Ms Oye Bampoe Addo
When the flogging of two persons in front of the Waa Naa’s Palace hit the public space, we did not have doubts in our minds that law enforcement would not act. They acted and swiftly so.
Whatever informed the decision of those behind the act of crudeness to do what they did has not stopped bothering our minds.
The suspects are being investigated in consonance with the standards of law enforcement. The rule of law is fully in force in the country without any iota of doubt.
Only political cynics such as Ms Oye Bampoe Addo, formerly Lithur, would want us to believe albeit futilely that there is pervading insecurity in the country.
Insecurity in one’s home does not constitute a countrywide insecurity and so the woman should think twice before putting out what she did a few days ago.
The ilk of Oye seeks to look at every occurrence in this country with the political lens and it is not helpful for our country even if it is for the NDC’s agenda.
In her commentary on the Wa impunity, she claimed it was symptomatic of insecurity in the country and charged at the police for a seeming inaction. Unknowing to her, the law enforcement officers were already doing their work on the subject.
The patches of lawlessness observed occasionally in the country originate from the P(NDC) reign of terror and lawlessness when the authority of the state was challenged by hooligans who called themselves revolutionaries. Today, that dangerous seed has germinated and creating troubles occasionally as evidenced from the NDC quarters.
Only such lawlessness would make a group of people think that it is normal to organise a demonstration with the state law enforcement standing aside for a gang of unemployed land guards to provide security in the streets of Accra. For the information of Oye, that is what she should be talking about and not her hallucinatory state of insecurity.
We thought having altered her marital status, the state of insecurity which haunted her is all over. It is lurking in the corner haunting her and making her feel there is a countrywide state of insecurity.
Being responsible in the way we talk about the country especially, the security machinery, is important. Seeking to derive political leverage through unsubstantiated remarks such as Oye did on the Wa debacle is damnable.
Even with the threat of terrorists in the sub-region, we in Ghana are surely relatively safe.
The Wa Naa has eventually admitted to ordering the flogging of the two persons. We wish we could hear her take on this latest development. A former Gender Minister, whose fight with her deputy made the headlines, should not be the one talking about security with such glee.