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Another Reason Why Ghanaians Won’t Vote For Akufo-Addo If…

Fri, 3 Dec 2010 Source: Daily Post

COCAINE

& NORIEGA: ANOTHER REASON WHY GHANAIANS WON’T VOTE FOR AKUFO-ADDO IF…

For two main reasons, knowledgeable and discerning

Ghanaians will be pooling their resources together to ensure that Nana

Akufo-Addo, flagbearer of the NPP is not elected President of Ghana come the 2012

elections unless he goes for a hair sample test to prove beyond every

reasonable doubt that he does not dabble in illicit drugs such as cocaine and

wee as has been alleged by members of his own party.

Firstly, no decent Ghanaian would want a junkie to

become President of Ghana. The President of Ghana is the number one citizen of

the nation. He is the very embodiment of the nation. He must be a role model

particularly to the youth. He is also the Commander-in-chief of the Armed

Forces. His job often requires him to take decisions that bother on the

security of the country with its over twenty million people.

The President

must therefore not only be a person of sound mind 24/7: he must not, for even a

macro second during his tenure of office, be mentally imbalance as a result of

intake of wee or cocaine.

Secondly, a President who sniffs cocaine definitely

has people who supply him with the illicit whitish substance. This means that

he has links to or is friend of other junkies, drug traffickers and drug barons.

Such a President definitely is a danger to his own people and the world at

large.

The story of General Manuel Noriega, Former

President of Panama should be a guide to both Nana Akufo Addo and his apologists.

Manuel Antonio

Noriega Moreno was military

dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989. The 1989 invasion of Panama by the

United States removed him from power; he was captured, detained as a prisoner of

war, and flown to the United States. Noriega was tried on eight counts of drug

trafficking, racketeering,

and money laundering in April 1992. His U.S. prison

sentence ended in September 2007 pending the outcome of extradition

requests by both Panama and France, for convictions in absentia

for murder in 1995 and money laundering in 1999, respectively. France was

granted its extradition request in April 2010. He arrived in Paris on April 27, 2010,

and after a re-trial as a condition of the extradition, he was found guilty and

sentenced to seven years in jail in July 2010.

Having a President who dabbles in cocaine

like Noriega definitely exposes the country to drug traffickers and drug barons

with its attendant money racketeering and the hiring of hit men to murder

people. Ghana and Ghanaians would also be exposed to international ridicule. In

the end, another US-invasion may be what will be needed to save Ghana from

going down the abyss.

Allegations of cocaine use and wee smoking have

been made against Nana Akufo-Addo by his own party people. They (the

allegations) cannot be wished away. The only way forward for the NPP flag

bearer is to submit himself to a hair sample test, the most effective way of

determining whether he uses drugs, to enable him pursue his desire of becoming

President of Ghana.

Until Nana Akufo-Addo takes the hair sample

test, he can forget about the Presidency.

Columnist: Daily Post