HAVE WESTERN POWERS FINALLY OKAYED THE MOVE?

Desperate moments, they say, call for desperate actions. Many who have been monitoring the increasing levels of desperation on the part of the enemies of his Excellency, Flt. Lt. Jerry Rawlings have always known that the option of his physical elimination was not a far-fetched possibility. What they could not know for a fact however has always been how soon that move might be made.

But if the pieces of information coming to our purview are what they are, then SERIOUS TROUBLE looms. Our information indicates that the desperate plot has reached a crescendo and appears to have been finally Okayed by certain foreign powers that have all along tried with difficulty to keep a leash on the conspirators. Now that tacit go ahead appears to have been given, the conspirators within the country and their high level collaborators in especially two neighboring countries on our eastern side, must be fancy their chances at pulling off an action that they have been mulling over for so many months.

Over the last few days, the final implementation phase of the dastardly plot appears to have been fine-tuned and any moment soon a desperate attempt might be made.

This plot has existed from the very first day that President Rawlings came off the high seat. The major reason it has delayed for all this time has been the thinking that the best moment to carry it out would be after systematically marshalling all available means to destroy the target's image and status. This largely explains the systematic, well coordinated and sustained hate campaign that has been relentlessly waged by these sinister forces against the persona of President Rawlings and his immediate family, friends and colleagues and by extension the NDC, thepolitical group whose founder Rawlings is.

The battle has been fierce, unrelenting and implacable but from all available evidence, the goal of destroying President Rawlings' image and good standing in Ghana and the world at large appears to have woefully failed to materialize; and worse still, all indices point rather to a strong resurgence of the former president's popularity.

It is against this background that the desperation of the conspirators seems to have reached uncontrollable limits.

Keen observers of the political goings on are not discounting last week's armed attack of the former president's official vehicle in Accra. In spite of spirited efforts to explain the incident away as just one of the several armed robberies that continue to be the bane of the current regime, perspicacious watchers think otherwise and are giving the incidence all the seriousness that it deserves.

Was that incident a way of preparing minds for the probable big bang? Millions of peace loving Ghanaians dreading the specter of bloody Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone etc are watching apprehensively. The days ahead will tell.