The Police Have Become an Arm of the NDC
Unfortunately, the police in Ghana have reduced themselves to nothing more than the security wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). Instead of serving the nation without fear or favour, they now behave like the personal guards of the opposition party. Their latest actions prove this beyond doubt.
Today, if you are a member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), you can be picked up by the police over the flimsiest of reasons. You will be handcuffed like a hardened criminal, your pictures splashed across NDC media platforms, and your reputation dragged through the mud. Is this what the police have become? Are insults and criticisms now arrestable offences in our democracy?
When Kevin Taylor, the self-styled godfather of insults in Ghanaian politics, was brought into the country, what treatment did he receive? VVIP service. He was paraded into the Supreme Court with dignity, as though he was a statesman. This same Kevin Taylor rained insults on President Akufo-Addo, Vice President Bawumia, the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu, and many other noble men in our society. Yet the NDC and its sympathisers cheered him on. They hailed him as a hero.
But now, the very people who defended Kevin Taylor’s insults are applauding the police for arresting Abronye over words that are nowhere near as vile. Where is the consistency? Where is the moral ground to condemn one man’s insults and celebrate another’s?
Let me be clear. I do not endorse insults in politics. I have never been comfortable with such language. But I cannot stand the hypocrisy. If you defended Kevin Taylor when he insulted our leaders, you have no justification today to cry foul over Abronye. Let only those who condemned Taylor from the beginning criticise Abronye now. The rest should remain silent.
If we are being honest, Abronye has not done a quarter of what Kevin Taylor did. Yet see how differently the police treat them. It is shameful. It exposes the police as biased, working to please the NDC instead of upholding fairness.
We must all remember that God is watching. Power changes hands. One day, those who are laughing now may find themselves on the receiving end. If we do not fix this hypocrisy, our democracy will suffer.
P.K. Sarpong
Whispers from the Corridors of the Thinking Place
