Mr. President posed an interesting yet instructive question about what to do with the insult-laden TikToking in the country’s politics during his United Nations (UN)-sideline engagement with Ghanaian residents in the United States.
Some of his remarks could have sounded convincing to this group of US Ghanaians since, after all, they do not completely understand the prevailing political shenanigans at home. Not so much those who live here and understand the genesis of hate speech and its nurturing by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) under his aegis.
As a President, he said that he has the authority, of course, bestowed upon him by the Constitution, to order the police to stop arresting those engaged in intemperate expressions on social media, some of which policing actions, he added, were excessive.
As Commander-in-Chief, he can even go beyond that by especially, as noted earlier, decommissioning Kevin Taylor from his assignment, whose father he knows very well it would appear.
Do we want a Ghana where all of us would have the freedom to engage in the exchange of insults? Is that what we want as a country?
Of course we do not want this in our political culture because of the negative repercussions which come with it.
Unfortunately, as noted in previous commentaries, the system has been poisoned by the NDC’s introduction of this toxic novelty.
Our values are endangered, a reality which we are excited the President has discovered, but too late we dare state. The cancer has spread across the nation’s organs.
Mr. President is enduring the fallouts of the blossomed culture of insults, his new crocodile skin notwithstanding.
We shudder to state that we are disappointed that the President has not considered ordering the release of the mostly women being held in captivity as victims of free speech.
Yesterday, women took to the streets to protest the seeming misogynistic treatment of women who dare to speak against government policies in as much as it pertains to free speech.
Many women are being held and others on the political watch list, their images unknown to our crest-fallen intelligence community. Our female Vice President could have done as she did when the Montie 3 were arrested for threatening unprintable things against the then Chief Justice.
As Education Minister then, she did not find anything untoward when the Montie 3 uttered those un-Ghanaian garbage against the then Chief Justice.
There is something about the NDC and women which leaves us with no option than to regard them as anti-women.
We do not intend to remind the family of the late Justice Koranteng Addow who was abducted by the forebear of the NDC and murdered.
The names associated with the junta-arranged abduction and murder is well known to watchers of local political history.