The Peoples Daily Graphic editorial on the Workers Defence Committee executives (Talking Drums, November 26, 1984) is disgusting. The Graphic states that the majority of the WDC executives in a number of organisations have acquired bourgeois life- styles and have caused the nation to lose millions of cedis; frustrated dedicated management and recommends that the PNDC government should bring all to book.

The view of the Graphic implies that the ‘dedicated management’ should now be re-instated while bringing the WDC executives to book, but it is well known that the Peoples Daily Graphic itself had previously extolled to the skies the concept and functions of the WDCS which have terrorized professionally qualified management personnel in Ghana into exile.

When Rawlings thought, on 31st December, 1981, that he had colonised Ghana, he proclaimed at the height of his wild imagination that he was prepared to face the firing squad if the people of Ghana did not approve of what he was going to do for the country.

In his ignorance, Rawlings, aided by his cousins, unleashed monstrous terror, murder, executions, torture and intimidation on the peace loving people of Ghana and formed the so-called WDCS to harass qualified and experienced management personnel in all sectors of the economy to the detriment of Ghana’s development efforts. These are the atrocities and wicked acts which Rawlings had in mind.

Highly qualified and experienced Ghanaians who have left the country recount horrible experiences in the course of their work under the so- called PNDC Government. In particular, they were unable to enforce discipline in their respective organisations without incurring the displeasure of the executive members of the WDC who had direct line of communication with the political bosses.

In a management situation of such nature, there is bound to be confusion and apathy resulting in low productivity, in that discipline is a concomitant of efficiency which is an indispensable element for reliable services and productive efforts. It is surprising that the Peoples Daily Graphic which had hitherto been a bulwark of the WDC organisation and Method (O&M) is now disillusioned, because the executive members have tasted power and are now living properly.

One should not lose sight of the fact that it is Rawlings and his mentors who introduced alien practices into Ghana. and turned the country upside down and not the notorious sycophants who are adept in hood-winking even colonels and generals in military regimes in Ghana for their selfish interest. Since the WDC philosophy was imported into Ghana by Rawlings and his gang in the first instance, they rather should be held fully responsible for the destruction of our father land.

In any case, all the PNDC members, secretaries and other political appointees are now living in luxury, while the plight of the ordinary worker for whom the so-called revolution was alleged to have been made is becoming more and more unbearable under the military regime.

If the Graphic has started becoming nervous, it will be better to advise the PNDC to return the country to sanity before Rawlings and all those who have identified themselves with the evil regime are overtaken by events.

Y. Salifu Islington, London.