The only time the cowardliness in a bully manifests itself is when the bullied stands up and confronts the bully with all his might and mind. It is said that when the oppressed does not resist oppression, the oppressor tends to think that the oppressed relishes being oppressed.

I am told that when the West African Frontier Force were dragged into what has become a world war, they least expected that the white colonial master was also after all, a human whose body could be penetrated by the very bullet and the gun powder  he had used to continue to oppress the natives.

At the Burma war, natives who had been drafted into the colonial army saw their masters being mowed down by guns from their opponents in the war, when these same people, that is the colonial masters, had used their hitherto fire power to bully the natives into submission and acquiescence. But the experience of the natives at the world war exposed the belief that the colonial masters were invincible.

It is this new knowledge of the colonial master which encouraged our forebears to protest against the colonial masters and later embarked upon a demonstration to the seat of government, where three veterans of the world war were shot dead.

The cowardly act of the colonial masters incensed the citizenry and created an ungovernable situation in the then Gold Coast, which culminated in the attainment of independence for this nation.

So who said that confronting your oppressor, having at the back of your mind that he is capable of doing anything, and you the oppressed , ready to free yourself forever, dead or alive, does not yield results?

It does; even when those at the forefront of that resistance end up losing their lives, they do so for the benefit of generations yet to be born.

This nation has had the misfortune of being led by bloody oppressors for a long period. The latest of such barbaric oppressors and unbridled despots has been Flt. Lt Jerry John Rawlings, who took this country to the highest level of brutality in the name of a revolution.

Those who still refer to the treasonable coup de tat of 1981 as a revolution and nurtured it to grow and fester should now revise their definition of what a revolution actually is.

What has happened in Tunisia and Egypt in particular, should make the intellectuals in this country who left their lecture halls and other more dignifying places of work to join in the murders and envious seizure of peoples' property, bow their heads in shame.

They only supported a junior officer in the army who felt that the only way to run away from poverty was to subvert the constitution of this country in the night, with the knowledge that he could die in the process.

But he went ahead, obviously with the slogan, 'all die be die'. Of course, he did not die but succeeded.

First, it is important that Ghanaians disabuse their minds of the cowardly propaganda emanating from the NDC to the effect that Nana Akufo-Addo is a war monger who wants to create chaos in this country.

As a young man, Nana Addo joined others to fight dictatorship in this country in 1992 when the NDC used both intimidation and subterfuge to rig the Presidential elections which necessitated the boycott of the Parliamentary elections.

Nana Akufo-Addo, who was then the campaign manager of the late Professor Albert Adu Boahene (may his soul rest in peace), the then flag-bearer of the NPP, did not advocate violence even though the evidence of rigging, intimidation and brutalization of the members of the other parties by the NDC were overwhelming.

Instead, Nana Akufo-Addo and other members of the party related their evidence of fraud and mass intimidation in a book which was christened 'The Stolen Verdict'.

It was the first time in the history of African politics that the opposition party, which felt cheated and intimidated in a general election, had put their observations on paper rather than organize themselves in the bush and start fighting their way into the capital to take control of power.

In the last elections in which Nana Akufo-Addo was the Presidential candidate for the NPP, he lost by a whisker, which in itself was the outcome of intimidation and brutalization of NPP supporters and assigns in addition to plain stealing.

Nana Akufo-Addo, true to his election promise that he would rather not be a President if being a President required that a drop of blood of any Ghanaian be lost, conceded defeat to Prof. J.E.A Mills in an election which the world did not believe would go the way of the NDC, all the brutalization of NPP activists notwithstanding.

The post 2008 general elections saw a number of attacks on some ordinary Ghanaians whose only crimes were that they were known NPP activists; some were chased away while others were gruesomely murdered by agents of blood thirsty NDC.

The events of Akwatia, where NPP big shots were brazenly beaten up and their vehicles vandalized in the presence of the security agencies, is very much known to all.

The open display of crude barbarism in Chereponi, where NDC goons shot at NPP supporters, some of whom, but for the intervention of Professor Frimpong Boateng, would have lost their lives, is also known to the world.

The Atiwa bye-elections, which saw young NPP members ran over by a Togolese migrants seeking succour and solace under the umbrella, is also there for all to see.

In all these acts of brutalities, the security agencies turned a blind eye and allowed other Ghanaians to be at the mercy of their fellow Ghanaians. As Ghanaians, we should not be hypocritical about the 'all die be die' statement of Nana Akufo- Addo. In our homes, we say it every day.

When your child goes out there to play, and comes home crying because someone has beaten him, you calm him down and ask him to forget about the incidence. If it happens a third or fourth time, you encourage your child to hit back anytime any of his colleagues hit him or her.

This does not make the parent a violent parent, it is simply that you train the child not to allow himself to be intimidated and brutalized by his peers each time they meet to play.

The NDC was born out of violence. Rawlings had threatened that Ghana would burn should anyone come his way during his murderous coup of 1981.

Intimidation, brutalization, extra judicial killings, seizure of people's property and outright blackmail have been the hallmark of antecedents of the NDC.

Prof. Atta Mills himself is a product of blatant intimidation and brutalization of other NDC members. In the year 2002 at the University of Ghana, Legon Cafeteria, supporters of Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, who was contesting the flag-bearer position of the NDC alongside Prof. Atta Mills, was hounded as if he was a stranger in the party. Some of his supporters were beaten up mercilessly.

Koforidua saw another mayhem being visited on NDC supporters simply because those people were against Prof. Atta Mills.

The last elections which made Egya Atta the President of this country witnessed a lot of brutalities against NPP people, particularly in the Volta Region where a whole medical doctor in the person of Dr. Seth Ohene had one of his eyes virtually scooped out of its socket.

Even under Egya Atta, his foot- soldiers are chasing away people he as the President of this country has appointed, out of their offices, and yet he is too impotent to deal with the hooligans.

Indeed, Egya Atta has empowered those hooligans by saying that their actions are expressions of their frustrations and protests as it were, against joblessness and other difficulties.

Who is more violent in his demeanour, Nana Akufo-Addo the courageous or Prof. Atta Mills the supine submissive beneficiary of all that violence can offer a man.

The President who presides over the taunting and chasing away of his appointees by criminals wearing NDC t- shirts and covered in rain or shine by the umbrella can certainly not be an 'asomdwoe' man; he connives and condones the use of violence to achieve political goals.

Nana Akufo-Addo is just telling the victims of NDC intimidations and brutalities that it should not happen again and that 'All Die Be Dieeeeeeeee'.

Those who have ears, let them hear. I will be at the forefront supplying mahogany bitters.

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