Dear Kojo Yankah: Thank you! Thank you for voicing sentiments that majority of Ghanaians have voiced since this Ken Ofori-Atta saga began! Ken Ofori-Atta MUST come home.
Two synonyms for home are SHELTER and REFUGE.
So, which home are you hoping Kenneth returns to? Ghana today? The “home” that neither resembles a shelter nor a refuge, created by your PNDC-NDC compatriots, in which the PNDC’s “buga-buga” modi operandi and abuse of due process are the order of the day?
A home in which the sitting government raided Ofori-Atta’s residence with 14-armed soldiers, policemen, and national security operatives without a search warrant?
A home in which the Police, Military and Intelligence bosses, ignored Ken Ofori-Atta’s formal complaints to them about the raid? Thirteen months on? Silence.
A home in which an Attorney General, otherwise known as Minister for Justice, gleefully boasted on live television, that he sidestepped due process to have American Security agencies arrest and hopefully deport Ken Ofori-Atta?
A home in which the Minister of Government Communications, shamefully confirmed, also on live TV, that short-circuiting due process was crucial because “extradition process may take too long?”
A home in which the vile rhetoric and shameful venom spewed by leading Government Officials is as shocking as it is pathetic?
The Pro-Max version of “home” that exists today, under whose government’s auspices Ken Ofori-Atta has been subjected to the most unjust, unfair experiences?
A month ago, INTERPOL deleted the Red Notice Alert on Mr Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori – Atta sponsored by the Office of The Special Persecutor.
The CCF decision clearly stated that the charges Mr. Ofori-Atta are being sought for are political in colour and bear no coherence to the claims the Office of the Special Persecutor had made.
So, Mr Yankah, do invite, Mr Ofori-Atta back home, but arm yourself with the facts that may have led him to the decision he has taken.
As one of Ghana’s foremost journalists, you lost your voice through the blazing heights of the political persecution Ken Ofori-Atta has been subjected to this past year.
Never once have you written an article to your NDC compatriots to follow due process or to let the Rule of Law prevail. Never once, have you dispensed advice on any platform to those who have made maligning, demeaning, disgracing Ken Ofori-Atta an Olympic Sport.
Two weeks ago, Ken Ofori-Atta’s photograph was shockingly brandished by NDC Members of Parliament during a sitting on the budget, with descriptions of him as a “runaway”? In Parliament? At “home?” In that sacred bastion of our democracy, where you once served as NDC MP for Agona East for two consecutive terms?
This shameful spectacle featured a man who has not yet been served with any summons. A man who has not been found guilty of any crime.
Yet even then you remained silent. Your time as Daily Graphic Editor under PNDC Chairman J.J. Rawlings seems to have truly toughened you.
So, dear Mr Yankah, as a senior statesman, focus on the reasons why Ken Ofori-Atta has taken the decision his lawyers allude to.
Focus on the political persecution Ken Ofori-Atta has been subjected to at the hands of his “home” government. And please, please stop pretending that some paradise awaits Ken Ofori-Atta at “home” that he has ungraciously turned down!
Moreover, if virtual court hearings are acceptable in our day and age, it is only fair that those who accuse Ken Ofori-Atta of cowardice equally demonstrate their understanding of DUE PROCESS.
Finally, in your quiet moments, ask yourself why a proud Ghanaian like Ken Ofori-Atta, whose life story reads like a Ghanaian Patriot’s Handbook, and who even flies a Ghana flag in front of his HOME, would want to make the United States of America his shelter and refuge.
Sincerely yours,
G.A. Agbesinyale
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