There is no letup in the sense of apprehension which has beclouded the country.
A piece of this fear has gripped the staff of the Abrefi Hospital in Techiman and for justifiable reasons. A senior nursing officer of the facility, Salomay Bafoh Awiti, has gone missing and state actors are suspected to be behind the state abduction of the mother whose children are said to be traumatised because they do not know the whereabouts of their mother.
For the umpteenth time, we express concern about this heightened state hooliganism occasioned by the midnight abductions of persons of interest to the national security system.
As pointed out earlier, there is no good reason behind such abductions when indeed suspects can easily be invited over to the National Security Secretariat of any location of their choice. Such suspects can even be arrested during the day so the uncanny ghostly arrests can be avoided.
Armed men in balaclava storming one’s residence at midnight can trigger life-threatening situations such as heart attacks for those who easily get frightened.
Unless those who order such operations do not care whether such life-threatening situations occur and even lead to death.
To think that a country which has advanced appreciably on the rung of democracy and human rights by the end of 2024 has descended to this low within a year and a half is heartbreaking.
Ghanaians chose democracy to, as it were, protect their human rights, not to have the state security apparatus to be misused to hound citizens.
All of a sudden those who witnessed the dark days before the February 24, 1966 overthrow of President Kwame Nkrumah, especially how suspected anti-Convention People’s Party (CPP) persons were hounded, arrested and detained at the Nsawam Prisons not knowing when they would be released, are reliving those scary moments in our history.
History is doubtlessly being repeated.
The Techiman incident calls for reflection by the President and his team, unless the reality is that he does not care.
The senior nursing officer was abducted and possibly brought down to Accra on suspicion that she is Ghana Jollof, the equivalent of Kevin Taylor on the other side of the political aisle in the country.
She appears to be Ghana Jollof and so should be abducted the way she was. Goodness! What has befallen Ghana at the hands of those at the throttles of state today?
Those who institutionalised insults in our body politic must bow their head in shame as this canker devours our values.
The only difference between Ghana Jollof and Kevin Taylor is that the former insults the ruling party and the latter the opposition.
One day when this segment of Ghana’s history is compiled, this dark side of the chronology will be attributed to the man Kevin Taylor says employed him to be hurling insults at his political opponents.
Poor Salomay and others hounded and their human rights abused, weep not for time changes and one day this too shall pass.
Like the WWII German Enigma code, Ghana Jollof remains a conundrum for the National Security apparatus to crack.