Impervious To Propaganda

 

The AirMed brouhaha remains a negative necklace festooned around the neck of government.

It has so far refused to respond to the flimsy responses from government and its related agencies, including hired non-neutral civil society organisations (CSOs).

The more they wriggle to extricate themselves from the quicksand they are in, the more they get stuck, their remaining integrity fading by the hour.

The Government Spokesperson, on his part, must seek the support of a PR consultant to assist him surmount the obstacles he continues to face as he directs the nozzle of water to the raging integrity inferno.

Maybe he must be pitied because it is near impossible to defend a lie consistently.

Only those the gods have cast a spell on would attempt claiming one of the suspicious aircraft suffered a tyre puncture midair. Perhaps there were potholes on the flight path from the Gran Canaria to Kotoka International Airport (KIA). Chai! is an appropriate Igbo exclamation we would express under the circumstances.

So far, the direct insults have failed to push the subject to the backburner.

Whatever happened to the President’s directive for a probe into the subject?

The President, in his wisdom following the exposé on the two aircraft and the associated allegations that they could be engaged in illicit drug trafficking and money laundering, directed that the relevant state investigative bodies engage with the Honourable Member of Parliament (MP) John Ntim Fordjour, the source of the exposé, to probe the subject.

Rather than comply with the President’s directive, the Honourable MP is being verbally abused. As we compile this commentary, unconfirmed social media posts suggest that his residence has become the latest subject of a raid by state security agencies.

The Government Spokesperson is reported to have said that were he the President, he would not have responded to the allegations the way he did. Fortunately, he is not the President and would just have to carry on messing himself up with defences which cannot protect him from the direct hits from his discerning compatriots watching from the Observation Posts with their binoculars.

Without such engagements with the Assin South MP to establish the truth or otherwise of the allegations, we struggle to determine the basis for the Government Spokesperson’s denial of the allegations.

Until another scandal pops up to overshadow this, it would remain in its position on the chart of infamy.

We have taken notice of the insults being hurled by social media activists on the stipend roll of government.

These vitriolic interventions are making the story sink in the more and inflicting more bruises on the image of government.

A feature of intolerance is joining the others on the image of government.

None of the minders of government has thought of alternatives to insults, hence their preference for the latter which is not inuring to their interests at this stage of the cocaine brouhaha.

Given the delay so far in responding to the President’s directive for the probe of the allegation, we doubt whether it would ever be.

The Ghana Airports Company Limited management has issued a statement on the subject. While the correspondence sounds cheap and possibly authored by one of the appointees dealing with the subject, there are other blemishes in it worthy of tackling.

We shall return.

 

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