Making Ghana Ungovernable!

Somewhere in today’s edition are stories about the fallouts of certain comments Koku Anyidoho, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Deputy General Secretary is purported to have made during a recent interview on an Accra-based radio station.

In the said interview, Koku is quoted as having warned that President Akufo-Addo would be overthrown just like the way his father and the late Dr. K. A Busia’s government was overthrown in 1972. The threat was as a result of the recent ratification of the controversial defence cooperation agreement between the US and the government of Ghana.

He said: “Somebody should tell Nana Addo that history has a very interesting way of repeating itself. On the 13th of January 1972, a certain Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led an insurrection that removed the Progress Party from power. Busia was the Prime Minister and Akufo Addo’s father was the ceremonial President. Someone should tell Akufo-Addo that history has an interesting way of repeating itself”

The PUBLISHER finds Koku’s comments and outburst highly unfortunate in view of his position in society as a politician who ought to know better.

Clearly, his comment was an attempt to subvert the will of the good people of the land, who had voted the government into power no matter how uncomfortable people in his shadow feel.

Interestingly, the NDC deputy scribe, whose unrefined comments were aimed at primarily correcting a supposed error the Nana Addo government had made in view of the US-Ghana contract rather ended up undermining the sovereignty of the people.

The Paper views the arrest of Koku as good warning to all manner of persons that the laws of the land would deal ruthlessly with anybody, irrespective of his or her political affiliation.

The country had long past the stage where hoodlums in political cloths, through their reckless comments, simply want to make the country ungovernable.

Already, two Ghanaians have headed to the Supreme Court to challenge the deal. That is the way to go.

The PUBLISHER holds and believes that there are laid down procedures to addressing grievances in society rather than the jungle style Koku wants all to follow.

Making Ghana ungovernable is not the way to go.