If there is a time that this country needs spiritual deliverance laced in repentance; a national assemblage of persons of all faiths coming together in a true spirit of intercession without the hypocritical partisan touch, it is now.
Previous events, clothed in concealed partisan garbs, politicisied as they were, lacked the sincerity which should accompany such spiritual engagements. God cannot be mocked and so intercessions, when they are not underscored by clean hearts bereft of vengeance, cannot meet the standards of the Almighty Omniscient.
The country is enveloped in a spiritual gloom, one whose description in words is beyond us. Many who should have been talking against the iniquities of the rulers against the ruled have been cowed by the incessant abuse of state power represented by Gestapo-style law enforcement.
A few days ago, the country was greeted with the heartbreaking scene of stupid policing in a civilised setting, one of many experienced under the present regime within under two years of their being at the throttles. What better way can we describe the attack on nursing students in Mampong Krobo in the Ashanti Region by megalomaniac and unprofessional gang of police officers in riot order.
Coming on the heels of the alleged torturing of Camilla Alhassan by National Security operatives as her five-year-old kid waited indefinitely for her return.
The Ashanti Regional Police Commander, the Divisional and District Commanders all have questions to answer for their unprofessional response to a peaceful demonstration.
We have no regrets for condemning the excuse by the Principal that the irate students had locked her up as they embarked upon the demonstration. She acquiesced to the ill-treatment meted out by the unprofessional police and must share in the brutish conduct of the cops.
They even fired warning shots, and we wish to ask whether the mostly female students could pose such danger as to warrant the discharge of rounds.
We bet that had there been fatalities, the unprofessional trigger-happy cops would have arranged a story to suit and protect their interests.
This is the country in which we find ourselves in today. The message is clear and unambiguous. The government is telling Ghanaians that regardless of the constitutional guarantees for the freedom to demonstrate within the confines of the law, this can be varied arbitrarily as being witnessed.
A few days have elapsed since the human rights of the nursing students were abused and no statement has been issued by the authorities let alone ordering an investigation.
Ghanaians who witnessed the video footage of police officers who appeared to be more like militias than trained law enforcement officers dragging young girls into a waiting car could not believe their eyes.
A similar scene occurred in Kumasi recently when the Mayor of the Garden City organised police officers and Metro Guards to storm a slum. It was so crudely executed with police officers wielding cutlasses and using same to inflict pain on occupants of the slum. The scenes were reminiscent of the barbarism in apartheid South Africa.
Things are just not proceeding in the right direction and we think that while considering alteration in the state of things, we should not lose sight of intercession, especially when a pastor claims to have buried 32 cows for the NDC to win power. Why would a country like Ghana with an admirable democratic pedigree descend so low on the decency chart within a year and half of the swearing in of a new government?