JJ Rawlings

These same threats were used prior to the 1996 and 2000 general elections. In 1996, people guided by their knowledge that the 1992 Constitution would eventually catch up with Jerry Rawlings allowed him to have his way.

In 2000 they defied all the brutalities of the (P)NDC goons, stood up to them and voted the NDC out. The NDC used the same tactics in the Asawase and Odododiodio by-elections and "won" so they think they must use the same to come back to power.

Subversion

Now they are planning to storm parliament to cause confusion and provoke the government. The law does not allow that. Debate in parliament is not supposed to be decided by hired thugs and goons drafted to make a country ungovernable.

The international community understands that democracy does not equate to anarchy perpetuated by the minority who think if they cannot have their way then the majority does not even have a say. Democracy does not mean a minority rule.

The government has been given a mandate that ends January 2009 and must NEVER be seen to pander to the wishes of the minority nor any individual who thinks he has been given a divine right to rule the nation eternally.

Any attempt to curtail that mandate unconstitutionally amounts to subversion and those responsible for national security must deal ruthlessly with anybody who does anything likewise.

Anybody who wants to go naked in the streets of Accra because he does not support the PRAB can do so but not anywhere near Parliament House nor the Seat of Government.

The police must not permit any such action near parliament to repeat the nonsense that the late Amartey Kwei and Kwesi Pratt lead in Limann's time.

"Fifth columnist"

Jerry Rawlings and his group tested the pulse of Ghanaians with the "abduction" of Jojo Brute Kwasea. They thought their illusory supporters would rise up in protest against the "abduction" - they slept and Jojo was dragged to the courts. Whether he was acquitted and/or discharged everybody believes he had lied.

Then came the imaginary "plot to kill" the NDC Godfather himself. They planted this story to see whether the "forty-something percent supporters" would rise into the streets - they once again slept.

I am convinced the recent pronouncements by our brothers in Nima and other Zongo communities not allow themselves to be used by any dubious politicians is real.

The "fifth columnist" (apologies to Hon. Freddie Blay) who has been shouting "maaaaaaasive demonstrations" will have to settle his accounts with Jerry Rawlings one day before anybody can see him as credible. He claimed Rawlings and his (P)NDC jailed him fourteen times but Rawlings remembers only once or twice.

Can we say therefore that the remaining twelve or thirteen times were those times the MOLE voluntarily submitted himself to the powers that be to betray Kwesi Agbley, Kwaku Baako, Freddie Blay and others then in the MONNAS?

There are living witnesses who claim to have seen this "fifth columnist" walking majestically with champagne in hand to the Gonda Barracks during the so-called revolution to give information about his "friends".

Ghanaians are now wide awake, but I will entreat any sane person who is being persuaded by monetary consideration or any promises to sell his conscience and join any destructive venture to spare a minute and ask him/herself where the children of Jerry Rawlings are.

They should ask those who are enticing them to join these planned commotion to send their children to the fore in any demonstration before they the hired ones follow. We are moving forward as a Nation and such distractions and destructive tendencies must be caged within the (P)NDC.

If their communists' tactics succeeded in Koforidua to oust Obed Asamoah, Ghanaians must make Jerry Rawlings and his worshippers know Ghana is bigger than the NDC and that there was a GHANA before the NDC.

Akwasi Acheampong