NDC NEC is undiscipline-Dr Bokor

An educator and prolific writer on contemporary Ghanaian and international politics based in New York, Dr Michael J.K Bokor has described the National Executive Committee of the ruling National Democratic Congress as “undisciplined” for appealing to President John Mahama to reinstate the dismissed District Chief Executive for Ahafo Ano South, Mr Gabriel Barima.

According to Dr Bokor no democracy that is designed to succeed has room for the kind of indiscipline that shot Mr. Barima out of political office, and as such the NDC’s National Executive Committee (NEC) has no justification to demand his reinstatement.

In one of his insightful articles widely circulated on the internet titled “The National Executive of the NDC itself is Undisciplined”, the renowned columnist argued that it was needless on the part of the NDC leadership to jump into the matter.

He said Mr Gabriel Barima showed absolute disregard for the very people he had been presiding over as the direct representative of the President and ought to be punished accordingly.

The NDC NEC recently appealed to the President to reinstate the dismissed DCE, stating among other things that he was a victim of insults and maltreatment and ought not to have been ousted from office.

Mr Barima shot into prominence when he angrily reacted to an Akan interjection statement, “Tweaa” to a yet-to-be identified hospital worker at a programme in the Mankranso hospital in the Ashanti region early this year.

His response, “Who said Tweaa… are you my coequal” became a catch phrase in town, and after public criticism and threats of his dismissal, Mr Barima publicly apologized and was pardoned by the President.

But few days after his pardon, he was alleged to have granted an interview, which he later claimed was secretly recorded, to Joy Fm and said he never regretted making that statement because it has shot him into prominence, to the extent that the President himself used it as a defense mechanism to stop NPP MPs from heckling him in parliament.

Following this new development, the President dismissed him, and just as many thought the issue had been laid to rest, the NEC of the governing National Democratic Congress in a statement signed by its General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketsia and made public, called on President John Mahama to reinstate the dismissed DCE.

The statement noted that the reason for the dismissal of the DCE was unfair and may have been based on inaccurate information.

The NDC statement contended that the dismissal of Mr Gabriel Barimah could serve as disincentive to other DCEs in their quest to instill discipline, emphasizing that “the apparent unremorseful interview, which purportedly cost the former DCE his job, was not an official position, but a private conversation which was secretly recorded and played later by the reporter.

The NEC, therefore, appealed to the President to reconsider his decision to sack the DCE and reinstate him, to enable him continues his good works for the district and the party. Hon.

But Dr Bokor rubbished the appeal, saying “absolute nonsense! Concentrated stupidity on the part of the NDC's NEC to justify Mr. Barima's incontinence on the grounds of frustration!! If mere frustration can motivate him to be so irresponsible and undisciplined in public, what else won't he do under other circumstances?” He stated.