EDITORIAL: What Is This?

NORMALLY, WE (Gye Nyame Concord) PUBLISH stories like those on our front page with our own findings or stamp of authority to boot. We?ve however barely refrained from putting out our independent findings after talking to the various parties because of the ongoing police enquiry led by a team that includes CID capo Appeatu and Detective Timbilla.

It is our aim that we would not influence their investigations into this worrying allegation that some officials entrusted with the protection of the State have engaged others to frame others up. This is serious.

But without going into the details of what we have not yet put out, let us ask ourselves these questions that relate to the stories we?ve carried today.

What is the implication of a security apparatus that could have an Interior Minister allegedly crossing swords with the National Security Advisor? What sort of Police administration would one have when a Commissioner of Police is suspicious of his boss?, the IGP, and other colleagues so much so that he deems it fit to report them to a politician?

We hope that some of those entrusted with the protection of the State realise that they have an onerous task ahead of them in ensuring that this democratic evolution is not cut short again. We hope they would therefore address their minds to the challenges ahead instead of putting up such petty fights.

For example, among the numerous allegations that we have not printed here are some that bordered on claims by some of the protagonists that they themselves were allegedly afraid of what their own colleagues could do to them. One would have thought that with our democratic evolution having matured and the present pro-human-rights approach to security, some of these fears would least be expressed by those in charge of security themselves. But if they express such suspicions, what would the opposition do?

We take this opportunity to therefore remind those in charge of our security that they can?t have such silly ?fights? and that the fourth estate of the realm is watching. After all, the public right to know what is taking place in its name is overwhelming.

It?s our fundamental duty to awaken them to their responsibilities and to remind those who think that just because we are in the fourth year of the Kufuor presidency, they can embark on personal missions for ?spoils of war? that they can?t.

Moreover, we think that it is appropriate we let the information out than sit on it and be accused, mistakenly of having done so because of some inducement. We?d follow the police and BNI probes on this issue.