Asabee, Running Away From Accountability!

It is only in the Professor of Law’s government that Criminals can sue the state institutions over and over again. Ghanaians are experiencing a new kind of governance where “arm robbers” caught pants down can still demand due process before their prosecution.

Did I hear that Asabee has sued BNI again? Ghanaians must clap for President Mills because this “HOLY SHIT” could never have happened in Mr. Oxford Lawyer’s (?) Ghana. He would have appointed the Harriettas to find a place for it in a Garbage Can.

I think it is a positive signal for Ghanaians, as the executive-annex judiciary of the NPP is now free from tentacles of any sort. Interestingly, Asabee, with all his reprehensible and bastardly attitude to the rule of law, now runs for cover from the law. To me, the court should be the last resort to Asabee in addressing his Legitimate Problems with regards to human rights.

I feel supremely bilious about Asabee’s incessant lamentations over his maltreatment by the government and equally I forgive all those who seem to sympathise with him. Fortunately, not all Ghanaians have suffered amnesia of any sort and we (the mentally-intact) can retell Asabee’s foolery and beast-manners towards innocent people in his heydays.

May I ask Asabee if he has ever come across the word “Human Rights”? Or he has recently been tutored on a workshop by his comrades? Asabee is a political twerp cum blue elephant who deserves neither sympathy nor empathy. It is only Hodari Okine, Asabee’s victim, who can expatiate how Asabee might be feeling now.

As a common minister of information, Asabee sacked Hodari Okine from work (Immigration Services) simply because the latter insisted on due process of anyone at his workplace. Hodari Okine, now an ambassador, was denied salary for over one year for his refusal to kowtow to the dictates of Asabee. Hodari was arrogantly told to show subordination to Asabee before he is reinstated. Nonsense! Is Immigration Service under Ministry of Information?

As a former Information Minister, I had expected him to know better that accountability per Rawlings-endorsed 1992 Constitution is not by choice but a MUST. So, ex-government functionaries should not fool themselves that going to the court day in, day out will do any magic for them. But I will advise them to stop wasting the monies they have looted on writs and courts because the journey is just steps away.

Down to the memory lane, the Abodakpes, ETs, Ahwois, Victors et cetera were unduly barricaded from moving out the country in 2001. Compare 2001 to 2009, virtually all the NPP ex-government underlings are moving out and in without any hassle. Even the Broad Day Light Thief who “sekyi-hused” both soft and hard furnishings including chamber pot from state-furnished bungalow is out of the country.

It is only Asabee who is trying to take to the woods and enjoy his booty but the BNI says Big No! I commend the BNI for keeping eagle’s eye on this man. Ghanaians perhaps might forgive him (Asabee) for his eight years vituperations but we cannot allow him to run away with this $15 million dubious, sister-in-law-not-aware and unbidden contract to his ministry.

This man by common sense is running away. Asabee should answer these questions to convince accountability loving Ghanaians that he is not running from his stinking mess.

1. Why did you choose to travel at a time that your name and ministry is grossly involved in serious financial malfeasance? If I were you, I would simply stay back and clear my name from this malodorous rot. Why can’t you stay back?

2. Why is Asabee travelling with all his bag and baggage and all of his family (nuclear) at a time of no known vacations or holidays?

3. Why is Asabee going out of the country with his two kids at a time that the kids are not on vacation (still in school for his first attempt escape on July 14)?

4. Why is Asabee trying to bolt out the country nicodemusly without taking clearance from the security agencies as required by his pre-criminal status?

May I know the maltreatment Asabee and his sympathisers are lamenting about? Please, let us get this point clear: the era of lawlessness is over and I will rather counsel Asabee to throw his arrogance away and submit himself to due process of the law.

President Mills on January 7, pledged not to entertain any kind of political vendetta and witch-hunting, but he proclaimed that there shall be no mercy for the Ata Ayis. The simple adage goes: “where people’s rights end, other’s rights begin”. Asabee’s right to spend our money as government official has ended; it is our (Ghanaians) right to find out whether it was spent wisely or not. So, he is not moving an inch until he extricates himself from this entanglement.

However, he can go to the court because President Mills has reposed back the confidence and trust to the judiciary system to the extent that his political rivals even win legal battles in court. Hodari Okine had no such opportunity from Mr. Oxford Lawyer’s (?) judiciary. Thumps up to President Mills, a true Law Professor who understands the tenets of rule of law!

The Jekyll and Hyde drama is not an abracadabra to Asabee’s impending doom. This Asabee man ought to exercise patience for the competent investigative bodies to decide whether he should go to JAIL or go back to London to continue his old job (Taxi Driving).

Period!

Abdulai Hanan R. Confidence

Tertiary Institutions Network [P.R.O]

Tamale

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