
As the resetting of Ghana's bankrupted national economy proceeds apace amidst the complexities of the AI era, providing a code of conduct for high-level appointees is a excellent good governance strategic move. However it's vital that throughout their tenures, the President and Vice President always act swiftly to dismiss appointees who don't follow the North Star guiding principles in this anti-corruption move to help rid Ghana of high-level grand larceny of the kind that Ghanaians saw, during the eight years that the Akyem Mafia dominated our country, and pillaged it as if they had conquered it and were entitled to the spoils of their victory.
They must ignore all those - particularly Traditional rulers and religious leaders of all faiths - who come to plead on behalf of those appointees who disappoint them in this pivotal matter of statecraft beneficial to Ghanaian society by not living up to expectations and disregarding this edict that only those unfit to serve in the positions they were honoured to be appointed to contribute their nation-building quotas will disregard.
It will be recalled that the Prime Minister in the 2nd Republic, Professor Kofi Abrefa Busia, also provided a code of conduct which a great deal of fanfare was made of. It failed spectacularly, because of the baleful influence of fa 3ma Nyame influnce peddling societal brigades, oooo, Ghanafuo It will fail in the Mahama2.0 era too, for the same reason if President Mahama and Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang don't adopt a zero-tolerance hard-of-hearing stance when the fa 3ma Nyame influnce-peddling societal brigades come calling, Ghanafuor. Yooooooooo. A word to the wise...
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