operations such as voter registration exercise and voting,
among others, are attributable to the Ampofo/NDC boys in police uniform.
We would not be making
unsubstantiated postulations when we say that some of these uniformed NDC
elements were taking instructions outside the police hierarchy. No wonder
demonstrations under the NDC were characterized by lost eyeballs and bloodshed.
In the midst of the
resignation of police officers who immediately pick up NDC nomination forms our
postulations are grounded.
As they shed the state
provided uniforms and announce publicly their membership of the opposition NDC and
to join its race in the constituencies across the country, we can only wonder
just how many of the Ofosu-Ampofo boys are still in the ranks of the police and
waiting to take the plunge into the NDC waters publicly. We, like other
Ghanaians, are all-eyes for the next batch of Ofosu-Ampofo police officers
which would make the public announcement of resigning and joining the campaign
trail of former President John Mahama.
As Ghanaians, we all
vote according to our preferences regardless of our professions and
occupations. However, those of us in public service and the regimented lines,
we must conform to laid-down codes such as not showing any inclination towards
political parties. Breaches of these would impact on public confidence in such
organizations some of them paramilitary.
Police officers who
upon resigning picked up nomination forms almost immediately have left
Ghanaians with firm belief that they were active members of these political
parties in breach of established codes.
As we shape and fine-tune
our democratic practices, such rough edges must be looked into critically. A
customs officer we have learnt is waiting on the wings ready to take a leap
into politics even as he refused to resign his appointment. Of course, that
anomaly should not be allowed by his superiors because the repercussions and
the precedence would not augur well for public service decency.
The law enforcement
agency in particular is infested by a political anomaly which we must remedy in
the interest of the growth of our democracy.
Let those who are
active constituency executives yet spot the uniform of the Ghana Police Service
and take instructions from the NDC headquarters resign now.
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