Nana's Anti-Corruption Module

Corruption is threatening the survivability of our country. So widespread is the contagion that it is approaching endemic level and therefore requiring efficacious attention to address it.

The modules often announced by the political establishment so gleefully in the media have turned out to be ruses, lacking the sincerity needed to move them beyond the platform on which they were announced with a heavy dose of obscene propaganda.

Indeed, the state institutions established to address the cankerworm are underpinned by structural lapses which render them almost useless in the face of the Herculean challenges posed by corruption.

And what better way to deal with it head-on than an innovation unlike what we currently have on the ground.

Nana Akufo-Addo's announcement of a module which he will unleash on the cankerworm when he becomes president is a laudable policy statement worthy of attracting a national conversation at this time of our helplessness as corruption marches almost without hindrance.

Those who seek to head this country should be able to tell what they would do differently that would deal a fatal blow to corruption.

There does not seem to be any attempt at stopping corruption under the present dispensation: the public service remains the most sought-after by those eager to become rich overnight. With the aberration showing such resilience, there is no gainsaying that only an effective response can uproot it. Anything less than such response would be business as usual as we continue to discuss the subject in the media with no dividends realised.

A Special Prosecutor's Office, unlike the institutions already on the ground as per the parameters that would underpin it, would ensure positive and potent returns.

The institutions operative now have persons who were appointed by those who themselves are contaminated and therefore lack the moral authority to address it effectively.

Therein lies the importance of Nana Akufo-Addo's module – the appointment of a Special Prosecutor without the hand of the executive. This way nobody who soils their hands in the filth of corruption would be too big to be prosecuted. That is the sense in the innovation.

Such a personality and his office would be able to unravel acts of corruption and apply the relevant punitive sanctions without fear or favour. That is a pragmatic response to a cankerworm which appears to be waxing stronger by the day.

Corruption is the bane of our country and so any proposal that has the potency of wiping it out should constitute the subject of national discourse and not the unnecessary trivialities which occupy the thoughts of mischievous persons as we are besieged by the cankerworm.

The alchemy that can address the challenge of corruption lies in the employment of bold steps away from pretentious speeches at public forums.