Arrest, prosecute, and dead bodies, et al
Hon. Atta Akyea, MP

In recent times, there has been a vile propaganda, stage-managed by some NDC loud-mouths which have reached a very nauseating crescendo that I should be arrested and prosecuted. My crime is only in their imaginations, for they falsely accuse me of arranging to export dead bodies to the Volta Region with the intention of providing the evidential support to impugn the integrity of the election of the good people of the Volta Region.

The tone of those who are pushing this agenda rings of prejudice. Indeed they are whipping tribal sentiments. They seem to be asserting in a rather embarrassing manner that “we have made up our minds do not disturb us with the facts.” In the first place, why should I be arrested when I can be invited and why should I be prosecuted before the facts?

What are the uncontroverted facts: Right after my court appearance to restrain the Electoral Commission from conducting the Tain Election, I retired into the solemn and confidential walls of my law firm. A good number of lawyers sympathetic to the case of the New Patriotic Party joined me.

A political prostitute and a shameless mole of the NDC in the person of Rev. Amaning Kwarteng, in the company of lawyer Obiri Boahene, the then Minister of State for Interior, walked in. Rev. Amaning Kwarteng sat in the meeting like a statute without uttering a word and taped us. He subsequently delivered same to Radio Gold FM station. The tape has been played over and over again to the high heavens.

Ordinary decency and intellectual honesty, should inform the worshippers of the famous tape to give the devil his due. On the contrary, a spin is being put on the tape that we were planning to transport cadavers to the Volta Region to cause mayhem and create electoral problems.

On the tape, I never spoke about dead bodies. It was Honourable Yakubu Malik who said there are rumours that people had died in the Volta Region as a result of electoral violence and if their mortal bodies can be found, a case can be made out of that. This innocuous statement has been given an unfortunate spin that lawyers of our standing are now mortuary men, scheming in my law firm to dump dead bodies in the Volta Region. If you rationally listen to the tape devoid of political biases, it is totally irrational to conclude that any plot was in place to arrange for dead bodies and convey them to the Volta Region.

To the devious, fair is foul and foul is fair so long as he can sell some sleazy propaganda for political advantage and emotive appeasement.

I have heard that my placing of my legal services at the disposal of the NPP by going to court nearly plunged the country into war. I find that argument juvenile and preposterous. How can an invocation of the due process be anarchy? When people resort to the courts to seek legal redress, it simply means they prefer the rule of law to violence. It is only the violent and the anarchist who will not respect the outcome of the due process and may even bastardise the judiciary when judges do not fulfill a political party’s manifesto. In our political fetish, a favourable decision from the judiciary is good, and an unfortunate one is indicative of the fact that the judiciary is bad and probably NPP-controlled inverted logic, indeed.

When the Electoral Commission opined that Tain was the decider, the law-abiding NPP did not pick clubs and assagai to chase NDC members. NPP went to court. If I am a villain because I went court so be it. I am an unrepentant worshipper in the sanctuary of the rule of law even if a decision from a court of law does not meet my expectations.

Vile and wicked propaganda in our politics is holding a lot of well-meaning Ghanaians hostage and it seems to me the powers that be love it so.

I would not have responded to these well-rehearsed lies knowing one cannot placate the devious, especially, in our kind of political environment. My soul is satisfied that a lot of decent people know me that I am not a mortuary man to export corpses to the Volta Region. I can certainly not control the mind of the wicked.

Let me rest my case with a scripture:

“Though I walk on the midst of trouble, you will revive me; you will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and your right hand will save me.” – Psalm 138:7.

Merry Christmas and action New Year.


Hon. Atta Akyea, MP
Abuakwa South