Ofosu Ampofo and the Cleaners – Training with Live Bullets

It was German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who in his “twilight of the idols” said that there is no greater error than mistaking the consequences for the cause. It is from this premise that I proceed from the invitation of the chairman of the Opposition NDC by the CID for questioning over a leaked tape in which he allegedly made very disgusting pronouncement. (Small digression, what has the CID done about the leaked tape of their own boss Mrs Addo Dankwah? Did the bible talk about the log in somebody’s eyes?). Back to what I was saying, the content of the tape cannot be divorced from the events of the Ayawaso West Wogon (AWW). The ruling NPP predictably have jumped on the leaked tapes to justify the AWW events and put the blame on the NDC. The content of the leaked tapes if true are very disgusting and very alarming to say the least. But the NDC has quickly issued a press conference casting doubts on the authenticity of the leaked tapes, claiming they were doctored and criminally obtained. Now let us following the NPP side of events following the AWW election, the original story was that national security got intelligence about a cache of arms at the residence of the NDC parliamentary candidate for AWW, so forces were deployed to seize and retrieves same. I have never believed that line because I cannot believe our national security could get such intelligence and fail to retrieve them. Now with the leaked tape the NPP has shifted to the fact that they knew it was Azorka boys in the house of the NDC candidate. For me I don’t believe that story too because if they knew the forces were sent to contain Azorka boys why didn’t they say so and why hasn’t it come up at the hearing of the Emil Short Commission of enquiry? Those calling on Mr Ofosu Ampofo and the NDC to produce the undoctored tape if they claim the tapes have been doctored, I want them to cast their mind back, some few years ago the Senior Minister was heard on tape allegedly making some disgraceful pronouncements, he said the tapes were doctored, when he was asked to produce the undoctored tape, he said “we don’t go round recording our conversations with other people”. I want to know whether we now go round recording everyday conversation with others. Here again the NPP as usual is holding everyone else to the moral standards while they hold themselves to the legal standards. Did Mr Ofosu Ampofo make those statements on the tape? We would never know, but if he did we must all in a chorus condemn him for venturing on the path of such war games. Is it possible Mr Ofosu Ampofo did not make such pronouncements and that the ruling government made the tape up to explain away the events of AWW? That is also very possible judging from the shifting story being told by the NPP about AWW. The truth lies somewhere you and I would never find.