Hon. Kyremateng Agyarko Must Be Turning In His Grave

Electoral violence invariably tarnish the image of nations in which they occur.  Naturally,  Ghana is no exception. The shocking and completely unacceptable scenes of violence  shown on television screens across the globe  - showing heavily-built uniformed men  beating up  people whom one presumes were in the area  just  to cast votes to select a replacement to succeed the late Hon. Kyremateng Agyarko as the new member of Parliament for the  Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency  -  ought to be condemned  in no uncertain terms, by all who love Mother  Ghana passionately, and care deeply  about Ghanaian democracy.  Disgraceful. Unspeakable. Abominable.

The barbarism seen in the environs  of the  La-Bawaleshie Presby JHS polling station was particularly revolting. It was as if those brutes-in-uniform  beating up people  performing their civic duty  of going to vote in a by-election  - with such impunity -  had contrived to destroy Ghana's hard-won reputation as a civilised nation. The New Patriotic Party's (NPP) hotheads  who got those  thugs into the  national security apparatus,  have stabbed President Akufo-Addo in the back. They must never be allowed to get away with  their abominable and unpardonable actions today.  Ever.

The question is: Is it not  time  the decent members of both the governing NPP,  and
opposition National Democratic Congress  (NDC), understood clearly that if they do not rein in the hardliners and hotheads  in their respective parties,  they will eventually lose the support of the ordinary people of our homeland Ghana? They must sieze their respective  parties back from the hands of the violent  individuals into which both parties have fallen -  who unfortunately now dominate both parties. It is so ironical that such gratitous violence was perpetrated by the NPP's thuggish  militia,  the Invincible Forces, in a  constitency once held by  Hon. Kyremateng Agyarko - who was such a gentleman  and a reconciliatory personality:  who must be turning in his grave as we speak. Pity. Hmmm, 
Oman Ghana eyeasem o - asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa.