. As
i would not be a slave, I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of
democracy ABRAHAM LINCOLN
I have with all respect had less interest in
the whole hullabaloo surrounding the cocaine turn baking soda scandal.
This is not
as though am not a true patriot of the land but as an ordinary Ghanaian, I have
no choice but to be fade up with state institutions who have refused to learn
from their flaws and justify the trust repose in them but rather keep repeating
the same mistakes.
Few years ago
if you remember a similar incidence occurred under the leadership of the gentle
giant and I vividly remember the attacks and criticisms that the government and
the police service received. I know your memory is not short lived hence you
would not be happy if I have to recount the whole saga that accompanied those
missing cocaine parcels.
The story
today is not far different form what happened some few years ago. So I keep
asking myself whether we are serious as a nation.
As you might
have heard or read in the media already, the later days of the year 2011 was a
dramatic one not even leaving out the early part of this year.
Firstly, the
two reports submitted by the chief justices committee and the bureau of
national investigation “BNI” are reported to have pointed fingers at the police
service. Mind you I say reported to have pointed fingers because as I write I
am yet to grab my fists upon the two reports and believe you me I would
certainly do that and get you more details of the two reports.
I am very
sure you are also not concluding by now that the police service has questions
to answer with regards to whereabouts of the cocaine turn baking soda.
Interestingly,
the police service have swiftly organized a press conference where they spilled
out several flaws within the two reports subjecting them to public ridicule promising
GH¢ 50,000 rewards for any one with information with regard to the scandal.
Personally,
I see that to be an insult on our intelligent as Ghanaians since nobody follows
the police officers to and from their exhibit control rooms or unless they want
the spouses and children of the officers to come out and “chook” their spouses.
For me, I beg to differ with the police
service on this one. But come to think of it, what is it with GH¢ 50,000 this
days? 50,000 for bail, 50,000 for reward, 50,000 alleged to bribe the judge
handling the case.
Secondly,
the argument being put out by the defense counsel for Nana Ama Martins the lady
accused of possessing drugs that the substance intercepted by the security
service few years ago at the airport is not cocaine can only be thrown to the
dogs.
The question
which borders my mind as a Ghanaian is whether or not her counsel doe not know
this for the past three years that they have been wasting their time in court
until now.
So again,
the past few weeks had another interesting controversy about a judgment debt totaling
GH¢ 52 million or so paid wrongly to a businessman alleged to be a financier of
the ruling National Democratic Congress.
But one
thematic issue yet to be established is whether Mr. Alfred Woyome the said
businessman has a contract with the state and this yours truly is still waiting
for the outcome of investigations that the President has ordered.
You will be
surprised to hear that even though it was the elements in opposition New
Patriotic Party that drew the nation’s attention to the woyogate scandal, they
have virtually refused to appear before the Economic and Organized Crime Office
(E.O.C.O) to assist in investigating the issue leaving them very suspicious.
Not long ago
a minister of state at the ministry of Attorney General and Justice Mr. Martin
Amidu was fired after making a very gargantuan statement about a colleague
minister who is frustrating his efforts to unravel the mystery behind the
woyogate scandal.
As if that
was not enough, the iron lady minister highly admired by even me and hugely
condemned by the opposition and some section of the media madam Betty
Mould-Iddrisu Ghana’s first female attorney general and minister of justice and
now education minister has tendered in her resignation letter.
These are
indeed interesting developments that needs to be watch without a blink of an
eye. And as to whether they are nemeses which are likely to be an albatross around
our necks only time could tell.
SOURCE: NATHANIEL MENSAH
WWW.NATMENSAH.BLOGSPOT.COM/ NIIEQUAYE@YAHOO.CO.UK
