A group called Concerned Citizens of Ghana has accused the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) of exploiting the murder of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Adam Mahama to their advantage.
The group claimed that they have intercepted a copy of an internal NDC propaganda guidance note sent to the party’s communicators directing them to capitalize on Adam Mahama’s death to deflect attention from government’s failures.
[contextly_sidebar id=”RDNbHpDEYE4fys3LtWESunpNqA68rwyz”]“It is clear that they want to use the unfortunate death of Adam Mahama as a strategy to deflect attention from the many leadership failures of the John Mahama-led NDC government, the least of which is dumsor. The NDC wants to dance on the grave of Alhaji Adams Mahama,” said a statement signed by the group’s Coordinator, Asafo Agyei.
The political parties in Ghana including the governing NDC have publicly condemned the acid attack on the NPP’s Upper East Regional chairman, Adam Mahama which eventually caused his death.
The General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia condemned the incident and urged the NPP to urgently address the violence which has plagued the party in recent times.
But the Concerned Citizens are of the view that the NDC is clearly “the one political party in Ghana which always seeks to make political capital out of the death of public figures.”
“This is the one party in Ghana’s history that made political capital over the death of a great King and Warrior, Ya-Na, and those of Issa Molbila, and President Atta Mills, among others. And now they seek to make the same of Adams Mahama.”
“If Ghanaians will recall, it is the same NDC that created a state of doom and gloom over these deaths, falsely claiming access to evidence that points to the culpability of politicians, especially of the NPP. They went on to make promises of using this same evidence they claimed they had to prosecute, and jail the people they falsely accused.”
The group also accused the NDC of engaging in “shameful exploitation of the deaths of honourable Ghanaians for political advantage.”
“In fact, NDC has, without a shred of shame, through its founder, claimed that the death of their own, then President Atta Mills, was a ‘fortunate event’ because it gave them sympathy votes during the 2012 Elections. Their National Women’s Organiser in 2012 hailed the death of the President as coming at the right time.”
“How much more evil can a whole party be? How much more callous, devious, and heartless can the NDC be? Is nothing sacred anymore as far as the NDC’s politics is concerned? Have they no shame?” the group queried.
“Now they are back, and seek to do same with the death of another Ghanaian. It was sad to note, that even at the point when our Adam Mahama was yet to be buried, these same ghoulish vampires jumped on their political soapboxes, drumming up vile propaganda and hate, again, all for political benefit.”
The Concerned Ghanaians therefore admonished Ghanaians to avert their minds to the “duplicity of the NDC, which is not focusing their attention and energies on security for all Ghanaians who daily are under attack by armed robbers and contract killers.”
According to them, the deaths of other Ghanaians including “Fennec Okyere and Francis Anderson, who were brutally cut down in the prime of their lives and careers, have not received the same kind of attention the NDC has attached to deaths they see as politically ‘beneficial’.”
The group stressed that it is obvious the NDC government is not interested in the personal safety of ordinary Ghanaians who a daily basis suffer and lose their lives through robbery “simply because their lives have no political or electoral ‘value’.”
NPP must re-align its leadership
The Concerned Ghanaians charged the NPP to realign its leadership to bring back total confidence in the direction and purpose of the party’s leadership.
They advised the party in Ghana should take tough decisions that will bring back confidence in its leadership.
“We understand that this murder is alien to the tradition of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), but the party must come out of this stronger and single-minded in focusing on how to recapture 2016.”
“Nothing short of this will satisfy Ghanaians, the NPP and the family of Adams Mahama.”
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana