Bature Must Be called To Order

I wish to register my indignation at Alhaji Bature, a discredited and
tainted NDC activist who went on Adom FM, a private radio station in Accra
on Wednesday 8th September 2010 and cast aspersions at the personality of
former President Rawlings.

Alhaji Bature stated in his radio interview that, Rawlings has been
defeated. ³We have defeated him and we will take him on anytime he speaks.²
Should Alhaji Bature¹s populist brand of political rhetoric go unchallenged?
Would these shenanigans go any way to heal the old wounds between the
President and former President Rawlings? Do we take Bature¹s comment as an
official position of government? Who are the ³we² that Bature talked about?
Was there any battle that Mr Rawlings lost?

I find Bature¹s belligerence, and his utterances on our party founder, to be
very reckless and we are convinced that such unprovoked attack on the former
president could only be part of that grand scheme orchestrated by President
Mills to once again ridicule the party founder.

This level of inept wanton folly beats our imagination and we want to state
categorically that, President Mills and his close associates are behind this
ridicule to discredit agenda against Mr Rawlings.

Why is it acceptable for some Mills loyalists, to treat Jerry Rawlings as a
fugitive in his own party, yet see the scrutiny of John Mills, an ³alien² in
the NDC, as a taboo?
We have been fooled to believe in a heaven on earth, by promises of better
Ghana, when social misery, undeniably, remains the same, if not worse. Yet
government is obsessed with the Rawlings¹ and their sense of criticism is
only limited to tearing the Rawlings¹ apart.

This level of inept wanton folly beats my imagination and I want to state
categorically that, President Mills and his close associates are behind this
agenda to ridicule and discredit Mr Rawlings.

Well-meaning followers of the NDC Founder are sending a signal to all those
clowns around President Mills who constantly spew a bunch of wheat due to
ignorance in an attempt to make us believe that Mills is the best thing that
ever happened to the NDC to be weary of the repercussions of their unguarded
attacks on the former president!

While democracy offers us the window to communicate our views on any subject
matter, it does not allow incendiary provocations. The NDC cannot afford the
cost of any human folly that could be misread, as a threat, and incite
violence. Can we blame the victim, and the embattled, for deploying
legitimate violence to defend himself, and his family? Even under
International Law, states have the right to adopt pre-emption, as a
necessity, to suppress threats to their security.
Even after several months of silence, Mr Rawlings is being drawn into
unprovoked attack by the likes of Bature who have completely lost it. Bature
is just one of the many wretched comedians and among a bunch of noisy
ducklings who have lost touch with reality and would sell their integrity to
pretence in order to protect the status quo and their long pockets.

No sane person who is clear in his/her mind will say that you have defeated
Rawlings when indeed there was no battle. Bature¹s comments have portrayed
him as a loose talker who does not exercise discretion in the public domain.
It is this same Bature who warned Mr Rawlings of serious consequences if he
does not stop criticizing President Mills and before we could say Jack, fire
gutted the residence of the former president on that fateful day of February
14th 2010

We have therefore taken Bature¹s folly as another threat on the Rawlings¹
and we will employ and deploy all legitimate violence to protect the former
First Family.

SIGNED BY
DELA COFFIE
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