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.
