Pink Sheet, Collation Sheet And Ballot Boxes

There is every indication that Madam Charlotte Osei and her Electoral Commission wish to rig the 2016 elections at all cost in favour of the ruling party’s candidate.

Right from the day of her appointment as the chairperson of the EC, Madam Charlotte Osei has not taken one single decision or step that suggests that she wants to conduct credible, transparent, free and fair elections in Ghana. 

All arrangements, plans, activities and exercises geared towards the preparations for and conduct of the 2016 elections have been faulty, controversial and pregnant with sheer arrogance, stubbornness and impudence on her part. To say that she has been and is still exhibiting incompetence, disrespect and insensitivity towards the concern of the stakeholders and especially the sovereign people of Ghana is just stating the obvious. But it appears, and rightly so, from her conduct and utterances that she has a hidden agenda to “crown” EA Mahama’s son for an underserved electoral victory in December 2016. 

Her latest effusion from the United Kingdom and the dealings in Ghana confirm these assertions. Madam Charlotte Osei had the impudence to announce in the UK that she might stop the declaration of the Presidential results if the results are too close and would rather call for a recount. She justified that more by the EC in order to avoid a declaration of a wrong person as the winner of the election.

Ei Ama Alata!! Is that where you want to take a nation blessed with gold and oil to? Do you realize the danger in that statement? How are the results going to be compiled? Are we going to declare the results of all Polling Stations or not? Are those results going to be entered on the “Pink Sheets” or not? 

Are the results on the “Pink Sheets” going to be entered on the “Collation sheets” or not? If the information (results) on the “Collation Sheets” will they be changed (doctored) by the EC, their officials/agents and their accomplices in the NDC? 

If the results declared at the Polling Stations are correct and a true reflection of what happened there (in terms of valid votes and actual votes cast) and the same is put on the collation sheets which are also put together naturally, how can a wrong person be declared the winner? 

In any case, when will the election be too close for the chairperson of the EC to call for a recount? Is it when the difference between the first and second candidates is less than 1% of the valid votes cast or in terms of numbers such as fifty thousand votes or what?

What is the position of the law on the declaration of a winner in the presidential elections in Ghana? Is it not and has it not always been in favor of the candidate who obtains more than 50% of the valid votes (the so called 50+1)? 

In percentage terms, the winner must have 50+% which could be 50.0001% or 50.0002% or 50.0004% or 50.0005% or 50.1%. The most important thing is that the winning candidate must have more than half of the total valid votes such that if the votes of all the other candidates or the only other candidate (when there is a Run-Off) are put together they (the votes) will be less than half or 50% of the total valid votes. So where is the justification for Ama Alata’s “dangerous statement”?

When one juxtaposes her statement on the deliberate omissions in the CI 94 on the 2016 elections and the controversial award of the contract on printing of the Pink Sheets and Collation sheets to “AeroVote Limited” then one can understand where Madam Charlotte Osei is coming from.

Madam Osei and her EC had been silent on the contract for the printing of the Pink Sheets at IPAC and other forums until media reports suggested that the EC has awarded an $8 million contract to a liquidated firm in the UK. 

While the printing of ballot papers for the Parliamentary elections had been known, the “According Materials” (Pink Sheets and Collation Sheets) were yet to be printed. No mention had been made of that even though they formed the evidential base of the Election Petition in the 2012 elections.

I would like to challenge Madam Charlotte Osei on the so-called contract signed with AeroVote Limited. We would also like to challenge her about the fact that the right procurement process was applied in the award of the contract and that AeroVote Limited satisfied all the requirements. 

What Madam Charlotte Osei does not know or is pretending not to know or does not care to know is that, everything about the Pink Sheets and Collation Sheets is at the instance of and in the interest of the NDC.

