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Shameless and spineless Yaw Boateng Gyan, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) National Disorganizer has accepted that the voice on the damnable tape was his but he is still walking tall with chest out as if he still commands respect among the good people of this dear country of 24 million souls. Now that the cat is out of the bag what is the president telling Ghanaians as far as his promise of making sure we have a peaceful election is concerned? Mr. Boateng has told us that some NDC goons would be given National Security ID cards, guns and cars to go round the country and cause mayhem and turn around to say it was the result of Nana Addo�s mantra of �all die be die.� When the NDC had their rally at Mantse Agbona, the skinny General Secretary of the NDC and Bui block maker, Johnson Asiedu Nketia told the gathering that the Special Forces which was outdoored sometime ago was just a tip of the iceberg and that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had not seen anything yet. What Yaw Boateng Gyan has said, has gone a long way to prove the fact that the NDC are out for the blood of poor Ghanaians. Boateng the Dracula is on the prowl, ready to suck the blood of the people. Yaw Boateng Gyan is a product of the 31st December Revolution and became the Brong-Ahafo regional boss of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) and so it stands to reason that he has the blood of innocent souls in his hands. A man who served in a revolution that supervised the murder of three High Court judges and a retired military officer can easily do all what he said in the tape. During the hearings of the Special Investigation Board (SIB) set up by Rawlings to look into the murder of the judges and the retired Major, the suspects told Ghanaians that the passes which allowed them to operate during the curfew hours were given to them by Captain Kojo Tsikata, a member of the PNDC. If Mr. Gyan is telling us today that his goons would be given National Security identification cards to enable them to move freely and cause trouble in some parts of the country during the national elections, then I am afraid, history is about to repeat itself, but in a twist. He also promised to issue them brand new cars so that when things go nasty they could easily escape from the scene. This is the same modus operandi of the defunct PNDC. The National Disorganizer was also heard telling the goons that Gbevlo Lartey�s National Security would, at the eleventh hour to the 2012 polls, complain about lack of staff who would be feeding it with vital information. When that comes to pass, Mr. Gyan said the NDC would quickly push the Special Forces members who would be on standby into the National Security for training, so that they could work for the party under the guise of being National Security operatives. Good Lord, this man is blood thirsty and a criminal! This revelation has totally destroyed the National Security outfit because before, during and after the general elections, the outfit�s operatives would be seen as fake and Ghanaians would not accord them any respect. What is more dangerous is that some of them may be lynched when they identify themselves as operatives of the National Security. If Yaw Boateng Gyan is telling us that the bodyguards of the late President Mills were all soldiers who disguised themselves as civilians, then it means those who are guarding President Mahama today are also soldiers in disguise. You see the type of Pandora�s Box that has been opened by this power drunk man from the Brong-Ahafo Region? Mr. Gyan is not intelligent enough. In this era of Information Technology one should not open his mouth so wide when addressing a crowd. This is a man who still foolishly thinks like the revolutionary days, commitment to a course is total. At times like this when people are finding it difficult to get three square meals a day whiles they see people like Gyan ridding luxurious 4�4 cars and living like Epicureans, they can simply be bribed to record proceedings for anyone who can pay more. Since Yaw Boateng Gyan has admitted that the voice in the tape is his, then if anyone who is behind the newly formed National Democratic Party (NDP) is harmed, the blame would be put on the doorsteps of Yaw Boateng Gyan. If you belong to a political party and I also belong to a different one, why are you monitoring me if you don�t mean evil? Anyway, why is the NDC so much concerned about the activities of the NDP? When the President addressed the nation recently on his Policy Statement, he never minced words when it came to his intention to fight corruption. What we heard Yaw Boateng telling the goons is a clear case of corruption which needs investigation. Hear him: �I once contacted the Minister of Finance, Dr. Kwabena Duffour for funds to support the recruitment exercise. When they gave me the money and I was leaving, it was the finance minister himself who called me and called the finance director, and told him that, �as for you, you always come here talking about somebody, you have never spoken about yourself.� So I said I have some boys I am working with but now it is hard getting them planted. So he said, �Ok, bring this and let me get some money for you so that you can give it to them.� This is the self-confession of a man who has been dipping his hands in the national coffers for party work. What is President Mahama telling Ghanaians? Will he ever have the moral right to stand on the high moral grounds to preach against corruption? No wonder fingers have started pointing at him, accusing him of tainting his hands with corruption. Ah, so in the Mahama administration, the finance minister can easily pay out money to the national organizer of the ruling party without the knowledge of the president? And what is the guarantee that Yaw Boateng Gyan could not pocket the money given to him instead of giving the money to his so called boys? Yaw Boateng Gyan has no shame in his lexicon. Other than that, he should have resigned immediately. As for Dr. Kwabena Duffour, history will not be happy with him as a Finance Minister of Ghana who gave the people�s money and dolled some of the booty out to a national organizer of the ruling political party to be given to party goons to kill Ghanaians. Dr. Duffour should remember that he cannot continue to dye his hair forever. One day he will be too old to use hair dye. In other words, one day he will retire from active service. That is when he will realize that whatever goes up comes down. He should begin to think how generations yet unborn will treat him, even when he is dead and gone. For now, he can do whatever he wants to do with the national kitty but the days of reckoning will surely come one day. But come to think of this: why is the BNI silent about Yaw Boateng Gyan�s action? When the MP for Assin North, Kennedy Agyapong, declared �war,� he was quickly picked up, detained and later charged to court but when Osama Bin Yaw Boateng Gyan planned to arm hooligans to kill innocent people in this country, he is walking free. My fear is that if care is not taken, people are going to arm themselves in anticipation of war. Indeed, opposition political parties may be planning to form parallel security forces to counter any threat by Yaw Boateng�s terror network. I had cause to write in this column sometime ago that the people of America did not wake up one morning to see people with pistols in holsters hanging on their waists. The people of America decided to arm themselves because they felt they were not secured as a result of the inability of the government to guarantee their safety. Cowboys were on rampage, stealing and maiming people at random and so people decided to arm themselves in anticipation of an attack. Yaw Boateng Gyan is teaching us similar lessons. In other words he is telling us to arm ourselves for a showdown since he and his goons are prepared for the show. On a more serious note I really pity these goons who were at the gathering where Yaw Boateng Gyan spewed out the rot. They should have asked Yaw Boateng to bring one of his sons to join them anytime they were assigned to go out there and fight, or simply, kill people. When they complained of their old vehicle which they used for their operations, they should have gone out to see the type of car the man was using and may be, visit his house to see how he lives with his wife and children. Young men in this country should see people like Yaw Boateng Gyan as dishonest self-seeking politicians who have nothing good to offer them. Undoubtedly, the man who is arming people is fabulously rich and wants to protect his wealth. He knows that when the NDC loses power he will not get what he is getting today, so if even people should die for him to continue enjoying, so be it. That is Yaw Boateng Gyan, the Taliban terrorist for you.