Haruna Iddrisu, Leader of the Minority in Parliament
For a political party frustrated, even distressed because their predicament is not responding to the strategies they are administering for the renewal of already existing defence arrangements with the US, safe a few modifications is a welcome reed worth holding on to.
That was what the cacophonous propaganda last week was all about. The propensity to be crude and rude is something they have perfected over the years. Presenting the subject as though it is a novelty without antecedents in their days at the helm is their stock-in-trade, merely living up to expectation.
The documents certifying the already existing arrangements which were entered into on the blind side of Ghanaians and their representatives in Parliament should have been the issue at stake now and not the good governance exhibited by making it public as being done now.
Reading the two documents and juxtaposing them alongside what caused the NDC nightmares, pushes us to wonder whether there is something wrong with our compatriots on the other side of the divide. Mischief is certainly what is driving them to get so hysterical and to even forget that such documents as being displayed now in the media exist at all.
Had such deals with the Yankees originated from the NPP, the NDC could have gone beyond the precipice. Seeking respectability for their picketing at Parliament last Friday, they did not hesitate to quickly claim that the National Chief Imam who was at the House of Parliament to commission a mosque, was part of them until the cleric denied the lie.
When the General Secretary of an opposition party, which until recently was the ruling political grouping, passes a revealing analogy which borders on security, it would be important to put him under the security radar.
Johnson Asiedu Nketia told a radio station in the heat of his party’s duel over the US, Ghana defence issue that Togo entered into a similar pact with France and so legionnaires are supportive of the country’s security hence the inability to change the political status quo in the Francophone country.  This analogy is worrying and says a lot about the thinking of the NDC’s leadership.
Should there be an insurgency or an attempt at creating a security mess, the Yankees would not hesitate to support the maintenance of law and order. Or better still, the skills they impart to our troops would translate in the efficient management of security challenges; something the NDC is averse to.
A leading NDC personality noted for his buffoonery has also promised making the country ungovernable when the deal is passed. Are we not the wiser about the sinister plans of the NDC?
Somebody said recently that the party is disturbed about the benefits of the defence cooperation between the two countries because of its impetus in securing the country through enhanced training for our troops to respond to modern trends in insurgency and terrorist manouvres. It ties into the foregone.
The excitement in the NDC during the brief armed robbery onslaught in Accra and Tema recently was loud. It provided them with the ingredients to tell Ghanaians that the security of the country had gone to the dogs, an important campaign stuff for them. It fizzled out as soon as it erupted.
The NPP, when it was in opposition did not make as much noise when the two terrorism trainers were brought into the country; the details of the arrangement shrouded in high level secrecy. What an opposition party! Cunning, mischievous, rude and crude!