Two pressure groups, Fixing The Country Movement and Patriotic Troopers, Ghana have announced a decision to organise a counter-demonstration against the protest by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over the voters register for the 2024 general elections.
A joint statement issued by the two groups stated that they are appalled at the manner in which the Electoral Commission (EC) has come under attack in recent times.
The NDC is set to hold a demonstration against the Electoral Commission on Tuesday, September 17. The Accra Regional Police Command has agreed to the proposed route and termination point for the protest.
This protest, according to the NDC, aims to address the commission’s refusal to conduct a forensic audit of the voters register for the upcoming December polls.
National Chairman of the NDC Johnson Asiedu Nketia cited the lack of transparency and the resulting suspicions as key reasons for the demonstration.
But portions of the statement issued by the Fixing The Country Movement and Patritocic Troopers, Ghana said “These attacks emanating from the stables of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) suggest that the EC is on a mission to rig the 2024 general elections in favour of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). When Johnson Asiedu Nkentiah stood on an NDC campaign platform and called on his partisan followers to go out on the street and demonstrate against the electoral commission on September 17, he was actually making a mockery of the our democracy. And when the NDC flagbearer, John Mahama reiterated this call by urging his party membership to go and demonstrate at the offices of the EC, he was being disingenuous and dishonourablem.”
Below is the full statement…
Joint Public Statement by Fixing The Country Movement and Patriotic Troopers, Ghana
For Immediate Release
Notice of Mass Action on September 17, 2024 against NDC bastardization of the EC
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Fixing the Country Movement and Patriotic Troopers of Ghana are appalled at the manner the Electoral Commission (EC) has come under attack in recent times.
These attacks emanating from the stables of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) suggest that the EC is on a mission to rig the 2024 general elections in favour of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
When Johnson Asiedu Nkentiah stood on an NDC campaign platform and called on his partisan followers to go out on the street and demonstrate against the electoral commission on September 17, he was actually making a mockery of the our democracy.
And when the NDC flagbearer, John Mahama reiterated this call by urging his party membership to go and demonstrate at the offices of the EC, he was being disingenuous and dishonourable.
In fact, it is quite clear that the call by the NDC for forensic examination of all the voter roll is borne out of the party’s attempt to bastadize the commission.
Of course, the propaganda machinery of the opposition NDC has devolved into a pointless internecine politics of attrition.
So much that, even the inquisitiveness of our traditional party politics have been circumscribed by the unwarranted presumption that propaganda is the way out.
It is therefore no wonder to have woken up to yet another dose of NDC’s mind management tactic of creating a discursive regime of the inevitability of its propagandist politics with this clear attempt to destabilise the EC.
In the light of the above, Fixing the Country Movement and Patriotic Troopers are organising a counter-demonstration on September 17, to drum home the point that the EC is being targeted by the NDC unfairly and unduly.
We’re by this public statement issuing a notice public action on the same day that the NDC is organising theirs – we are leading a citizens coalition for mass action to condemn the NDC’s Communist tactics.
We also call on peace loving Ghanaians to join hands with the Fixing the Country Movement and Patriotic Troopers to send a clear message to the NDC that enough is enough.
As trusting citizens, it is our collective responsibility to put the country first and stand up against saboteurs.
It is truly beyond comprehension that the NDC is so poorly led that Mahama is able to get away with such loose talks and disrespect for our institutions of democracy.
Truly, the NDC has a notoriety for black propaganda and this is one of their antiquated antics. Indeed, this their latest propaganda could very well amount to dancing themselves lame in rehearsals for a dancing contest they may not eventually take part in.
The NDC and Mahama remains clear and present danger to our democracy.
In actual fact, the NDC’s desperate bid to grab power using subterfuge is the reason they are targeting the EC.
They have been at it, and it has been ineffective over the course of time, and yet they have failed to learn the right lessons. They have been employing lies and dirty propaganda as well as well rehearsed jaundiced strategies to win elections but it has always ended in absolute turmoil.
Mahama, and his enablers have not changed one bit. Given the chance, they’ll roll back decades of progress made on diversity in our political system — and it’s reflective of the kinds of limited perspectives and experiences they welcome on everyday public conversations.
Let’s speak out against Mahama’s demonstrated danger to our democracy.
We have to stop these group of ideologues who obviously have nothing to offer this country. Ghanaians must be weary of Mahama and his silly little idealistic weirdos who want to turn this country into 21st Century Communist State.
Signed:
Ernest Kofi Owusu-Bempah Bonsu (Convener – Fixing the Country Movement)
Moses Abbor – Convener-
(Patriotic Troopers, Ghana)
