All things being equal, the Ghana Police Service would get very busy in the coming days or weeks arresting, inviting or doing both to some key political figures from both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over supposed inflammatory comments allegedly spewed and caught on tape.
First was a petition from the Legal team of the NDC submitted to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) seeing the immediate arrest and prosecution of the Member of Parliament for Abetifi and Minister for Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong.
The petition follows some comments made by the Minister during the Easter period at Mpraeso in the Eastern Region which has been interpreted by the NDC to mean that the NPP led Government will never hand over power to the opposition NDC in 2025.
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This petition was followed by another from the NPP, submitted to the said CID of the Ghana Police Service, this time calling for the immediate arrest and prosecution of both former President John Mahama, currently campaigning to become the 2024 presidential candidate of the NPP and the National Chair of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia.
The NPP is also alleging in its petition that John Mahama and Asiedu Nketia had made separate statements which the, the NPP, interprets to be inflammatory, inciting violence and basically calling for a disruption of the peace being enjoyed by Ghanaians.
The drama has become sort of a political ping-pong ball being bounced between both political parties in an arena that has the electorate of spectators.
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The drama is spiced by Civil Society groups running commentary along the touch lines. Of course, the voting-public either cheer or boo depending on their political stance and party affiliations.
The purity and decency of the country’s democracy are the biggest casualties.
The script is as though there is a mutual agreement between both parties to operate under a code of public lies or a pretentious defective memory. The dishonesty among the players is disheartening. It is like when the shoe is on the other foot scenario.
The same group of persons who were wagging their forefinger skywards with eyebrows raised and wrinkles on their foreheads in protest of what Bryan Acheampong of the NPP said were same persons bending over backwards to justify what John Mahama and Asiedu Nketia both of the NDC had said.
The same actors who mounted rooftops to raise red flags while wailing tears of Armageddon over what the NDC’s John Mahama and Asiedu Nketia said are the same cast and crew now standing akimbo with a gleeful glee smiling chin-to-chin over what the NPP’s Bryan Acheampong has said.
The Insightnewsgh.com doubts the honesty and sincerity of both petitions. They sound more like politically inspired pieces of biased propaganda.
We are of the view the Ghana Police Service should either invite all the actors petitioned against or none of them.
Inviting one and leaving the other would be walking into a snare in which the Service a party tag would be forced on the neck on the otherwise apolitical body.
