If Ghanaians don't kill high level corruption; will it kill Mother Ghana for sure?
Dear critical-reader, the question that wise and aspirational Africans, such as the good people of Ghana, ought to ponder over, in assessing the scandal-ridden New Patriotic Party (NPP) regime, said to be full of big-thieves-in-high-places of President Akufo-Addo, according to bush telegraph sources is: If Ghanaians don't kill high level corruption will it eventually kill Mother Ghana for sure?
That said, perhaps the key lesson that Ghanaians ought to learn from Nana Akufo-Addo's presidency, is that power really does corrupt ruling political parties in democracies - and that we must therefore demand that all high level government appointees must publicly publish the assets, both of themselves, and that of their spouses, before assuming office, and immediately after their tenures end. Full stop.
Additionally, hiding the assets of high level appointees through legal fronts for whatever reasons, must be made serious offences with long mandatory jail sentences without the possibility of parole, for suspects judged and sentenced by properly constituted fast track law courts established for that purpose.
Above all, we must incentivise whistleblowing, by indemnifying all whistleblowers from prosecution, and rewarding their patriotism with 30 percent of purloined public monies they help to recover.
Finally, dear critical-reader, when all is said and done, in the final analysis, the more responsible sections of Ghana's media landscape must be eternally vigilant, by remaining neutral politically at all material times as the 4th pillar of Ghanaian democracy. They must focus on protecting the national interest - which is whatever redounds to the benefit of the vast majority of ordinary people and ensures the well-being of Mother Ghana.
Alas, so rampant has high-level corruption become amongst our hard-of-hearing ruling elites, dear critical-reader, that if we don't kill high level corruption, it will eventually kill Mother Mother Ghana for sure, ooooo, Ghanafuor. Yoooooooo. A word to the wise...
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