A critical and bothersome aspect of the President\u2019s State of the Nation address is the red alert on which he has placed the security agencies. Red alerts are rarely ordered, limited as it were to only unusually security challenged situations.<\/p>\n
It is a fact that we are not anywhere near such a situation and to issue a presidential fiat suggesting this therefore is irresponsible and inordinate.<\/p>\n
The red alert diktat is an unnecessary matter arising from a speech which widened the political schism in the country even wider. Perhaps, the President would go down in the country\u2019s contemporary political history as the most divisive head of state, a feature vividly shown in his speech.<\/p>\n
While some have ascribed the red alert order to a form of hallucination on the part of the President, others think that he is simply crying wolf when there is not even a cat nearby. It is an interesting order emanating from the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, the man who has the constitutional power to order attack, defence or even withdrawal.<\/p>\n
Such an awesome power at the disposal of one man must be applied carefully because abusing it at the flimsiest of developments not only reduces the importance of such orders but presents the Commander-In-Chief as someone in the mould of a megalomaniac who is easily carried away by the slightest ruffle.<\/p>\n
An \u201call die be die\u201d mantra by a party flag bearer to his constituents to instill the spirit of defending their rights should not have the President ordering his troops to dig trenches as if to hold on to a captured area in a battle.<\/p>\n
When an easily irritated man is given access to the button for activating the bomb, the security of mankind is under serious threat. Ours is not an atomic bomb but a situation which can get out of hand and lead to chain events with negative repercussions on the security of the nation. This is equally sombre and needs reflection by the citizenry.<\/p>\n
If the President can place the security agencies on red alert over such an innocuous \u201call die be die\u201d remark from the NPP flag bearer, Nana Akufo Addo, then he can declare war when an Alassane Ouattara soldier strays into Ghanaian territory.<\/p>\n
Putting our troops on red alert causes more fear and panic than the Nana remark. We have said it before that the politicisation of matters which have become a hallmark of the Mills administration is doing more harm than good in the country. Otherwise, why would the President unleash a pack of hounds to continue to bark over a remark by a political leader?<\/p>\n
It would be interesting to read the minds of the commanders as they deride the red alert order from a man who is savouring his invisible Commander-In-Chief epaulette through such unnecessary red alert orders.<\/p>\n
Let the troops stand down and relax for there is nothing amiss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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