The EC of Ghana used to deal with AeroVote Limited (UK) when it was solvent and was printing election materials for Kenya and Ghana. But the company (AeroVote Limited) had become insolvent and had been liquidated in the United Kingdom. The liquidation had become known to the EC, NDC and Dr. Afari Gyan. So a plan was hatched to acquire the printing equipment in order to set up company in Ghana for the printing of election materials (Pink Sheets and Collation Sheets) for Ghana’s elections.

The equipment was bought by the NDC. It is said that the man whose travel and tours company was indicted by a government of Ghana report was the one who facilitated and enabled the purchase of the equipment to be effected.

A company had hurriedly been formed in Ghana in December 2015 by three known NDC members as a private company thereby satisfying the minimum capital requirement of five hundred Ghana cedis (GH¢500.00) or five million old Ghana cedis. 

Again, as a Private Company, the Company formed in Ghana “Aerovote Security Printing Ghana Limited” met the minimum number of directors requirement of two by having three directory namely, Kofi Burah Asomaning of Platinum Securities, Tyrese Nii Dodoo of Bubuashie and John Tetteh Akwerh of Trust Resources Limited.

With the formation of Aerovate Security Printing Ghana Limited, the guy who allows his baby mama to put behind bars by operatives of the Bureau of National Investigations with funds, contracts and the directors at his disposal caused the equipment to be shipped to Ghana. 

The equipment got to Ghana in 2016 – as per the NDC’s plan – and was originally to be installed at the Accra Airport in the premises of an existing Aviation company. A director and partner of the Aviation Company who has been very instrumental in the formation of the new company – Aerovote Security Printing Ghana Limited – was tasked to clear the equipment from the Port. He encountered some difficulties initially.

Customs officials at the Port discovered that in addition to the equipment, there were large quantities of already printed Pink Sheets and Collation Sheets as part of the consignment.

The discovery aroused the suspicion of the Customs Officers who detected that the Pink and Collation Sheets were the same as those used for the 2012 elections in Ghana. The director clearing the consignment quickly contacted the fat and short guy at the Presidency. With the “coercive” power of the former chief executive of the Ghana Tourism Authority who now operates from the Presidency, the goods were released for the director concerned to conduct his businesses.

The director have to look for a new location to install the equipment to start the test printing before the main operations of printing the number of Pink Sheets and Collation Sheets that would be required by the EC of Ghana and the NDC  to ensure victory for EA Mahama’s son.

The directors were able to find a new location on the Spintex Road in Accra at a hidden place to undertake the operations.

I wish to put it on authority that the former chief executive of the Ghana Tourism Authority who now operates from the Presidency was responsible for the acquisition of the equipments and its shipment to Ghana and formation of the company. He was the one who entered into agreement with Aerovote Security Printing Ghana Limited to print the Pink Sheets and Collation Sheets and not the EC of Ghana.

Everything is being done on behalf of the EC by the Presidency to ensure that, EA Mahama’s son wins again.

I challenge Madam Osei to produce all the relevant documentation on the contract with Aerovote   Limited which she claims has relocated to Ghana.

I expect Madam Osei to provide all the relevant information about Aerovote Limited. As part of due diligence, Madam Osei and her EC had to have full information on a company that was or is responsible for printing sensitive electoral materials for Ghana’s crucial elections in 2016.

Again, Madam Osei and the EC should provide all the relevant information about the “Relocated Aerovote Limited” in Ghana. For example, who are the directors and Agents of the “Relocated Aerovote Limited”?

Where are the offices of this company? What are the inscriptions, the logo, insignia and the other relevant means of identification associated with Relocated Aerovote Limited? 

When was this Relocated Company was issued a certificate for commencement of business in Ghana? Did it file all the relevant returns to the Registrar General’s Department? If yes, what are the details on the returns?

For instance, can the EC Chair make available to Ghanaians copies of the regulations of the “Relocated Aerovote Limited? What are the details in the Regulations? What is the nature of the core business of this company in Ghana? Who are the first or named directors of this company? 

