THOSE WHO THREATEN SUPREME COURT MUST FACE THE DUE PROCESSES

In the last couple of days, the regular media and civil society have been shocked to the marrow to hear about a case in which a 33-year-old graduate nurse of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology KNUST threaten to torch the Supreme Court edifice, its justices as well as the EC chairperson.

His idiotic reasoning for doing that was that his icon Tsatsu Tsikata was being blocked by the justices from compelling the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission to get into the witness box.

Joining other colleagues on a Whatssup platform titled POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE, Simon Awini Ayamga, a member of the National Democratic Congress’s student political wing Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN), overshot his rights and privileges as far as free speech and freedom of association were concerned.

As has been widely reported, he was alleged to have posted those threats on the platform.

Murdering sleep

He has, as a result, been ‘caged’ by the security agencies for investigations and trial.

For allowing himself to be misled, he has fallen into a situation where he cannot sleep. Because he belongs to a family and community as well as associations, sleep is abandoning everybody including his wife, children, and relatives.

Unfortunately, TEIN and KNUST colleagues, who should be humble in their appeal for clemency, have fired statements to the media, blowing hot and cold and intimating that they would advise themselves on the next step to take if their plea is ignored.

The errant student, it is turning out, has himself – in the time being – truncated his educational opportunities as a professional health worker and student with promise.

Instead of being a responsible person to himself and his family first, he allowed himself to be mired in an exercise in idiocy

Intriguingly, the leadership of the party that he seeks to please had, by the time this piece was filed, not claimed that they had blessed his threat to blow up a whole Supreme Court in a matter in which he has little or no interests.

NDC horrid heritage

But that is the legacy that the National Democratic Congress as a political party is imposing on us and the succeeding generations. And this is a fact that one of the kingpins of the leading opposition NDC, Kwamina Ahwoi, in his book ‘Working with Rawlings,’ established when he hinted in the controversial memoir of the creation of a youth organ for the NDC to protect the party by muting what they claimed to be excesses of the founder of the NDC, late Jerry John Rawlings.

It is our prayer at The Thunder that the NDC, as they struggle to find fitting and responsible responses to the ruling on compelling the EC to enter the witness, would be obliged to similarly assure the discerning public that the NDC abhors boys like Simon Ayamga and the other Simon who spoke on behalf of his TEIN colleagues.

Simply, the NDC must tell their boys that, threatening the custodians of law and order, is barbarian and criminal.

While we hope that this whole thing is a false alarm, aimed at tarnishing the image of the security agencies and the media which filed the report, we would urge the NDC as a leading political organization in Ghana to punish and disown those among them who get on that tangent.

This is no time to tone down the issues. If we must protect our Legislature, which has abundantly benefited the NDC as a political party, we must similarly protect the Judiciary, without which the whole state architecture would crumble.

For once, let the NDC come clean – without any doublespeak – on this crucial matter of a student aged 33, threatening the Supreme Court justices and the chairperson of the EC.

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