There has been controversy in Ghana about the actual purpose of the training offered to security guards of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), by a troika of ex-police officers, from South Africa.
Some of the NPP's political opponents suspect that the men who were being trained by the South Africans are the arrowhead unit of a private paramilitary force for the NPP.
The NPP, however, insists they were being trained for VIP protection duties - and would be used as bodyguards for its presidential candidate and his running mate as well as their spouses. Ditto serve as bodyguards for other leading party figures.
Alas, because of the deportation from Ghana of those three ex-police officers from South Africa, the opportunity to establish the actual nature and purpose of their presence in Ghana, and the training they were providing, has now been lost.
Apparently, they were brought into the country, with the help of the Danquah Institute (DI), and McDan Shipping Limited.
To a number of conspiracy theorists, it gives an insight into the real nature of the activities of the powerful NPP extremists, who are closely associated with the DI - and allegedly use it as legal cover for some of their covert activities.
In their view, those extremists are in effect running what is a parallel structure of power to the NPP's national executive council and its campaign team for the November presidential election.
If that indeed is the case, and not an exaggeration, then, surely, the moderates in the NPP must put their foot down - and demand that Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo brings those extremists to heel immediately: before their hare-brained schemes terminally damage the party's prospects for that all-important election?
A major political party like the NPP, must not be allowed to be hijacked by a few tribal-supremacists, operating from the shadows, with a secret agenda to revive the ancient glories of a traditional area, and its paramount Chief.
It is putting off many fair-minded and independent-minded patriotic Ghanaians, who actually care about national cohesion, and Ghana's stability, from voting for the NPP, in droves.
Assuming, for the sake of argument, that Paramount Chiefs of all the traditional areas in Ghana, including Akyem Abuakwa, succeeded in conquering the entire world, and enslaved all of humankind, at different points, during a mythical dark-ages-period in ancient times.
What exactly has that got to do with life in a modern 21st century African democracy, aspiring to become a society undepinned by meritocracy, such as our homeland Ghana?
Those tribal-supremacists who operate from the shadows, and seek to dominate what is a liberal democratic party with a nationwide following, must forget their delusions of grandeur. For their information, President Kufuor will be the last Ghanaian leader, to get away with that abomination.
No other Ghanaian leader - in what is a unitary Republic that is a nation of diverse-ethnicity in which no tribe is inferior or superior to another - will ever be allowed to try and impose his or her tribal Chief on this Republic of ours: as some kind of sovereign ruler of a state within a state. Never.
The NPP's many moderates must understand clearly that the majority of fair-minded, detribalised and independent-minded Ghanaian patriots and nationalists - who are included in the demographic known as "floating-voters" - will always oppose any political party with such an antidiluvian tribal agenda.
The NPP's detribalised moderates, who are the party's silent majority, must stop that pure nonsense on bamboo stilts, from those tiresome extremists and tribal-supremacists, with overblown ideas about themselves, now, not tomorrow. Surely, they can deal effectively with just a few individuals?
If it is true that the DI played a role in the coming to Ghana of the South African trio, then the security agencies must monitor that small group of extremists and tribal-supremacists, who use it as a special purpose vehicle, for the ends they seek in Ghanaian society, with eagle eyes, round the clock, henceforth.
As regards McDan Shipping's alleged association with the South African trio, that ought to alert Ghana's security agencies, and their counterparts in South Africa, to be on the lookout for possible shipments of containers that might have arms and ammunition hidden in them, to ports in Ghana, by South African companies.
They should also collaborate with their counterparts in the U.S., the UK, the EU, Russia and China, for the same reason. Nothing must be left to chance in ensuring the safety of the Republic of Ghana.
Alas, one has to agree with those who say that: "Those NPP extremists and their allies in the DI are capable of plunging Ghana into civil war - through miscalculation, foolhardiness and intolerance." But I digress.
Many independent-minded Ghanaians agree with Nana Asante Bediatuo - the lawyer of Captain Koda, who is apparently in charge of the security detail guarding leading figures in the NPP - when he condemns the deportation of the South African troika of ex-police officers, by the Ghana Immigration Service. It is indeed an affront to the dignity of the law court before which the state put them, and contemptuous of it.
The question is: Did the state not realise, in deporting those three ex-South African police officers, that in an election year, it had a duty to the sovereign people of Ghana, to get to the bottom of the reason for the existence of a document listing the individual Achilles heel of some employees of Superlock Technologies Limited (STL), which is said to provide some level of ICT support for the Electoral Commission (EC)?
Did the state not realise that it is possible that that list of the vulnerabilities of STL employees, apparently discovered during a search conducted in the accommodation of the three ex-police officers from South Africa, exists, because extremist politicians seeking to rig the November presidential election by stealth, might be preparing a Plan B - and are researching and planning for a contingency in which STL employees have to be either bribed or blackmailed into doing their bidding?
Why deport the three ex-police officers from South Africa when that possibility had not yet been discounted?
South Africa frowns on its citizens engaging in activities that could destabilise sister African nations.
Why then does the government of Ghana, not pressurise the South African government, to launch a parliamentary enquiry, into the activities in Ghana, of the deported three South African citizens, who came to Ghana to supposedly train NPP security guards - and pass the results of that enquiry on to Ghana's Bureau of National Investigations?
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