What are the powers of these directors? What limitations were or have been placed on the powers of these directors? What are the total registered shares of this company? How are these shares owned? What is the par or nominal value of a share in this company?

As part of her duty of due diligence, care and skill, Madam Osei must provide documentary evidence and responses to these pertinent questions. No arrogant, please madam!!

I understand that Aerovote Security Printing Ghana Limited is now in the final phase of installation and test trials for the printing of the electoral materials.

My understanding is that the company needed sometime to become fully operational as at 28^th October, 2016 hence the decision by the EC to challenge the candidacy of Dr. Nduom at the Supreme Court to enable “its partners in crime” to become ready before the printing of the electoral materials which may also include the printing of Presidential Ballot Papers.

The aim of the NDC and the EC is to have a Ghanaian registered company owned by the NDC and its surrogates who will be in charge of printing electoral materials for Ghana’s EC from 2016 to ad infinitum. This is a poly to have the capacity to rig current and future elections in Ghana.

The Indians and Kenyans who are partnering the Ghanaians NDC members and agents are fully aware of and happy with these arrangements. Mr. Asiedu Nketiah has always been remarking that, while the NDC is always strategizing to win elections (indeed rig elections), the NPP seems to be more concerned with fair play, transparency, free and fair elections and the role of law. The NDC has always been improving upon its mode of rigging elections. 

Specially trained persons in rigging from the NDC have willing partners at the EC who share ideas, polish, improve upon and re-engineer new strategies and tactics for that purpose in every election year. Thus, the NDC never wins election but manages to get a declaration of victory at all crucial elections.

…to be continued

Resist Unlawful Commands And Arise For Change (2)

But can the same be said of our Commander In Chief? Certainly, No! Here is a leader who picks and chooses the “juicy” parts of the rule of law but flagrantly violates those parts of our laws that fetter his ambition and dishonest rule. He disregards various constitutional and statutory provisions that do not help the course of his incompetence and corruption.

Instead of preaching peace, he is doing otherwise. He and his friends in the security services are gearing up for series of battles. 

Already, several plans have been hatched based on various scenarios. With that murderer in charge of the various plans of derailing our democratic march, arms and ammunition have been stocked in private homes of some members of party. 

ARMS AND AMMUNITION IMPORTED IN THE NAME OF THE ARMED FORCES AND CLEARED UNUSUALLY FROM THE TAKORADI PORT HAVE BEEN CONVEYED TO UNKNOWN LOCATIONS OF THESE WAR MONGERS. THESE ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS WERE DELIBERATELY SENT TO LOCATIONS CLOSE TO THE BASE AMMUNITION DEPOT NEAR 1^ST INFANTRY BATTALION AT MICHEL CAMP AS IF THEY WERE BEING SENT TO THE APPROPRIATE MILITARY DESIGNATED DEPOT FOR ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS BUT WERE INEXPLICABLY SENT AWAY IN NON-MILITARY VEHICLES UNDER MILITARY ESCORT.

MILITARY POLICE PERSONNEL HAD ESCORTED THE VEHICLES ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS FROM TAKORADI TO TEMA BUT WERE DRIVEN AWAY ON THE ORDERS OF THE THEN COMMANDING OFFICER OF 1^ST INFANTRY BATTALION. TO DATE PERHAPS, ONLY TWO PERSONS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY MAY KNOW ABOUT THOSE CONTRACTS AND THE DESTINATIONS OF THE ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS. 

The intentions are so clear. They are not prepared or willing to hand over power to their bitterest enemies. They are prepared to fight. They are provoking war on all fronts starting with insults, brutalities, targeted assassinations, hit and run violence, robbery, torture, arson and the likes.

The strategies for fraudulent victory at polls are running side by side with creating and sustaining violence to enable them to declare a “state of emergency”.

Arms and ammunitions that were stockpiled during the PNDC era by courtesy of late Colonel Muammar Al Gaddafi have been augmented and are to be used to protect and prosecute the evil agenda.

