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National Security: Urgently Investigate this!!!
With just nine days for the country to go to the polls, the social media space is virtually “burstling” with gloom and doom, regarding the criminal intents of those planning to derail the collective progress made so far by mother-Ghana. One frightening election-related news item, which in my view, must be urgently investigated by the National Security is that which was recently aired on Nsem-Pii television station.
Nsem-Pii television station is all over the Internet and I will be surprised if the National Security capos have not already listened to the tape revealing the intents of some people planning to disrupt the presidential and parliamentary elections, particularly in Kumasi. If the National Security has not got a copy of the tape, then immediately they must access the tape and quickly act on it.
On the tape, one Kwabena Antwi-Boasiako Prince is heard revealing how he has been sponsored by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to contest as an Independent Parliamentary Candidate at the Subin Constituency of the Ashanti Region. According to him the trick is not to win the Subin parliamentary seat but to recruit his followers or supporters to destroy ballot papers at targeted polling stations during the December 7, general elections.
Kwabena Antwi-Boasiako Prince will not be alone in operating such diabolic enterprise. He says other independent parliamentary candidates are also being sponsored by the NDC to contest some selected parliamentary seats in the Ashanti Region. Again, he says, the trick is not to win the seats but to recruit their supporters “to spoil ballot papers” in some selected polling stations.
For instance, on the tape, Kwabena Antwi-Boasiako Prince is heard saying that some NDC gurus met some of the “sponsored” independent parliamentary candidates at the Yaa Asantewaa Hotel in Kumasi recently, and they were given orientation as to how their supporters could “spoil” ballot papers at some polling stations. “And we were made to swear not to reveal anything to the public after having been paid some amount of money,” he added.
According to him, their recruited followers are to hide specific ink-devices in their mobile phones before they go to join queues at polling stations on December 7. And when each recruited follower collects his ballot paper from an EC official, the recruited criminal is expected to remove the ink-device from his mobile phone and conceal it in his allotted single ballot paper, before dropping it in the ballot box.
He said between 40 minutes and one hour, after dropping the ballot paper containing the ink-device in the ballot box in any of the selected polling stations, the ink-generating device would explode in the ballot box, destroying all the ballot papers in the box, thus, making it impossible for such ballot papers to be counted.
Additionally, he said, his sponsors assured him that at some selected polling stations, some electoral officers, security officers and party agents would be compromised to turn a blind-eye so that the recruited criminals would stuff ballot boxes with already thumb-printed ballot papers.
Readers, what is on the tape is mind-boggling so I will leave the rest to the National Security and the Electoral Commission to quickly access the tape with the required urgency. From the look of things, the hatched plan may not be limited to Kumasi or Ashanti Region only, so the National Security and the Electoral Commission MUST SIT UP.
From the foregoing, at certain polling stations, voters must be thoroughly searched before being allowed to cast their votes. Voters must also be disallowed to go to the polling booths with mobile phones.
At some selected polling stations countrywide, security officers, electoral officers and party agents must be vigilantly monitored by the National Security so as not to compromise the electoral process.
If what is on the tape is actualised and there is counter response, what do we expect as a nation? Peace or war? Once again, the National Security must not sleep on this tape!!!
BY G. Frank Asmah
One of the issues we have been grappling with as a nation is corruption, and it has had such a devastating effect on our national development. I have been convinced that until morality becomes the foundation upon which our governance system is built, we can never go forward as a nation.
Our traditional practices, which have shaped our cultural beliefs, have always espoused values that have kept us along the straight and the narrow and have preserved our societies since ancient times.
These are values that frown on negative habits like stealing, cheating, greediness, selfishness, etc. Our grandparents have told us stories of societies where stealing was regarded as so shameful that offenders, when caught, have on a number of instances committed suicide.
In fact, my mother told me of a story where a man who was living in the same village as her mother (my grandmother), after having been caught stealing a neighbour’s cockerel, out of shame committed suicide on a mango tree. Those were the days that shameful acts were an abomination.
Tegare worship, a traditional spiritual worship during which the spirit possesses the Tegare Priest and begins to reveal secrets, was one of the means by which the society upheld African values in the days of my grandmother and the early childhood days of my mother.
Those were the days when the fear of being killed by Tegare prevented people from engaging in anti-social vices. These days, people sleeping with other people’s wives are not uncommon.
These wrongful behaviour was not countenanced at all by Tegare. One was likely going to lose his life on days that Tegare operates, and so unhealthy habits like coveting your neighbour’s wife was a taboo.
Stealing of other people’s farm produce, for instance, could mean certain death or incapacitation of the whole or part of the body in the full glare of everybody. People realised that there were consequences for wrongdoing, and this went a long way to motivate the society to adhere to right values.
Imagine a President being sworn into office and whoever administers the oath says, “Please say this after me: I, Mr. …., do solemnly swear by God, the spirits of my ancestors and the spirits ruling in Ghana, that should I engage in corrupt acts, may I and my family become crippled, may madness become entrenched in my family, may incurable sicknesses and diseases be my portion and that of my family, both immediate and extended.”
Can you imagine a situation where a few weeks afterwards the President goes to engage in corrupt acts and we hear of his sudden demise or incapacitation and confessing that he engaged in corrupt acts before passing or before the incapacitation—and the effect it will have on his successor? I believe we have to critically examine this option to curb corruption.
My grandmother gave me an eyewitness account of one such encounter where a woman died instantly after the Tegare Priest had revealed a wrong attitude she had displayed during the performance on one of the days scheduled for Tegare spirit manifestation.
According to her story, the Priest, after he had been possessed by the spirit, declared that for what the woman had done, he would not forgive her and that he would kill. Instantly, according to my grandmother, the lady fell down suddenly and she died—just like what happened to Ananias and his wife Sapphira in Acts Chapter 5.
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