Sammy Gyamfi
Next year promises to be an exciting electioneering period even as we await the outcome of the NPP “showdown” congress on November 4, 2023.
In the meantime, Mr. John Mahama and his NDC are putting together their Cabinet even before next year’s general election. Already, some of the leading members of the NDC have begun calling themselves incoming Minister of Finance, Food and Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, National Security and Interior as well as Chief of Staff.
Some of the younger ones have assigned deputy ministerial portfolios to themselves. To the NDC, the 2024 general election is a forgone conclusion because the NPP government has failed to deliver on its promises.
For this reason and to date, many months after being elected flagbearer, Mr. Mahama is yet to outline one policy intervention that he would roll out to take Ghana out of the present economic difficulties.
They have been blindfolded by their false expectation to such an extent that the NDC no longer think humility and respect.
They prefer statements such as “what nonsense” in reference to a remark by President Akufo-Addo last Monday.
Ghanaians, despite the hardships, are too discerning to hand over power to the NDC again to disrespect them and top it up with their incompetence resulting in five years of dumsor.
In the military and police today, there are distinguished professionals serving Ghana locally and abroad and who as legal practitioners Sammy Gyamfi cannot lace their shoes.
We remind Sammy Gyamfi that humility pays and he must learn to respect Ghanaians even if he thinks he is more “brilliant” than everybody else.
Today, he has directed his “acerbic wit” to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Godfred Yeboah Dame.
Not ready to learn anything from his disgraceful comment on the security officers, he has launched another tirade on the Attorney General.
At a press conference last Monday, Sammy Gyamfi said the Attorney General is engaged in a sinister move to cover up for government officials accused of engaging in illegal small scale mining (galamsey), in his opinion on the report issued by the former Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng.
Addressing the journalists, he said “having meticulously analysed the content of the Attorney General’s legal opinion, we have come to the irresistible conclusion that the said advice is nothing but a poor attempt to cover up the complicity of officials of the Akufo-Addo’s/Bawumia government and the ruling NPP in the illicit galamsey trade. We are alarmed by the serious allegations levelled at the personalities in the government for their alleged involvement in the galamsey business”. Mr. Sammy Gyamfi is master of all professions except for the one he paid for to study, Law. If that were not the case, Sammy Gyamfi would not have gone fishing at the backyard of the Attorney General to appreciate the most basic ethos of rule of law that “he who alleges must prove”.
In other words, Sammy Gyamfi must be told that one cannot hang the destiny of one’s case on what one’s opponent might or might not do in court. Simply put, if one goes to court alleging that something has or has not happened, the burden is on the person to provide the evidence.