Letter to the Speaker.

Byline: Godwin Yaw Agboka

Government is not being unfair to ex-President Kufuor BUT...

Witch-hunting! Witch-hunting! Witch-hunting! That is the rejuvenated term in Ghanaian political circles. Under the NPP administration, the NDC faulted and accused the Kufuor-led government of harassing and falsely prosecuting its members for crimes, it claimed, its officials did not commit. The NPP has lately found solace in the term to also make the case that its members are being hounded by the Mills-led government. Interesting times!

We have all been witnesses to the recent cases involving Asamoah Boateng, Kwadwo Mpiani, Akwasi Osei-Adjei, among a host of others, all of whom have made similar cases of political harassment. Given what we know, we can make the case that the game has just started. Many NPP officials will cry foul in this game of "you-do-me-I do-you" politics that has engulfed our young political process-that is not to say that some of the reasons for which opposition elements have been brought before state institutions or for which they have been prosecuted have not been legitimate. If you asked me, many have been legitimate and many others have been calculated to politically humiliate opposition elements.

I have argued once-and I still do-that people have to be made accountable for their actions either during or after their services to the nation; more so, I have said elsewhere that just because some action(s) was/were right …