Those who think they can throw this beautiful country into turmoil by devilish machinations must be living in a fool’s paradise.
Ghana shall pull through the forthcoming December 7 elections with flying colours.
Some bad politicians, frustrated and desperate because of an unpalatable prognosis, will not mind having Ghana degenerate into a state of anarchy so that elections in which they do not stand a dog’s chance of triumphing will be aborted.
Last weekend saw the Odododiodoo Constituency go up in anarchy as gangs of hoodlums got busy with stones and bottles a show of despicable indiscipline which does not belong here.
If the actors in the streets of Jamestown on the day of the mayhem can be pardoned because hooliganism is their stock-in-trade, not so however those paying them to do so.
Besides the police investigations, it is our stance that the Interior Ministry empanels a committee to probe what happened. This way the police would be better primed to manage a future recurrence.
We condemn in its entirety all that happened in the constituency under review, especially those who paid for the scenario to be played out.
Recently an opposition politician said what happened in Nigeria could be replicated in Ghana. He got it all wrong because the circumstances varied manifold.
Police investigations are ongoing into the mayhem which disturbed the peace of the Odododiodioo Constituency, the ripples resonating across the country. They intended through that to have the nonsense replicated elsewhere. Even before investigators conclude their assignments we wish to state that action should be taken against those who were responsible for the chaos, something not beyond the ability of the cops in charge of the investigations to determine.
Elections are around the corner and as we have continued to state, nobody is above the law, and crime has no coloration. It is for this reason that we are totally opposed to the unwritten standard of letting go so-called political cases regardless of the extent of their criminality.
If this anomaly persists, the dangerous feeling by criminals that when they attach themselves to politicians they will remain beyond prosecution will be etched in our political standards.
So far we can hardly point at political cases which have been taken to their conclusions and the culpable jailed. Such political cases are either dropped midway or never advancing to the docket stage at all.
The Odododiodoo Constituency is indisputably a political hotspot. Restive as it is, law enforcement should be doubly prepared to contain possible eventualities in this part of the country.
Lawlessness is an infectious anomaly, which at this time of the abuse of social media can create unbridled trouble, and so should not be allowed to start at all.
The appetite to cause trouble on Election Day should be denied those who have laced their boots for such assignments on behalf of bad politicians.
Those who are at the beck and call of frustrated politicians should think twice because most Ghanaians prefer a peaceful nation to the whims and caprices of good-for-nothing politicians.