The nouveaux-riches in our party are given all the necessary support for ‘operation elect ME’ to continue with the create, loot and share philosophy. But for such an inept and corrupt regime, how could such political neophytes become millionaires in dollar terms within a decade in public service?

Some of these sharp teethed nouveaux-riches persons were not in any gainful employment before the victory in the 2008 elections. Some of them did not have certificates from their universities and were therefore not working. They were saved by the “electoral declaratory victory” of late John Mills to have their certificates in March 2009 and yet today they are among the richest in our nation-state Ghana. 

The victory also helped not fit for nothing members within this community to become rich and powerful by dubious promotions and appointments. 

These persons could now afford to school in the UK while serving as Ministers in Ghana. These persons can afford to fly on expenses first class tickets to and fro London every week to undertake very expensive courses which were and cannot be available to them in Ghana, except on fee-paying basis because of their poor academic performances. Others did not show up for work at all yet they enjoy the juiciest positions in our community today. 

These sharp teethed boys are not shy of their academic deficiencies but wage into mine fields by insulting the competences and qualifications of Prophet for Alhaji Bawumia (a PhD holder of substance not honorary degrees).

It is in the interest of such characters that all efforts are being made to steal the people’s mandate for our leader to continue in office. When former Minister of Transport, Madam Dzifa Ativor says that a victory for NPP means that she and others would go to prison, members of our community should understand why the unlawful commands are being issued and will be on the increase during the December 7, 2016 elections.

Were members of our community surprised that Mr. Ibrahim Mahama was able to commandeer military personnel, armoured vehicles and equipment (arms and ammunitions) for his private political agenda (garnering support for his brother) to enable them to continue share government contracts, money and business opportunities in Ghana. Until 2009, persons who were “nobodies” in Ghana are today “UNTOUCHABLES” in Ghana. What an irony of life!!!

The opportunity costs of the lootings, fraud and dishonesty of all these characters are the sufferings in our communities today. 

Do we get our earned dollar allowances paid in dollars and on time to us when we go for peace support operations under our current leader? The answer is No. 

Did we not experience situations where personnel returned from operations and stayed for weeks before their monies were paid to them in piecemeal? Did we not experience occasions when parts of the earned dollar allowance were paid to members of our community in cedis? Are we not lacking clothing and necessaries under John Mahama? 

Were we not receiving at least two pairs of camouflage dresses and boots each under President Kufour each year? 

In addition to the normal issues, were we mot given two more pairs of the camouflage dress and boots when we were going on peacekeeping operation?

What has happened to all that today under our current leader? When was the last time that, we received camouflage dresses or boots? 

Are we not buying our own Clothing when going on peace-keeping operation?

Where has the money gone to? Our peace Keeping Account in New York is being used for other purposes. These corrupt politicians are riding on our backs. They are “doing business” with our sweats.

They are misapplying and misappropriating our peacekeeping dollars while we suffer shortages of all kinds!!! Should it continue?

Do we have fuel for our vehicles? Our debts with the Oil Companies run into millions of cedis with no sign of abatement. Should that continue? 

We do not have basic office equipment, stationery and consumables. Our PVs are being used for official purchases with inadequate or no replenishment

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Notwithstanding all these injustices meted out to us, the cabals and mafias of our leaders want to use us to keep the corrupt and incompetent leader for another four years. Should we agree? 

Can we tolerate and endure that? No. 

A few of our community members are enjoying at our expense. A few military personnel associated with the crooked administration have been given vehicles, money, land and other property to “die” for Jour current leader. What have most of us received? We have received shame and disrespect.

Was it not shameful for our leader to announce an increment of one dollar to our peacekeeping money per day? Was it not more shameful when the Public Relations Directorate of the Ghana Armed Forces was made to explain to the whole world how much we were earning from our peace keeping operations? 

Was it not after our agitations that there was a turnabout and there was a further four-dollar increase?

Have we received the amount? 

What about the leave allowance of seven hundred dollars ($700)? Has it been paid? 

