During the Kufuor administration, sections of the Ghanaian society were always complaining about hardship, in spite of the fact that many social interventions had been put in place and the ordinary Ghanaian was directly benefiting. Ironically, people who were complaining were at the same time, enjoying properly functioning health insurance while their children enjoyed free bus ride to and from school. The aged in our society who had no source of income were being assisted with LEAP. Liquefied Petroleum Gas was being taken to the very doorsteps of consumers. Affordable housing and major road construction projects were being undertaken across the nation with internally generated funds. All these were being done when road tolls were one-thousand times lower than they are now. Inspite of these, candidate Atta-Mills and his followers, through ‘sweet talk’, vain promises, dirty lies, insults, intimidation and glaring electoral thievery, managed to wrest power from the NPP in 2008. And since gaining power, the NDC has probably fallen into a governance stupor. Though they are in government, they are still under the illusion that a nation as Ghana, with all its current myriad of socio-economic calamities, can be turned around by insults and insipid propaganda. Our nation is currently in the hands of a group of people who are obviously short of constructive ideas but are very much proficient in vile propaganda, lies and deceit. Whenever bread and butter issues that boarder on the survival of the ordinary Ghanaian are raised, plain insults are heaped on you by these mass movement of amorphous propagandists whose area of specialty is spewing unalloyed insults. And it is this behavior of these government appointees that has lately manifested in the form of all kinds of tapes of secret meetings involving Baba Jamal and some civil servants. Now, the core mandate of the Information Services Department (ISD) is to churn out the true picture in order to inform government’s direction on policy formulation. This information could either be positive or negative but at the end of the day, it is incumbent on the employees of this state agency to put out the bare facts and figures for the citizenry, whose taxes pay for the running of such institutions, to be able to judge for themselves, exactly how the nation is being governed. This is because when the citizens are well informed, then they can be in the better position to make the right choices when the time comes for them to do so. But when we are fed with lies in order to cloud our sense of judgment on issues and ultimate decision making, then an incalculable damage is certainly being done to the nation as a whole. It is in the light of this that I am very much convince that if such a plot to deceive the populace had taken place in any civilized democracy, the culprit, Baba Jamal would have been swiftly pushed out of the boat by the appointing authority. However, we currently find ourselves in an environment where integrity has been thrown to the dogs and mediocrity, hypocrisy and sycophancy have become the route to ‘chop-chop’ government appointment. So expect Baba Jamal to keep his job with a ‘swagger’. It is for this reason that on Wednesday, 10th August, 2011 edition of the ‘Minority Caucus’ on Multi-TV hosted by lawyer and member of NPP communication team, Yaw Buaben Asamoa, a panelist, Mr. Kweabena Sarpong of the NPP communication team, had a bone to pick with the president to the effect that he (Atta-Mills), has developed the habit of turning a complete deaf ear to what is going on after all he could be benefiting directly from the lies and insults being churned out by his appointees. Another panelist, Ms Ursula Owusu, who is the NPP’s 2012 parliamentary candidate for Ablekuma South constituency, also took issue with the president and complained of how he always seems to be “silent and complain of politics of insults only when he happens to be at the receiving end”. In my candid opinion, for Ghanaians to see the president’s calls against the politics of insults as sincere, he must first clear the cabinet of deadwood and insult-happy appointees around him. Justice Abeeku Newton-Offei A political analyst E-mail: justnoff@yahoo.com