Justice delayed is justice denied.

Some months past, when George Floyd was strangled to death, my mother Ghana become Chief Mourners.

Ghanaians including the Government of Ghana (GoG) joined a global campaign including #BlackLivesMatter, #JusticesForFloyd #EveryLifeMatter etc. As a nation we have joined cords with many other nations to seek for justice for either innocent lives lost or cruel treatments meted out to any individual or a group of people anywhere around the global village.

The GoG under the stewardship of the Commander In Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, His Imperial Majesty; His Excellency the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo organized a state sponsored memorial in honor of George Floyd.

The event, even though received severe backlash from many Ghanaians due to the huge amount of money purported to have been spent, the President "collected his name" as he was recognized by several global media outlets and acknowledged at the main funeral ceremony of Floyd.

Fast forward, on the 7th of December 2020, Ghanaians went to the polls to exercise one of their essential fundamental human rights, to exercise their franchise; to decide who leads them in the next four years.

Along the process, Five (5) individuals who were unarmed Ghanaian citizens were SHOT DEAD by Ghanaian Military. Their offence is that they wanted to protect their sovereign rights and make sure their voices are heard through the ballot counts.

Worrisomely, it seems these souls are not enough to be lost so to demand for outright justice.

As I write, not even the Government of Ghana or the President who thought it wise to organize a memorial for one single soul lost far away in the United States has uttered a single word over this disturbing circumstance.

We have a lazy group called National Peace Council, Ghana who are behaving like everything is normal, shamelessly preaching peace without seeking justice.

The least said about the media the better. This is the only time the Ghana Journalists Association has found their loud voice to bemoan over attacks but have remained deaf and dumb when time past their members were physically assaulted under this same government. The media has done absolutely nothing to seek for justice for these 5 Ghanaians whose only crime was to protect their votes. For biases of the media, you may be my guest.

We equally have a charade of Ghanaian populace who unfortunately describe themselves as NEUTRALS. They are everywhere jumping and singing praises that this elections has been the most peaceful, free and fair. Perhaps, when their relative becomes a victim of such selective injustice, they'd speak out, until then let's accept them sitting on the fence but with interests.

Brothers and Sisters, our nation, without any modicum of doubt is set on the path of retrogression and backwardness.

Just like the George Owens Animals Farm, some humans are more human than others, some are more Ghanaians than others depending on which part of the country you hail from, which tribe you belong to, who you know and on which side of the political divide you are aligned to.

Martin Luther King was right to have said , "those who allow evil to go only become accomplices to it".

But the day of reckoning is far approached. The people shall rise and seek for justice by whichever means possible and available to them and its denouement may be such that we can not anticipate as a nation..

Justice delayed is justice denied!!!

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