Prof Stephen Atuguba
We are constrained to return to the subject of coup rhetoric from in some instances irresponsible academics who should know better.
Prof Stephen Atuguba received deserving bashing a couple of days ago when he joined the coup rhetoric gang after spewing so much garbage that some wondered whether they were really listening to a man they previously respected.
When an academic like him starts longing for a military intervention, we can only pity him as we attribute his action to desperation, an infection from his association with the NDC.
Yesterday, an array of personalities whose disservice to this country has been constructed in the country’s literature of infamy was scheduled to discuss the issue of a coup in this country.
Since when did the question as to whether a coup is rife in this country or not become a subject of choice for a radio station? This cannot be an acceptable normal time in our history. Indeed only an over-tolerant government will allow such a discourse to even hold.
Expectedly, Brig Nunoo Mensah (rtd), the man who has specialised in radio station advice on military interventions, is one of the panelists. Did we see the name of Alolga Akatapore as one of the speakers and Maj Boakye Gyan (rtd)? This country! Hmm.
Gentlemen and ladies, we have not forgotten what the AFRC and later the PNDC did to this beautiful country of ours. And those who took part in the murder of so many Ghanaians will want to insult us after inflicting so much pain on this country?
They should shut up and let sleeping dogs lie. Some of them should have been marched to the Teshie Range and like they did to others, shot and buried by the Atlantic Ocean.
Yesterday, one of the so-called security experts, a young man who thinks because he has read a number of journals, he is qualified to throw out garbage in the name of contributing towards a subject too complex for him to handle.
He posed a question about why “government gets jittery when coups are mentioned.” The reactions of government to the coup rhetoric so far are intended to call the attention of Ghanaians about the fact that the opposition NDC is a party which we all should be wary of.
With their unenviable record of coup-making from AFRC to PNDC, when their members mention the subject especially, when this is accompanied with insults hurled at the military for not listening to them, government must respond in the courts and in the media.
The history of coups in this country is still remembered by those who witnessed the aberrations. It is an experience which only imbeciles and disgruntled persons would want re-enacted in this country.
It is a subject which persons who might have gotten over the trauma they went through, when their parents were abducted never to be seen again, hardly want to hear about.