Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu
Many Ghanaians do not trust the government and would always want to ascribe shadowiness to everything that emanates from the Presidency and its appendages.
Such suspicions are grounded in precedents. Many exposés have been released to the public through the Minority in Parliament’s painstaking oversight responsibilities over government business.
The government of settings, as the youth would describe the propaganda-laced operations, do not portray the President and his team in good light and it hurts. Taking one step forward and doing double that backwards does not augur well for progress, unfortunately we are in a resetting mode under which anything is possible.
After much backward and forward movements, Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu arrived in the country and in a wheelchair.
The manner of her arrival, according to Ghanaians, was choreographed to give the lady, a convict, a touch of decency which she doesn’t deserve.
The arrival of Ken Ofori-Atta, yet to be tried in Ghana, would have received a manipulative fanfare intended to embarrass him and his family.
Ken Ofori-Atta would have been treated like a common criminal at the Accra International Airport, with his pictures splashed on NDC platforms across the nation.
Anyway, Ghanaians do not think that Sedina is even where she is supposed to be, having been convicted and expected to have commenced her sentence.
Trust Ghanaians and their sense of humour. They are saying that she is far away from the gates of prison and that anything about her in the media are intended to throw dust into our eyes.
With the Minority in Parliament jumping into the fray, the coming days would be interesting.
Just how far the Minority can go in determining whether or not the lady is where she is supposed to be or somewhere cooling off under state security. After all, Kevin Taylor when he arrived in Ghana did so under state security, followed by the charges levelled against him dismissed – acquitted and discharged – as simply as that.
An NDC government can do anything except change the sex of a person. Reminds us of Swiss political theorist Jean-Louis de Lolme’s coinage on the powers of the British Parliament: “the British Parliament can do everything but make a woman a man, and a man a woman.”
Under their circumstances, the NDC in government can do many things regardless of their oddity or unconstitutionality, under the cloak of resetting.
If the legal process of nolle prosequi can be so abused as being witnessed today, Sedina Tamakloe-Attionu would soon be set free. Until then however, let us encourage the Minority in Parliament to press on with their commitment to verifying the location of the lady. Let them however expect stumbling impediments at the country’s plenipotentiaries because the Prison authorities would definitely be instructed not to cooperate with them. With the lady possibly not in any of them, their efforts could be rendered a wild goose chase, and she cools off over akple and spicy okro soup with red crabs in zomi. This is Ghana under NDC.