Nearly one week after the residence of the former Finance Minister, Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori Atta has been raided illegally by some military and police personnel, we are still not told who instructed or was behind this utterly odious invasion. The President is pretentiously silent on the matter. The military high command doesn’t care! Defence Minister, Chief of Defence Staff and the Inspector General of Police are absolutely indifferent. 

Clearly, President Mahama has lost it. He has failed to protect a citizen as enshrined in the constitution of the Republic Ghana. This Rambo-like raid in a liberal democratic dispensation makes nonsense of constitutional governance and undermines the peace of the state!

What is happening to our country? Has the dark days of military brutality and attacks on democracy returned? 

Is the nation being reset to wallow in a dictatorship, fear and anarchy? 

The defeaning silence of the CSO community on this particular raid is troubling. l challenge the CDD, IMANI, etc to demonstrate the zeal they showed in their advocacy against “bad” governance during the eight year administration of the immediate past government. Your work is not completed after the NDC won power. Ghanaians will not allow you to operate unchecked. Your credibility, integrity and impartiality will be interrogated for the next four years.

The President must not stay aloof. He must make a public statement on this matter and cause an immediate investigation into this impunity and pronouncedly seek the arrest of all the persons involved to face the law. 

This is how a country is “reset”.

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