In the bygone choleric promenade of that expendable and gratuitous morcha and hartal resurrection by that de trop ” Democracy Hub ” activists, which was meant to fulminate against the sacrosanct izzat of the NPP government – it has therefore germinated a mishmash of retorts from Mr. Michael Oti Adjei of GTV Sports+ fame and the cantankerous woman, Bawa Mogtari whereby they labelled the deployment of the police Service to bar that sadistic exercise and detained a shade of them as ‘ extraneous to our democracy ‘. Indeed, by the definition of our democratic system, nobody can hem others of demonstrating against a particular glass ceiling, but everybody is well equipped with the irrefragable fact that, in demonstration, there is a rigorous barometer laid down by the security headquarters to buffer it, since Ghana is stylistically anomalistic to anarchy, so as every fairish democratic country.
It came like a bolt from the blue for me, when the bookish, Michael Oti Adjei opined his view on the otiose but brutish demonstration without having digested the nocent shock waves it amounted on the citizenry, of which some were put in a flap. The battery of ferocity and third degree, they kept Ghanaians into were luminous to every eyes. I don’t actually pummel Michael Oti Adjei, because probably he is eluded by the brass tack of our constitutional and legal intuitions. For Bawa Mogtari, she is a mere dido and ignoramus and for that matter, she ought not to be given a maximum brownie points. Every demonstration is executed in a benign and congenial manner to broadcast one’s supposed affronts to the directed leaders _ in any way where there is no a reciprocity of this, then the compulsion is that, one wants to use that mileage to mangle the resources and put people’s live in a banana skin, which ” Democracy Hub ” supporters were seen exuding it with oomph.
On record, any demonstration which has the potential to incite spoliation is tantamount to legal retribution. One cannot barricade a main road, ravage police barriers, disfigure party’s billboards and banners, depredate public assets and moreover, facilitate all these rape acts go with impunity! Whose encephalon operates healthily would even give such prognostic ? The least caritas for those perpetrators should be that, incarceration must be the solatium for their witting vandalism. Damages have been furthered and as a result, they should be apprehended atrociously. They had a devilish and politically driven aim for that demonstration and it was about waging sedition and insurgency against the goodwill of this government.
In 1999 -2000, in a case between Yeboah & Annor V the Republic, the same damages were caused and the on that day quoted, Section 172(1) of Act 29 to indict them, which states, ” Whoever intentionally and unlawfully causes damage to any property by any means whatsoever, shall be guilty of second degree felony “. This connotes that, those who have been fingered by the police officers amidst the ” Democracy Hub ” must replicate this same legal instrument at them in order to serve as inhibition and coyness to any obdurate persons.
On the impediment of roads by the pococurante demonstrators, Section 20 of the Road Traffic Act – 2004 (Act 683) articulates that, ” A person who, without lawful authority drives, rides, parks a motor vehicle wholly or partly on a cycle track commits an offence and is liable to a summary conviction to a fine not exceeding 250 penalty units or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 12 months or to both. This is a graphical evidence as to why all those culprits in that demonstration must be caged into the stringent custodian of the police. Ghana is a pragmatically law – abiding country and we don’t provide any vital fluid for any cat’s paw to render the country into higgledy-piggledy.
This has got nothing to do with leadership tyranny ; or a mobocratic rule. In July, 2024 this same incidence transpired in United Kingdom, where five UK Climate protestors have been jailed for complot to plug major road. Hallam, their linchpin was sentenced to four years in imprisonment whilst, his subordinates were given four years to be served in porridge. In Italy, they have passed on a bill, known as ” repressive security bill “, which is yet to be rubber-stamped by the Senate about those who block roads or high ways during protest demonstration. Under that imminent law, anyone who gums up roads or railways will face a jail term and fines of up to €300,000 (£250,000). Angelo Bonelli, the leader of the Greens and Left Alliance, said the bill would “transform our country into a permanent police state”.
Let us cogitate like a whip – smart beings and halt such sycophantic behaviours because of our political affiliations. Nana Akufo Addo and the NPP are democratic birds and they will continue to exercise it through obsequious fashion.
By : Prof. Dinkum.
(The Buzzing Rapine of Erudition)
E – mail : dinkumchoice@gmail.com
