At Last The Truth

Under the current democratic dispensation it has recurred, intermittently playing back thoughts of the junta days. Those were days when it was a crime to progress in business, and deadly to be wealthy.

It is unfortunate that some politicians have the diabolic tendency to destroy businesses which employ people who would have ordinarily joined the pool of unemployed citizens.

Details of the country's economy would have been written differently, had these entities not been wiped off and achievers not despised.

While civilised countries reserve space for originators of positive concepts and other achievers in the arts and others in their halls of fame, the NDC government thinks otherwise.

A few weeks ago, Stephen Boateng Kesse, aka Kessben, a wealthy businessman with employees in excess of one thousand five hundred, was arrested at the Kotoka International Airport and humiliated in selected newspapers.

His sorry story is one of the many chronicled since the NDC assumed political power six years ago.

Two pharmaceutical companies, local ones of course, have had their turns already, after being tagged pro-opposition entities and cast in bad light in the media. How sad?

He was tagged a money launderer and held incommunicado for some days. The tendentious reportage about his so-called offence provoked thoughts about whether politicians have learnt the many lessons of history and are real when they talk about development.

At the time the story was unfolding, we put it out confidently that a political victimisation of a perceived supporter of the opposition NPP was being played out by the relevant state agency.

The ploy was so puerile and imbecilic that, coming from the state, we were at a loss about the kind of country we are building for future generations.

Talking about investment, in the face of such diabolic ploys, questions the sincerity of the government.

So Kessben who was touted as the reason our Cedi is losing value has been cleared of the charges levelled against him?

Governance is a serious business and should not be treated as a toy game as being played out. In an ephemeral world it sounds unwise when those who find themselves at the throttles of state behave as though power is not transient.

Let us be mindful of this fact of life by being modest, remembering that the detention cells we order prosperous persons to be locked in, would be waiting for us tomorrow. Festina Lente, as the Romans of yore said to wit Make Haste Slowly, is an important dictum worthy of consideration by the power drunk.