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22.03.2024 Feature Article

Is Ghana's General Legal Council metaphorically fiddling while Rome burns?

Is Ghana's General Legal Council metaphorically fiddling while Rome burns?
22.03.2024 LISTEN

Dear critical-reader the question a wise and aspirational African people such as Ghanaians need to ponder over is: Is Ghana's General Legal Council metaphorically fiddling while Rome burns - and why so, if it is?

Ghana's biggest challenge, to its transformation into a prosperous and equitable society, in which all demographics live well, is endemic high-level corruption by greedy individuals-without-conscience, whose whole focus, is amassing wealth at the expense of their nation, in order to send their personal net worth to stratospheric heights.

That is the reason why our homeland Ghana is being bled dry by the powerful state-capture rent-seekers amongst our elites, who invariably end up bankrolling our country's biggest two political parties, when they become ruling parties forming governments-of-the-day (and have done), ever since the 4th Republic came into being.

Public procurement has often been the conduit for state-capture rent-seekers to rob Mother Ghana blind, in broad daylight, so to speak. And all those one-sided agreements disadvantageous to Mother Ghana (particularly in the extractive sector of our national economy, and the sourcing of loans ostensibly contracted to fund the nation-building efforts of governments-of-the-day), are overseen by lawyers.

If lawyers were principled and guided by the ethics of their noble profession, logically, it follows a priori that no such one-sided agreements disadvantageous to our homeland Ghana, would ever be signed by those who govern our country, at any given point in time.

In that sense, the legal profession has been found wanting - and needs to make an effort to stop high level corruption in a nation bankrupted by its leaders, and which sits atop a ticking social time bomb that could explode at any moment, with disastrous consequences for all our societal demographics, oooo, Ghanafuor. Yoooooooo...

That is why Ghana's General Legal Council, urgently needs to do something about so-called "respectable" lawyers in Ghana, who are the foremost professional enablers, of our benighted Republic's super ruthless self-seeking big-thieves-in-high-places, and their big-brown-envelope-acolytes, whose state-capture rent-seeking greed, has contributed to the bankrupting of the enterprise Ghana.

They it is, on whose hands, the blood-of-innocents will drip, were the ticking social time bomb our nation sits atop, to explode, oooo, Ghanafuor. Yoooooooo...

The question that an aspirational African people, such as Ghanaians, ought to therefore ponder over is: Surely, if lawyers advised against governments-of-the-day signing one-sided loan agreements, and unconscionable

extractive industry agreements detrimental to our beleaguered Republic, high-level corruption of the family-and-friends variant, wouldn't have become so rampant under the current government-of-the-day and all its predecessor-regimes, would it?

Enough is enough. Ghanaians are fed up to the back teeth with endemic high level corruption. That is why Ghana's General Legal Council must metaphorically stop fiddling while Rome burns - by insisting and making sure that all lawyers in Ghana act ethically at all material times. Full stop. Case closed. Yoooooooo. A word to the the wise...

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