When will it be paid? What about the in our local pay and allowance? Have they been paid?

What about those increases for our civilian counterparts? Have they received those amounts?

In sum, are these politicians in the ruling party not taking us for a ride?

Why should we allow ourselves to be used by these fraudulent, inept and incompetent members of the ruling party for their selfish ends?

“No, we no go sit down make them cheat us every day!! Walahi” 

LET US ARISE FOR CHANGE!!

LET US BE PART OF THE FORTH COMING POSITIVE CHANGE|!!

LET US RESIST FROM UNLAWFUL COMMANDS.

LET US PROTECT THE PAECE, UNITY AND STABILITY OF OUR DEAR NATION.

LET US REMEMBER THAT IT IS ONLY WHEN WE DEFEND OUR TERRITORIAL SOVEREIGNTY, INTEGRITY, PEACE, UNITY, AND STABILITY THAT WE CAN SHINE IN OUR PROFESSIONS AND BE PROUD OF OURSELVES FOR CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF GHANA AS TRUE PARTNERS.

WE SHOULD THINK OF GHANA FIRST.

ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS MUST BE SECONDARY.

WE SHOULD NOT PLAY SECOND FIDDLE TO THESE SMALL BOYS WHO HAVE BECOME SO ARROGANT AND DISRESPECTFUL BECAUSE OF THEIR ILL-GOTTEN MONEY.

IF THEY ARE TRUE MEN AND WOMEN OF ACOUNTABILIY, PROBITY AND INTEGRITY, THEY SHOULD DECLARE THEIR ASSETS. THEY SHOULD DECLARE ALL THE ASSETS THEY HAVE ACQUIRED IN THE NAME OF FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS AND PROXIES.

THEY SHOULD ALSO BE SINCERE ABOUT THEIR STATUS BEFORE THEY JOINED POLITICS. THEY SHOULD ALSO DECLARE ALL THE WEALTH THEY HAVE SAVED IN FOREIGN BANKS AND ACOUNTS OFFSHORE.

SHAME TO ALL OF THEM!!! NOT ONE OF THEM, FROM THE LEADER DOWNWARDS IS HONEST, CLEAN AND UPRIGHT.

NB: Do we have 120mm Guns at the 66 Artillery Regiment? The last time I checked, GHQ (EME) inspected and declared the 120mm Guns unserviceable….. 

“The CO informed members that all the ceremonial dresses in the Unit were unserviceable…..all the 81mm bombs on his Unit Ledger were manufactured in 1962 and suspected to be unserviceable”-CO 2 Infantry Battalion 

Uncle Obed, over to you

NAVDOCK….are the budgets going there or it is been used for other things?

Resist Unlawful Commands And Arise For Change (1)

Our community has become a critical battle ground for the political war of 7 December 2016 especially between the NDC party and all the other political parties. All the barracks in our security services community have been invaded by the Commander In Chief, his ministers, staffers, advisers, family members, friends, party executives, supporters, faithfuls and sympathizers.

All these associates of our leader are seeking assistance, help, cooperation and support to prosecute their political agenda. Various activities, actions, projects and plans are being undertaken to ensure victory or rather declaration of victory in favor of our leader. As a result, various contacts have been established between commanders of our Security Services at all levels with the political authorities from national through regional to district levels.

Scheduled and impromptu meetings have been taking place between these commanders and the ruling party’s chain of command. In most of these meetings, the appropriate compliant permanent and non-permanent officials of the electoral body have been roped in as willing partners.

Under the guise of national, regional and district Electoral Security Task Forces, these “fit-for-role” meetings have been taking place. Plans are for advanced in ensuring that only security personnel who are very loyal to the ruling party are sent to the classified electoral areas. Various locations have been flagged into green, yellow and red zones. The green zones represent strong holds or comfortable areas for the ruling party.

