*Does President Mills Support ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ of our Judiciary?*

NPP-USA

A special aide to President J.E.A. Mills, Nii Lantey Vanderpuije has said the President

fully supports the NDC Chairman, Dr. Kwabena Adjei on his comments that the judiciary needs cleansing. Joy Online, August 20, 2010. In the army and other sectors of our civil service, when the NDC decides to “clean,” mostly Akans have been booted out. And in 1982, their idea of “cleaning” was to murder three judges, one of whom was nursing an infant, in cold blood. Which of these methods of “cleaning” did Adjei mean, and which President Mills is said to support?

While it is disappointing that an alcoholic NDC Chairman in the person of Dr. Kwabena Adjei would utter those chilling and coded message that is reminiscent of the cold blooded murders of three eminent judges in our society in the PNDC era, it is nauseating to hear that President Mills will echo his support for such diabolic assertion from his sick bed when he was at Memorial Sloan Cancer Hospital in Manhattan, New York.

As stated in our earlier article on this subject, this is not the first time since 2009 that the NDC has demonstrated its disdain for the rule of law and due process. And left to its devices this will not be the last time either. Since Ghanaian voters made the regrettable error of allowing the NDC back into power in 2009, the party has returned to its old and familiar script, unleashing its foot-soldiers and party agents on innocent citizens, forcibly seizing municipal toilets, snatching vehicles from their bona fide owners, attacking officials of the NHIS, even murdering its local political rivals. To date, not a single person has been charged or prosecuted by the so-called Attorney General for any of these palpably criminal acts. And all these criminal deeds are happening under the reign of a President who was a law professor in Ghana’s premier university.

Strangely, President Mills is a man who can be aptly described as a bundle of contradictions: A law professor who presides over, supports and tacitly condones lawlessness. A man who is anti West in his dealings with America yet he will go to no other place than America for treatment of his ailments. A man who cherishes to be described as the King of peace, “asomdweehene”, but threats, intimidation and political turbulence have become the hallmarks of his reign. A man presenting himself as incorruptible while not only defending but even protecting corrupt officials in his administration.

Indeed, the NPP-USA branch will call for the impeachment of President Mills, if it is proven that he caused the statement to be made by one of his special aides, Nii Lantey Vanderpuije because the statement the president is alleged to support undermines the very constitution he has sworn to protect and defend. On the other hand, if the special aide is found not to be speaking for the president as reported by the news media, then Nii Lantey Vanderpuije must be fired as he has brought the high office of the presidency into disrepute.

The USA branch of NPP would like to hear the stand of the founder of NDC, former President Jerry John Rawlings on this issue. This dark drama in our political history unfolded under his supervision. As he is attempting to sell himself to the civilized world as the “father of Ghana’s democracy”, his position on the ensuing onslaught on Ghana’s judiciary will be very informative. Sadly however, it appears the Mills administration has effectively silenced him with the five million dollar bribe that was widely reported in the news media recently.

Since the NDC assumed the reigns of power 20 months ago, it has done little more than political prosecution and persecution. Fortunately for Ghanaians, they have chalked up no successes in this evil endeavor because not only are its officials woefully inept, the cases they have hastily brought against past NPP officials amount to no more than “Wild Goose Chases,” as some experts have characterized them. Thus the only thing that currently stands between them and their quest to unleash an all-out assault on our democracy is a truly independent judiciary. NPP-USA therefore urges the judiciary to stand firm in its adherence to the principles of law and the constitution. We also urge all peace loving Ghanaians to support this noble institution that has always been under attack whenever this out-of-control NDC have undeservingly found itself at the helm in our country.