Woyome's Humbug, Mills's Shame

Alfred Woyome

Those who had problems about rating President John Atta Mills's political morality and sincerity should be heaving a sigh of relief by now.

The First Gentleman has in the face of many morality challenges failed to impress the people of Ghana.

Martin Amidu's heroic show against the gargantuan rip-off offered a rare opportunity for the President to raise his head above the parapet. He did not do so but chose to be emotional and, in the event, fired the Attorney General for daring to be different from the pack of wolves surrounding him.

What a missed opportunity to prove a point that he is really out to take on corruption. By now a depraved personality through his association with the Woyomes and other social fiends, the associate professor is beyond redemption stuck in a quicksand of corruption.

He could only manage an order to the deference-deficient Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) to probe Alfred Agbesi Woyome's humbug. It was an order issued reluctantly regardless of its uselessness anyway.  

Whatever happened to the Muntaka case when after cynically asking whether the MP was the first minister to travel abroad with a girlfriend, he turned around to ask the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice to probe the issue? A clean bill of good health of sorts was issued him even after subtly de-robing him of a ministerial appointment.

Remember his infamous 'my target is not Woyome but those who caused the judgment debt.'

The Presidency, we can venture an assertion, has never been so debased; no wonder the symbol of government, President Mills himself, admitted that his name has been cheapened, not worth a penny.

Having been in association with Alfred Agbesi Woyome until the lid was blown over the weird judgment debt payment releasing the telltale worms at the Presidency, we did not expect President Mills to forsake the self-acclaimed NDC financier.

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President John Evans Atta Mills
President Mills's reaction so far, especially the open entry of Martin Amidu into the fray, so far contradicts the tenets of morality exposing him painfully to public ridicule.

How the conman par excellence and his backers in government manage the new front opened by defiant Martin Amidu will surely be a political thriller. The first scene, characterized by a confused Mills de-appointing Martin Amidu, meets the requirements of hypocrisy at the highest level of governance. 

 Woyome, a name now synonymous with financial criminality, might continue to draw inspiration and hope from the remarks and encouraging demeanour of the President but this, in the face of the determination of Ghanaians to retrieve the ill-gotten money, will yield nothing but opprobrium and scorn from the citizenry.

 The persistent reference to the President's innocence in the saga only insults the intelligence of Ghanaians. The figures do not add up and we would rather the President's boys change their propaganda-laced strategy because it is unable to fly beyond their noses, their continued stay on the rooftops notwithstanding.

They pretend to be on top of the rot in a manner which is shocking, perhaps because of the tendency in them to believe in the lies they are spewing all over the place even when Ghanaians scorn at the obscene mendacity.

Martin Amidu's ouster might offer a brief relief but when the details of the gargantuan criminals start making the headlines, President Mills would regret surrounding himself with a pack of wolves.

Call Alfred Woyome's humbug financial engineering and you would have hit the bull's eye. The coming days would be interesting, full of political drama and weirdness.