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Worshipping Criminals

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Editorial Worshipping Criminals
OCT 26, 2007 LISTEN

The increasing spate of accountants and cashiers bolting with huge sums of money from their various workplaces must be seriously checked and the culprits brought to book.

These days, hardly does a day pass without reports in our newspapers that accountants and cashiers are on the run with various sums of money.

That is all that is brought to the notice of the public. Information on whether the suspects were later arrested is kept away from the public.

However, the public is entitled to know because monies alleged to have been embezzled belong to the Ghanaian tax-payer and it is their right to know what efforts are being made to arrest the suspects.

Looking at how some of the thefts were executed, it was clear that some accounting officers in the same offices with the suspects, internal auditors and some bank officials aided and abetted the crime, otherwise one person could not have succeeded without being detected.

With the kind of malfeasance being perpetrated at the workplaces, people have lost confidence in everybody, including their own relatives and friends.

People who attempt to raise a finger against those crimes are rather regarded as enemies of progress.

Ironically, these are the same people who are highly respected in the society for being hardworking and subsequently rich.

They donate huge sums of money at public functions and are given red carpet treatment in their communities.

By this, we are compelled to believe that a dangerous tendency is creeping into the society, whereby people worship wrongdoing instead of showing remorse towards it.

It appears people struggle these days to get to a particular position in life just to amass wealth illegally. This tendency cannot go unchecked, otherwise the entire society would become a community of criminals.

The time has therefore come for Ghanaians to despise illegalities and expose perpetrators of such activities to public ridicule. That would go a very long way to reduce criminal and dishonest activities in the country.

A community which does not expose its wrongdoers and rather protects them has no future. Today it would appear as though the people love the wrongdoer, but he would bring disgrace and danger to the people tomorrow.

In every community people who attempt to expose the wrongdoer incur the wrath of his relatives and friends. This should however not discourage the good people of the community. They must be brave to continue their civic responsibilities.

At a time when the international community is praising Ghana for becoming the shining star of the West African sub-region, the country can no longer provide shelter for criminals.

Wherever they might be hiding, they must be smoked out to face the full rigours of the law.

DAILY GUIDE reminds community members who refuse to give information about suspects to security agencies that they themselves are as guilty as the suspects.

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