The Hounding Of Charlotte Osei Will Fail - And She Will Serve Out Her Full Tenure As Ghana's Electoral Commissioner

That an attempt to hound the chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC), Mrs. Charlotte Osei, out of  office, is underway, is pretty obvious to most fair-minded and apolitical Ghanaians - who also happen to be discerning and indepedent-minded individuals.

What is not clear, however, is  whether or not President Akufo-Addo is aware that a few powerful extremists in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are manipulating our nation's byzantine system to achieve that mean-spirited and partisan end.

Sometimes, one wonders why the many decent and fair-minded politicians in the NPP, who genuinely care about Mother Ghana and the plight of ordinary Ghanaians, don't take a stand and confront the small but  powerful cabal of extremists in their midst. If the NPP eventually loses power it will be thanks largely to those arrogant, shortsighted and anti-democratic fools in their midst.

Today,  thanks to social media platforms, nothing can be hidden from the outside world. It is time the leadership of the NPP understood clearly that that global  digital development has inherent reputation-damaging-consequencies for hypocritical leaders across Africa.

Today, despite the forked-tongue-rhetoric deployed by some African politicians in their attempt to give the world the false impression that they are committed to good governance and democracy,  the rest of the world can see right through their  chicanery - simply by reading trending news stories on social media platforms and blogs.

The question there is:  Why does it not ever occur to the geniuses who now govern our country that reputable investors interested in Ghana  - and for whom ethical behaviour by an emerging nation's ruling elites actually matters - understand clearly the strategic objectives driving the attempt to  remove Charlotte Osei from her position? Hmm, Oman Ghana - eyeasem o.

It is pretty  obvious to many investors that those NPP extremists who want to clear out the current leadership of the EC - a key independent constitutional body in Ghana - only pay lip service to good governance principles  such as the rule of law and total commitment to democracy: a system of government and way of life based on tolerance, it ought to be pointed out.

This blog, which advocates for gender parity in Ghana today - not tomorrow - does so because we are clear in our minds that Ghanaian society will be a much better one when: women occupy half of the seats in Parliament; half of all upper echelon appointments in the public-sector go to women; ditto half of all ministerial appointments.

Despite this being a nation full of serial-philanderers-in-high-places and powerful-rapists-who-never-go-to-jail, this blog is absolutely certain that those misogynists  ochestrating the hounding of Charlotte Osei in the hope that somehow she will resign on her own volition, will ultimately fail in the ends  they seek.

The hounding of Charlotte Osei by demonising her and by the use of character-assassination-tactics is one of the most disgraceful, dark-episodes in our nation's chequered  history.

All those behind the cowardly  and unpardonable attempt to destroy a patriotic public servant - who served her country faithfully by holding an election that resulted in an opposition party coming to power after she declared its presidential candidate winner of the December 2016 presidential election - must bow their heads in shame.

The agenda they are pursing is one of the worst cases of the egregious abuse of power by a sitting democratically elected regime ever seen in this country, since the 4th Republic came into being in 1992. However, Onyame enti se Alata ni enti, ultimately, it will fail - and Charlotte Osei will  go on to serve out the remainder of her full term as Ghana's Electoral Commissioner. Hmm Oman Ghana - eyeasem o: asem kesie bi ebeba debi ankasa. We rest our case.