Yellow Zones represent “swing” areas or “either way” electoral areas. It means those areas could fall for either the ruling party or the largest opposition party. The red zones represent comfortable areas (strong-holds) for the enemy. 

Commanders of all the security services were tasked to assess their subordinates and submit special reports on them. The respective commanders were to indicate against the names of their subordinates their loyalty or otherwise to us. All the infantry Battalions in all the Garrisons were tasked to categorize their troops along those lines. 

This task has been accomplished and the Commanding Officers, the Regional Ministers and District or Municipal Chief Executives have earmarked certain soldiers for special duties in the specific areas-constituencies and electoral areas.

The military Commanders, in particular, and the political leaders have already mapped out their strategies and tactics in order to facilitate ‘rigging’ for us in the rural communities in particular and other areas where opportunities may exist.

Thus, whereas soldiers estimated or assessed to be loyal to our cause would be sent to any of the coloured zones- that is green, yellow and red-those believed to be against us would be made to stay in barracks as part of the stand-by group. These stand-by persons may never have the opportunity to be part of any operation, especially “OPERATION PEACE TRAIL” or “OPERATION ELECTIONS or “OPERATION ELECT US”

Similar or same strategies and tactics have been adopted by the other sister security services.

For instance, Police, Prisons, Fire Service and Immigration personnel for duties on election day at Polling Stations have been carefully selected to ensure that only “loyal personnel” are made to man the Polling Stations, escort electoral and election materials from national through regional to distinct/municipal levels and vice versa. 

The hope is that these security personnel, who would be well armed to the teeth would turn blind eyes to nefarious activities of our members while at the same time would be intimidating and preventing or seeing to the counting and protection of the ballot. 

Thus, as part of the grand agenda of 2016, security personnel from all the Security Services would facilitate rigging for us while at the same time would be denying the opposition parties, the opportunity to maximize their political fortunes.

Some commanders have been shown to and made to fraternize with our ministers, appointees, executive members and agents over the last few months. Rehearsals have been and are being conducted involving officials of our party, EC and security personnel in the already zoned areas.

In the scheme of events, commands, orders and instructions of all kinds would be issued by these non-military personnel to the security personnel. Some of these commands, orders and instructions would be issued directly to the security personnel in the “theatres of war” (electoral battle grounds). 

In other cases, where feasible, commands, orders, instructions and directives would be channeled through the appropriate security chain of command. 

From whatever angle one looks at these commands, orders, instructions or directives emanating from civilians relating to elections and not core military duties, there are possible and probable violations of military customs, traditions, practices and rules of engagement. 

Most of these “orders” would constitute unlawful command.What are or may constitute unlawful commands?

 

Firstly, we may have to know what lawful commands are. The case of the military would be used to explain lawful commands and then be exclusion, unlawful commands would be known.

Disobedience of lawful command is an offence in the military and all security services.

Section 23 of the Armed Forces Act, 1962 provides:

“Every person who disobeys a lawful command of a superior officer shall be guilty of an offence and on conviction shall be liable to imprisonment for life or to any less punishment provided by this Act” 

No charge of disobedience of lawful command will be valid if the command was given by a person below the rank of Lance –Corporal or Lance – Bombardier (Army) Leading Rating (Navy) or Corporal (Air Force). 

The expression ‘Superior Officer” is defined in  Section 98 of the Armed Forces Act, 1962, to mean any officer or man who, in relation to any other officer or man is by that Act, or by regulation or by custom of the appropriate force authorized to give a lawful command to the other officer or man.

It is further stated that a service tribunal should be satisfied, before conviction, that the accused knew that the person with respect to whom the offence prescribed in this section was committed, was a superior officer. If the superior did not wear the insignia of his rank and was not personally known to the accused, evidence would be necessary to show that the accused was otherwise aware that he was his superior officer.

