On June 4th, Volta4Change will march through the streets of Hohoe to highlight the need for change; a change from the violence and corruption that is flourishing under John Dramani Mahama.
We will be marching to change the cloud of hopelessness engulfing the country and to preach the message of hope for a better day after John Mahama is kicked out of government. Volta4Change will end the march with free health screening for the good people of Hohoe.
We call on all Ghanaians to join us.
The recent voter registration exercise was a first-class farce, a complete shambles from top to bottom.
In the long, lamentable litany of EC cock-ups, this was near the top of the league.
Registration of foreigners, violence and relocation of registration centres to neighbouring countries (specifically Togo) are amongst the grand acts of corruption and malfeasance that took place during the exercise.
These acts could have been predicted, given the febrile political environment currently existing in the run-up to the 2016 election.
Although the EC’s management of the process was poor, their ability to effectively manage the exercise was hamstrung by the originators of the nefarious acts that took place – the governing party, the NDC.
Sensing the nationwide unpopularity with their governance, which by all indices has been an absolute failure, John Dramani Mahama has resorted to any means, however despicable, to preserve his scandal-ridden incumbency.
Due to its rapidly dwindling support within Ghana and especially within Volta Region, John Mahama has sought co-opt Togolese nationals as part of his constituency base, bussing them into Ghana where necessary, even to the extent of constructing cross-border roads to facilitate this. Is there no limit to the John Mahama’s desperation?
When it comes to morality, it is completely absent from the John Mahama’s DNA. He is pathologically immoral, corrupt and debased.
The NDC also has no compunction in using the security forces to employ violence in desperate attempt to keep its grubby hands on power.
Incidents in the Volta region has brought to light instances of police allegedly beating up a citizen who dared to try and challenge a police vehicle taking a registration machine into Togo. The fact that the police is allegedly involved in corrupt electoral practices is bad enough.
That the police saw fit brutally beat up a man who patriotically saw it as his duty to challenge such flagrant corruption and abuse of power, is evidence that the NDC is prepared to utilise any means, however foul, immoral or corrupt, to achieve its objectives.
In any civilised democracy, such nefarious activity would be worthy of a public inquiry and prosecutions.
It is with thanks to God that men and women, such as those who opposed the theft of the voter’s registration machines, still exist in Ghana.
It proves that Ghana has not completely gone to the dogs. Furthermore, it proves that patriots still exist who love the country and are not prepared to let it suffer any further under John Mahama’s rule; even if it means suffering injury for taking the correct stand.
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