As an honourable member of Parliament, A Plus is supposed to report an act of criminality, impropriety, graft, or malfeasance, either perpetrated or being perpetrated by anybody, to the relevant State Agencies for action to be taken. You can’t be a legislator and engage in useless verbal perambulation.
Throwing salvos of aspersions, insults, and name-calling, all in the name of having a dossier of criminal activities about someone without officially reporting same to the relevant State Agencies for action to be taken, indeed, amounts to behavioral traits of an inmate confined in a psychiatric facility.
Consistency constipation
This is an individual who has dirt on all the 32 million Ghanaians and even insults women with their genitals. He is in the habit of making public, every confidential issue shared with friends and acquaintances the moment he falls out with them. This person can’t be trusted with a scintilla of confidentiality.
And for such a character to be hailed by people who, themselves, have once been targets of his uncouthness of notoriety, to say the least, is a testament to the fact that, indeed, our Ghanaian society, particularly in the area of partisan politics, suffers from chronic constipation of consistency.
Privileges Committee
What is even worse, is the fact that these two protagonists engaged in a public spat, Dr Dominic Ayine and Kwame A-Plus, are MPs for Bolgatanga-East and Gomoa-Central, respectively. And by tenets of parliamentary practice, they should have both been hauled before the Privilege Committee.
But rather disappointingly, the Rt Hon. Hon Alban S.K. Bagbin is looking on, but he would’ve been throwing epileptic tantrums if an ordinary Ghanaian had made such pronouncements, and threatened to haul same before the privileges Committee. Purposely, Privileges Committee is to check MPs.
Enemy of my enemy
We are happy to hail acts of crass tomfoolery because it’s being exhibited by an enemy of our enemy; that’s not honesty, decency, or consistency. To have a society that thrives on respect, truth, honesty, decent, and consistency, we must be bold enough to jettison stupidity in all shapes and forms.
To the Attorney General Dominic Ayine: you’re in-charge of investigation and prosecution of all criminal cases of the Republic of Ghana, as we’re currently watching you do appointtees of the estwhile NPP Administration. You’re busily filing a deluge of cases against others for prosecution over alleged crimes.
The intrigue
As such, I find it exceedingly intriguing, that the decision to engage in an endless verbal shadowboxing with someone making such serious allegations of corruption against you, instead of taking him on, through the appropriate legal process in order to bring the whole matter to a final closure.
Finally, Mr Attorney General, I don’t expect you to come out again, at a press conference, to dare your accuser(s) to provide evidence of allegations of criminality they have on you; you’re well-resourced and officially-empowered by the State to investigate crimes and prosecute same, so act on yours!!.
Justice A. Newton-Offei
newtonoffeija@gmail.com
