If you lie to a child, you have abused the minds of many generations to come. This has been the evil agenda of the NPP since its formation in 1992. Telling the child
the truth is the only way to set them free. The First Public Tribunals were set
up in 1967 by persons from the “Matemeho” group, the National Liberation
Movement (NLM) that backed the violent coup that overthrew Dr. Kwame Nkrumah on 24th February, 1966 and named the Military Junta the National Liberation Council which was a throwback to the infamous violent tribal grouping National
Liberation Movement.
Hon. Afenyo Markin is only a political kid, a political novice and a rabble rouser always making noise in Parliament and causing
confusion.
After Col. E.K. Kotoka, the Coup Leader was killed during a counter coup in 1967, the first Military Tribunal was set up and it found the Coup Plotters guilty for which they were executed by firing squad.
In Ghana, corrupt high-ranking politicians are never jailed but under the erstwhile
PNDC, these so-called untouchables were all jailed because their huge wealth
could not buy them freedom once they were found guilty beyond reasonable
doubt by those Tribunals hence the attack on the government not to bring back
the Tribunals.
Dear Mr. President, please, ignore them and sign the bill into law.
Come to think of it. Are the Public Tribunals Really Kangaroo Courts?
The erstwhile PNDC government established the Public Tribunals by Decree and used it to deliver true justice which the reactionary forces love to hate. Both the filthy rich men and women were treated equally because one’s wealth could not buy one freedom as it happens in the regular courts.
Tax evaders were heavily punished according to the law and those who suffered most are the very people opposing the Tribunal system today 2026.
In the year 2002, President J. A. Kufuor sat alone in his office and created an
illegal Fast Track High Court and used it to jail the following ministers who
worked under Jerry John Rawlings who he so much hated and even attempted to
destroy his NDC party but failed woefully; (1) Lawyer Tsatsu Tsikata was
illegally jailed in the middle of the case before the fast track high court amidst
heavy security (2) Hon. Victor Selormy was jailed by that court and he died in
prison (3) Hon. Sipper Yankey was jailed (4) Hon. Dan Abodakpi (5) Hon.
Ibrahim Adam (6) Hon. Kwame Peprah and several others who worked under the
late Jerry John Rawlings.
Ex-President J. A. Kufuor did not pass the Fast Truck High Court Bill through Ghana’s Parliament and when the learned Judges who were appointed to sit on the cases reminded him that the court was illegal, he snubbed all of them and used it to jail only his political opponents.
No body threatened the then Attorney-General and his deputy for jailing Rawlings’s former appointees.
But today the deputy Attorney General, Dr. Srem Sai is being threatened after jailing Chairman Wontumi. Why should it be the case?
Kufuor’s ministers were not investigated because he said that his government
will collapse if he investigated his ministers. He is alive and he can testify to this.
Today in 2026, the same man is telling Ghanaians that the NDC should not think
that Ghana belongs to them because of their majority in Parliament.
I do not think the NDC nor any of its leading members ever said Ghana belong to the NDC. It is always leaders and the entire NPP who have been bragging that Ghana belongs to them with their infamous “Yegye yeman” slogan since 1992 and not the NDC.
Therefore, if people like Professor Kwesi Yankah of all people should go all out
to condemn the Public Tribunals which was first established during the “Mate
meho” National Liberation Council era in 1966, the Public must know why Ghana’s history is being re-written. Fact is, the first Tribunals were established by the NLM/UP tradition in Ghana in 1967 long before Rawlings came into Ghana’s politics. NPP’s “jandam” will not work.
Written by Clement Sangaparee, United Cadres Front, Obuasi East
