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Ill-Gotten Almost Everything

Feature Article Ill-Gotten Almost Everything
APR 20, 2015 LISTEN

My compatriots, the talk everywhere is ill-gotten wealth.

It is the latest among the never-ending congress scandals. Ill-gotten wealth my compatriots have suspected, rumoured and heard of. Those who have seen it have more of talked it. Today, however, we all know from confirmation, ranting, lamentation and whatever you choose to call it of a congress insider, that, indeed, congresspeople are amassing ill-gotten wealth.

The cat of covertly stealing state resources, which their cat-killer chair forgot to, or was unable to kill, is out of the bag. The rot of congress plunder of our resources has been confirmed from within the group's own inner circle. If someone who has worked at the heart of the presidency with access to intelligence tells you there is evidence of ill-gotten wealth, you would be the greatest of fools to question that.

Many of us had heard of a telco bribe of one million dollars to a big mouth critique of a certain sale in the ''sono administration. One million dollars into that one pocket began the loading of thieved funds which continued through trade matters. The telco spot cash payment had attracted a young self-confessed dunderhead of frontal and dorsal loading to blabber over a one million dollar target to quit politics.

So apparently, if you want your pocket loaded, you clamour and covet a communication posting. There, you can steal big and make the money big time. If you want to steal one million dollars in the shortest possible time, that is where to go. The boss knows it. He has been there before and so he makes sure he keeps one of his boys there.

The ill-gotten wealth guy worked his way there because he knew beef and honey are stashed there. Unlike that, the incumbent hoped to be there and was sent there. Anyway, whether one worked to go there, or was sent there matters not. It is a big money making place known to the boss and by that knowledge he poses or disposes strategically to encourage amassing ill-gotten wealth.

In my estimation, the ill-gotten is the sum of thieving, arrogance, greed and avarice. If you are greedy, you come to believe and forget that if you steal in print and you are caught, you can steal money and not get caught.

You become so intoxicated with thieving, the motherland money you have stolen included, that you begin to act kingmaker and come to see yourself as president.

It is amazing how an appointer manages to find this array of daftness and ignorance which end up thievery and of arrogance. Oh, such misfits and people of all kinds of shady know little or close to nothing character. The speaker who spoke the ill-gotten word is believed to have an unclear KNUST-UG transition. And the one he spoke the ill-gotten about is known to have committed an academic high crime punishable by the withdrawal of an awarded degree.

When people with shady character are appointed into ministerial positions, you can expect their performance, actions and inactions to be shady. If a person can tell you that being a dining hall prefect is working experience upon which he should be appointed a minister, you should know he is destined to steal.

I think it should be possible to find out from a prospective deputy defence minister whether he was ever enrolled in a cadet corps or not because that could be a useful criterion for evaluating him. For such a person to have not prepared himself at all for vetting to the extent of not knowing about army ranks, I bet he could be in for thieving.

Take a close look and you would realise that as for congress anything and everything about them is ill-gotten. It could be wealth, position, authority, and influence: all that is acquired in an ill-gotten manner. Everything and anything in the possession of a congressperson, owned by her/him is ill-gotten.

Strange congress - NUGS thieves and SRC thieves - have now descended down on the hierarchy steps to DHP thieves. If you care, the DHP makes me feel like hypothesising that the CV of prospective appointees as presented to the parliamentary vetting would most likely relate to the overall performance of the government formed from those CVs.

And I doubt that those who were eventually appointed as ministers in the ''sono administration ever stated their student leader positions as job experience. They seem solid than that.

Husbands and wives form consortiums to rule. Recently, we heard a consort's 'There is God ooo!'Someone wondered about the Clintons why 'a man driven, intelligent and ambitious' would want a wife who was his equal 'rather than one who was helpful, pliable, even decorative subordinate.' Your guess of the motherland's lot is as good as mine.

By Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh

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