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The tyranny of President Nana Addo, our woes

Akufo Addo New1 Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana

Thu, 11 Jun 2020 Source: Patrick Essien

We are in a country where every heavy downpour kills people due to poor drainage systems. We are in a country where pupils are doing ICT without computers. We are in a country where all our highways are single carriage leading to many accidents and consequently killing people. Meanwhile the politicians we voted for, pass through the middle of the single carriage road with good cars at a very high velocity, and everybody has to park off the road else the person will be subjected to torture by people calling themselves national security. The urgent question is; are we serving the people of Ghana by ourselves?

My disagreement about the new voter ID: Ghana is going to spend this huge amount of money just to do Voter ID while we already have NIA. Because of that, the President eased the “lockdown” just to do the voter ID. Well, Ghanaians are unfortunately interested in the English language so the president conning them with English is easy. For all his COVID 19 night time press briefing, he never allowed the media, not even giving them a chance to call and ask questions. No country does that, not even the US where at a point in time more than 2000 people were dying a day. All press briefings were done with media present. Are we in a democratic country?

Do we have to spend all this money? Of cos these are loans taking from other countries or donors, a slavery mindset still persists indeed. Now, the world is going into digital and many countries are putting money into the education sector to prepare the grounds for the new challenge. The Ghana president alone is busy with voter ID and new tertiary bills so that he can name the University of Ghana before his uncle, J. B. Danquah.

National security was authorized by BNI to make an arrest, that’s ok and cool because the law must work, even if it has not done before, it has to start from somewhere. I’m only looking forward to seeing and hearing that any pastor who makes a death threat on any citizen is apprehended by police. The national security has to allow the journalist around to read the arrest warrant. They even pull guns on the journalist when they push to know the content of the arrest warrant. Why such unprofessionalism? Non NPPs have no right in Ghana? The answer is simple, they are party members so they acted based on the instructions from the party hierarchies.

Since 1992 when Ghana became the first democratic country in Africa, this is the most autocratic government we have ever had. If you don’t bow down to what they say, then they treat you like an enemy, with insult and torture.

God save our homeland Ghana from the tyranny of the NPP government.

My humble opinion. If you disagree with me, please make your point without any attack or insult. I’m not your enemy, I’m a brother but we can’t even think the same. This is called education and common sense.

Columnist: Patrick Essien
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