With all due respect, is President Mahama not bothered by the unbridled arrogance of power?

I have been compelled to wade into the illimitable arrogance of power and the squeamishly ugly impishness being displayed by some appointees of the ruling NDC administration.

Regrettably, there is a disgusting clip going round, allegedly showing the communications minister, Sam George, unabashedly and somewhat insolently scolding a military officer, whose alleged crime was simply carrying out his assigned duty.

The seemingly reprehensible conduct has invariably raised concerns as to whether the said protagonist, Sam George, is a nationalist, a modest, and unpretentious man to be appointed to the high office as a minister.

Ghana, to be quite honest, does not need the men and women, who are illimitably immersed in a gamut of shenanigans, impudence, and irredeemable impishness to oversee important positions.

If you would recall, a few years ago, the NDC’s Communication Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, hereafter, the chief executive officer of the Gold Board, conspicuously doused in a gamut of emotions, audaciously came out during the 2020 voter registration exercise and issued threats to the security forces, whose only crime was to discharge their constitutionally mandated duty (see: We'll deal with you mercilessly when we come to power - Sammy Gyamfi threatens recalcitrant soldiers, policemen - ABC News, 23/07/2020).

Sammy Gyamfi is said to have asserted somewhat brashly and impertinently: “Notice is hereby served to all unscrupulous Security Officials who have lent themselves to the despotic Akufo-Addo government as plaint agents of violence against innocent citizens, that the next NDC government will fish them out and deal with them mercilessly when power eventually shifts.”

“What the plan is and we are telling them all the people there they are making…the Police officers there, they are making their Police Career… The Military Officers, they are making their career in the Military, that respected State Security Agency coterminous with that of President Akufo-Addo. The day President Akufo-Addo will exit office will be the last day they will serve as Policemen and Military men and we will deal with them mercilessly. That is the message we are sending across to them”, a furious Sammy Gyamfi at a press briefing on Wednesday- July 22 2020 (SOURCE: www.Ghgossip.com).

Let me venture to stress that it is only in Ghana where some politicians harbour an isolated thinker’s view that citizens remain their bona fide commodities and therefore can be threatened, hoodwinked, and manipulated at their own convenience.

If that were not the case, how on earth can appointees of the government, out of impertinent boldness, threaten a section of the voting public with unabashed disgust?

I’m afraid, the brassbound supporters of the National Democratic Congress have a penchant for threatening and abusing those who give them the mandate with an abashed disgust. .

If you may remember, sometime in 2016, the infamous Montie 3 unblushingly hurled invectives and issued threats to the Justices of the Supreme Court, including threat to rape. How pathetic?

A few years down the line, the Medina Constituency Member of Parliament, Francis-Xavier Sosu, ‘dishonourably’ issued threats to the judges in the country with no apparent reason.

I cannot for the life of me, get my head around as to how and why any reasonable politician can choose to abuse the same people who elected them to power.

Election, as a matter of fact, is a social contract whereby a candidate solicits for an electorate’s mandate in exchange of better living conditions, among other things, security and protection of life and property.

It is therefore unconscionable if an elected politician chooses to trample upon the electorates anyhow.

Unfortunately, it is only a country called Ghana, where the elected or appointed officers can unblushingly attack and insult the denizens and citizens without any comeuppance.

May God bless our homeland Ghana!
K. Badu, UK.
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