Nearly four years after the mysterious circumstances surrounding the demise of President John Evans Atta-Mills, his family members and relatives believe that the man was deliberately felled by foul play, the late president’s Communications Director has yet to inform the nation and the international community precisely how the former University of Ghana’s tax-law professor met his death. So far, Mr. Koku Anyidoho, who currently serves as Deputy General-Secretary of the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC), deliriously claims that he has been having dreams in which he has been on a regular conversational basis with the late Ekumfi-Otuam native, in the Central Region, in which President Mills claims to be hale and hearty wherever his former protégé claims him to be.

Now, it takes an equally demented Ghanaian citizen to validate such inexcusable hallucinatory poppycock that may well point to Mr. Anyidoho’s own blighted guilty conscience. Indeed, less than a week after the sorrowful passing of Mr. Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, the former National Chairman of Ghana’s main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), at 70 years old, the rambunctious and diarrheal-mouthed shoot-from-the-hip Mr. Anyidoho is out again trying to criminally sully the revered name, image and memory of the legendary giant who fathered the fallen NPP stalwart, Mr. Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey. Mr. Anyidoho claims that some history books have extensively documented the fact of the elder Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey’s having “distributed guns and bombs to detonate at CPP rallies.” But as is characteristic with this well-known “Heavily-Under-The-Influence” thug, Mr. Anyidoho does not mention the title of a single one of the history books in which he claims the purported criminal activities of Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey are documented.

Maybe Mr. Anyidoho may want to enlighten himself and his captive and fanatical audiences by reading Sir Geoffrey Bing’s authoritative tome on the era, titled Reap the Whirlwind, in which President Nkrumah’s own Anglo-Irish Attorney-General and Justice Minister categorically debunks the myth that Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey had anything to do with the wanton acts of violence that logically confronted the dictatorial and extortionate regime of the Kwame Nkrumah-led Convention People’s Party (CPP). May be somebody ought to point out to Mr. Anyidoho that President Nkrumah may well have had a direct hand in the brutal stabbing death of Mr. Baffoe, in Kumasi’s Asante New Town, by Mr. Twumasi-Ankrah, the infamous Nkrumah goon, just as the proverbial African Show Boy has been well-documented by the Asafu-Adjei Commission to have incontrovertibly caused the Nsawam Prison assassination of Dr. J. B. Danquah.

Mr. Anyidoho and his Trokosi Nationalist Associates and Certified Human Butchers may also do themselves a lot of good by reading Maj-Gen A. K. Ocran’s book on the anti-Nkrumah coup titled A Myth is Broken: An Account of the Ghana Coup D’état of 24th February 1966 (Longmans, 1968). Gen Ocran had worked as a trusted intelligence officer at the Flagstaff House and knew President Nkrumah as intimately as the likes of Messrs. K. B. Asante and Kwesi Armah. On the Kulungugu Assassination Attempt, for example, for which Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey was hurriedly arraigned before a kangaroo court of judicature, Gen Ocran categorically notes that the ordnance or munitions used came directly from the armory of the Ghana Armed Forces, and that such weaponry was not known to be commercially sold on the market to any private individuals in the West African sub-region. We must also quickly add that a full-sixty-percent of the criminal suspects arrested at Kulungugu were staunch Nkrumah associates and CPP stalwarts, including the president’s own Defense Minister!

On the question of the three retired South African police officers arrested at a hotel at Agona Duakwa, in the Central Region, who had flown into the country at the express invitation of the leadership of the New Patriotic Party, to help the party train its security detail, namely, Major Ahmed Shaik Hazis, Warrant Officer Denver Dwayhe Naidu and Captain Mlungiseleli Jokani, suffice it to observe here that so long as the Mahama government uses the nation’s security forces as his private political tool to intimidate and eliminate his most effective and ardent ideological opponents, the key operatives of Ghana’s largest party, the New Patriotic Party, will not relent in their bid to ensuring that Nana Akufo-Addo, the party’s 2016 flagbearer, does not go the way of the Danquah-Adus and the Kenyensos of our world.

No, we no go sit down make them cheat us every day. Hell, no!

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