The National Democratic Congress’s (NDC’s) “reset agenda” may be facing its hardest truth yet.
Back in opposition, they pushed narratives they assumed would appeal to an electorate.
In the run-up to the elections, the NDC launched its ‘ORAL’ campaign—an attempt to portray Nana Addo and the NPP as looters of state assets and finances.
The promise was simple: vote for us, and we will recover everything that has been stolen.
This rhetoric resonated with many disillusioned youths, who admired the bold, nationalistic tone.
Once in power, the NDC attempted to maintain the illusion that ORAL was a serious matter.
They established a quasi-committee to collect public complaints regarding alleged corruption.
That is where the cracks began to show. If the NDC truly meant business, they would have leveraged the full powers of government—accessing actual documents, verifying evidence, and building strong legal cases.
Instead, they opened the gates to hearsay, anonymous allegations, and political witch-hunts.
They ended up with over 2,000 reports, mostly public opinion pieces masquerading as criminal complaints.
ORAL quickly began to resemble a military-era court-martial: accusations were accepted as facts, there was no due process, and there was a total disregard for the rule of law.
The NDC’s distrust of the judicial system became glaring.
It was all noise during the campaign, and now they were scrambling to act as if they were following through.
Those thousands of “cases’ were handed over to the Attorney General, who, disappointingly, has also fallen prey to the propaganda trap.
Out of all those allegations, only one is gaining traction, and the individual involved is not even a notable figure in the NPP.
Yet the government attempted to weaponise the media to impose a predetermined narrative of guilt—an affront to legal standards and public intelligence.
The A-G, once respected, now seems to blur the line between law and political theatre. And now, the NDC is backed into a corner. ORAL was never about justice—it was a tool used to gain and maintain power.
Ghana deserves better. We are still far from where we need to be.
Isaac Ofori,
Social Activist and Human Rights Advocate.
E-mail: [email protected]