“Evil Never Wins!” | Features

In the heat of the 1979/1981 coups, some people took the law into their own hands and killed innocent people. Indeed, there are reported cases of some settling personal scores by killing others.

While some are known to have died of strange disease, others are said to have gone mad, or both! For those who are alive, like the killers of the bank manager in Kumasi, they may have escaped the law! But they will never escape Nature's justice. Even if they appear to live normal lives, one wonders how they sleep at night with their consciences, with the blood on their hands.

Putting the two episodes together, Ghanaians are urged to note that, in Chaucer's words, “greed or the love of money is the root of all evil,” and that a good name is better than rich. The young man in Episode One died in his mid-thirties without money, but with a great legacy. The rich men in Kumasi who committed murder as well as their accomplishments all died miserable deaths, with their families permanently disgraced.

Let us remember Mahatma Gandhi's quote that, “there is enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.”

Martin Luther King said in 1968 that, “the arc of the moral universe might be long, but it still bends towards justice!” As simply put by the Ghanaian musician Akwasi Ampofo Adjei (Mr AAA), “if you do good, you do for yourself. If you do bad, you do for yourself!”

Evil does not triumph in the final analysis. In the end, evil never wins!

Leadership, leadership!

Fellow Ghanaians, WAKE UP!

Brig Gen Dan Frimpong (Rtd)

Former CEO, African Peace Support Trainers Association

Nairobi, Kenya

Council Chairman

Family Health University College,

Accra

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