The political bad guys could not have been in their worst elements. Last week was arguably the most worrying in local dirty politics: two notorious foul mouths went overboard in their remarks and put the country on tenterhooks.
They did not only pass snide remarks about judges; the guys spewed very dangerous insinuations and threatened the foundation of the country in a manner that is as scary as it is parlous. Not that they have ever been decent in their radio discourses, but last week’s contagion was unusually abominable and foul. A big test stares the security agencies in the eyes as the whole nation awaits their response. The consequences of ignoring them because they are doing the dirty work of government will be too dire and can only be conjectured.
They went on air and engaged in an unacceptable level of sabre-rattling and went scot free simply because of the prevalence of impunity.
For the sake of decency and in deference to our judges at whom the threats were directed, we have advisedly decided not to repeat it.
The ink of the history of the dastardly and crazy murder of three high court judges by persons acting upon the directives of a junta is still fresh, not yet dried: the painful memory was coincidentally commemorated a few days ago. The idiots recalled the incident with an uncanny air of callousness as if to say same can be repeated. Bloody cowards! Let them try anything funny and they would smell the wrath of their compatriots. We have traversed a long distance since that dirty episode in our history.
They create the impression that they know so much about how the ploy was engineered to murder the judges and the retired Army Major, given the confidence with which they went on their obscene tirade. We the people of this country ask the relevant state institutions to seek such important details – which were not forthcoming during the so-called trials of the persons implicated in the murders – from the garrulous duo so we can better be informed.
We have had enough of this madness in a China shop scenario. Ghana belongs to us all. We would defend our institutions, especially the judiciary, if nincompoops dare the good people of this country. It is an important bastion of our democracy: we lose it and our country is gone as a civilised country.
We are pained that rather than arrest them and apply the appropriate law, a deputy minister is talking about beefing the security of judges. What a feeble response to a mammoth threat!
This week would be a turning point in the high decibel nonsense some so-called propagandists and unruly young men spew on the airwaves. We are standing by. Ghana is at the crossroads as idiots threaten her survival.
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