To establish an offence of disobedience of a lawful command, it is necessary to prove non-compliance with a command i.e. disobedience. The disobedience must relate to the time when the command is to be obeyed and may arise from the failure to comply at once with a command which requires prompt and immediate obedience, or a failure to take a proper opportunity to carry out a command which requires compliance sometime in the future. A person must therefore have, and fail to take the opportunity of carrying out command before it is an offence under Section 22 of the Armed Forces Act, 1962.

A command, in order to be lawful must be one relating to military duty i.e. the disobedience of which must tend to impede, delay or prevent a military proceeding. A superior officer has the right to give a command for the purpose of maintaining good order or suppressing a disturbance or for the execution of military duty or regulation or for a purpose connected with the welfare of troops or for any generally accepted details of military life. 

He has no right to take advantage of his military rank to give a command which does not relate to military duty or usage or which has for its sole object the attainment of some private end.

The Armed Forces Act categorically states that a civilian cannot give a “lawful command” to members of the service but it may well be the duty of an officer or man to do the act indicated.

The command must be a lawful one. For example, an officer or man is justified in refusing to bolt away with a ballot box and election materials in order to facilitate rigging by my people if he considers it to be incorrect even if ordered to do so by his Commanding Officer, a Regional Minister or the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission. 

It is clear from the above military illustrations that officers and men may or shall refuse unlawful commands that are related to the conduct of elections themselves and not military duties aimed at ensuring peace and order at the places where elections are taking or have taken place.

Intelligence reports reaching us indicate that “Civilians” and military commanders at all levels of the political and military hierarchy have been compromised to give all sorts of  commands, orders, instructions, directions and directives to security personnel (members of our community) to facilitate rigging for us and effectively deny the largest opposition party and others any opportunities of challenging or resisting these manipulations because we are not done stealing cars and monies meant for end of year parties.

I am calling on all patriotic and nationalistic members of our community to resist all such unlawful commands and to arise for the positive change that is coming or it’s happening already thus no change must happen?

All security personnel must think of Ghana first before any political party- be it that of our Commander-In-Chief or that of Nana Addo’s. We should resist all.

Various forms of unlawful commands are to be given to members of the security services in order to deny impending and well deserved electoral victory for the NPP and its two most popular leaders; Nana Akufo-Addo and Dr. Alhaji Mahamadu Bawumiah, they have been cooked and already to be served to us from the scheme of things.

Members of our community should behave as the pure and fine professionals that they are. They should be truly neutral in the political contests. The members of our Security Services must be and be seen to be independent and impartial in the forthcoming Presidential and Parliamentary Elections.

The independence and impartiality of our security services must be and must be seen to be apparent on individual and institutional basis. That is each and every member of the Security Services must show his independent mind as well as being part of the independence and impartiality of the Security institutions.

Members of the Security Services should act boldly, courageously and professionally without fear or favour.

Even though this state of independence and impartiality of the Security Services and their personnel may be difficult to achieve especially with respect to their heads (such as the CDS, IGP, Director General Prisons, Director Immigration Service, Chief Fire Officer, Chiefs of Army, Naval and Air Staffs, Commissioners of Police, Directors and Assistant Directors of Prisons and Immigration, Director, Deputy Director and Assistant Directors of BNI), the rank and file may be able to maintain the integrity of the Security Services to preserve peace and order in Ghana.

Members of our Security Services should draw on their experiences in our neighboring countries which have witnessed wars occasioned by electoral disputes and struggle for political power.

The nation state Ghana is stronger and more important than any sectional interest. The over ambition of some of our leaders even makes the devil brink.

NB: TO MY ESTATE DEVELOPER GENERAL….I GREET YOU OOOOOO…..IN 2012, 265 VEHICLES WERE ALLOCATED FOR OP PEACE TRAIL, HOW MANY DO WE HAVE THIS YEAR….IS IT LESS OR MORE THAN WHAT WE RECEIVED LAST FOUR YEAR?

EISH…IS IT TRUE THAT OUR NEW DEFENCE ADVISORS AS PER OUR JULY 1 2016 ARE STILL IN TOWN?