At
the time I first encountered this term, it was discussed as a sociological
concept, not with the best connotations or language associations. It was translated
as a group of people who were like outcasts placed at the bottom of a hierarchy
of human groups into a favourite group. If anyone discovered self to be part of
the group, it would be a lifetime struggle fighting it or saving it.
Just
imagine ‘congresspeople’ find no worry in labelling their group the untouchables!
From the ‘we no go sit down’ days when junior workers parading as P/WDCs or
CDRs, who were congress forebears ruled, they have continually and regularly
returned to their society, ruining behaviours cultivated and displayed in those
days. They begin with the attitude that everything of the motherland is their
bona fide property such as power, resources, positions, wealth and even the
rest of humans who resist their nation-wrecking plans and actions.
Congresspeople’s
sense of leadership is completely at variance with development effort.
Development is achieved by harnessing the energy of a people which is then
applied to mobilizing resources to make things happen. Things happen in
altruistically directed and implemented actions. What is done, any action
planned and taken, must be because it is right, good and proper. Not so in
congress understanding of development. In their thinking, it is about
appropriating everything that the motherland owns as theirs and theirs only –
everyone else excluded.
By
that unruly attitude, they have established a culture of ‘government is
procurement’ in our dear motherland. Go and take big money dollar 35 million
and make as much as you can out of it to build a factory that has no raw
material to feed it and congratulate yourself on bringing development to a
town. Absolute heartless wickedness! Procurement spree everywhere anytime they
find themselves in government. Their selfishness in creating, looting and
sharing is without bounds.
Law
and order, they say, is the foundation of development. If you have people who are
orderly by respecting societal laid down rules and regulations, it improves
dramatically the chances of that people experiencing development. The mother law and order document of the
motherland was written and signed by ‘congresspeople’. Some 20 years on, they
will dishonestly come back to tell us they will rewrite it all over again.
Perhaps they forgot to insert in it that their party chairman is above the law.
These
people had no business gruesomely murdering judges and a retired military
officer so they can monopolise power and feed off the motherland for as long as
they have been. They certainly had no business murdering General Kutu
Acheampong and his seven colleagues. It defies total logic that Acheampong who
left no debt (contracted by his regime because no one would lend him money)
would be killed and those who have mortgaged the future of the youth drenched
in debt would live.
They
seem to have realized their folly in resisting registering to obtain the
national identity card. The way I know them, they have discovered a way to
introduce schemes of ensuring it inures to their advantage. When they pretended
they were resisting, they had not developed systems that would fully drive
their stealing ways. I just heard people were surreptitiously being registered
in the night after closing hours. I hadn’t heard anything like that at the time
they had boycotted the exercise.
It
is strange that they have never heard those who seek to rule must first learn to
obey. If you examine political leadership in prospering communities, the most
effective is by people who had been made to live humble law abiding lives. From
our ancestors, Greeks through Romans and both modern dictatorship and
democracy, the most effective leaders have been those who appreciated humility.
‘Congresspeople’
breed their leaders from an ampɛbrɛ
class. All one needs to succeed is to run around lying through the teeth on
radio, television or social media. In trying to twist the Constitution to their
favour, they made the national communications law which contradicts the Constitution’s
free speech and expression spirit. Now that they are caught in their own trap,
they say they are above the law and untouchable.
They don’t seem to know women. It’s no negative labelling. But I mean it positively that you don’t push them around when it comes to doing the right thing by enforcing a law written by ‘congresspeople’ themselves. I am sure their ‘our chairman can say or do anything he likes’ stance would see the real power of women entrusted with the authority to enforce the law they (congresspeople) instituted. Mark my word, the untouchable chairman shall be legally touched.
By Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh
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