NDC founder member shares experience of intolerance
Political intolerance in Ghana is as a result of the poverty and the ignorance of the people that big men prey on to their advantage.
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Poverty makes some Ghanaians susceptible to the deceit fed them by big men, who give them handouts and encourage them to act irrationally.
The people who receive the handouts do not analyse the consequences of the actions they are pushed to take on the society and themselves.
These are some of the statements by a founder member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Samuel Tetteh, who is a victim of such political intolerance when the rear windshields of his two Nissan Patrol vehicles were smashed by an unknown person.
Incident
The engineer and entrepreneur was walking briskly along the highway from Tantra Hill Roundabout to the Ofankor Roundabout on December 1, 2015.
“As I reached the VVIP bus stop around Ofankor, I saw an old lady standing on the pavement. She had just alighted from a bus and was trying to properly tie her slit, with her luggage by her side on the pavement,” he said.
Just then, Mr Tetteh said, he saw a taxi driver driving dangerously along the pavement towards the lady to make a detour to Sowutuom.
Mr Tetteh said he immediately told the driver to stop driving along the pavement as that was not right. He reminded the driver that such indiscipline contributed to the general decadence in the society.
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At his words, the driver poked his head through his window and shouted at him.
The driver told him not to talk at all because he knew him and his alliance with President John Mahama, with whom he had invaded the headquarters of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
“We know your house and you will see! We know that you have been given cars for the campaign, you will see,” the driver threatened.
Mr Tetteh said he walked quietly away, back to his office, between the Ofankor Roundabout and the Tantra Hill Roundabout, closed for the day and walked to his home, which is close by.
He said the next day, on reaching the office at about 9 a.m., he noticed that the rear shields of his two Nissan Patrols had been smashed.
He immediately called in the police from the Mile 7 Police Station, who embarked on their investigations, including interviewing hawkers and some taxi drivers in the area. However, no leads were found.
Mr Tetteh said the police were of the view that the instrument used in smashing his vehicles was brought to the scene and taken away after the act.
No apologies
Mr Tetteh said he had no apologies for his affiliation with the NDC party.
He said he had, out of his own resources, provided for the establishment of the party offices for the Ga North and Ga South constituencies of the party in 1992. However, he had not flaunted his affiliation in anyway.
Mr Tetteh said he had declined overtures for him to take up political office because he had a profession and wanted to concentrate on that.
He said from his work as an engineer all over Ghana, he had acquired his two Nissan Patrol vehicles that had been registered in 2005, during the tenure of President John Kufuor.
It was, therefore, wrong for anyone to hold the view that his vehicles had been given to him for political campaigns for the 2016 general election.
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Mr Tetteh said he believed in the vengeance of God, hence he had left the matter to the conscience of the driver who committed the crime and to God.