Woso Corruption no gu!!! See who should be heading for Nsawam (Part I)

It is very excruciatingly sad how some people elected into office of trust, quickly forget the plight of the people who queued most often in the sun or the rain to vote for them. The growing interest of some political leaders in self enrichment at the expense of the masses is outrageous and completely unacceptable.

Some eight years ago the erstwhile NPP government appeared very enthusiastic about the level of tolerance for corruption in this country, little did we know that it was a “white elephant” and a calculated mischief targeted on some innocent Ghanaians like Mr. Tsatsu Tsikata and others to suffer incomprehensible injustice. This goes to emphasize that corrupt dictators like the NPP use tools which breed fear, intimidation and terror against the citizenry.

The whole country was thrown into confounded dismay when it came to public the kind of rot the NPP had accumulated and shielded over the last eight years. These corrupt acts so far have given credence to the descriptions like lootocracy, manya mayna, waawaa, abaayeni, noko fio, etc.

Indeed this goes to emphasize that the NPP are a bunch of stomach politicians and political vampires. The entire nation was thrown into a state of quagmire when it came to public the kind of astronomical and super-extravagant ESB's inconsiderably cooked for the former president and his compatriots. This kind of package was being demanded in the phase of the huge sums of “kick backs” that have been received over the years.

Indeed the continuous protection and shielding of audit reports of the past eight years is completely uncalled for and disgraceful to a country which is striving to bridge about 300 years of developmental gap between herself and the western world.

The hoopla did not end there, the former Speaker of Parliament beyond his expectations of a sumptuous ESB package also swept his residence of every single item including pepper and onions. This act has sprung an endless debate on why a very wealthy man by all stretch of imagination will commit such a sacrilegious act. This debate has even grown to become acrimonious upon efforts by the shameless leaders of the erstwhile government to explain this unfortunate misdemeanour.

I believe the definition of property owning democracy is now clear to the populace; the gross disregard for the poor and the vulnerable, the unearthly desire for riches irrespective of the source and the risk. This endorses the number of government cars that were stolen and the insulting amounts they bought some of the cars for from themselves.

Having known this, it is even not surprising that out of over 882 vehicles and 86 motorbikes imported from 2003 to 2008 at total cost of $20,174,159.39 only 125 could be located and accounted for. The question is where are the rest of the cars?

After the ordinary Ghanaian has suffered the democracy of nepotism, no accountability, power to the rich and power to the cocaine dealers, with a complete disregard for the electorates, the NPP further bruise our wounds by leaving with state property and money. If our leaders, entrusted with the power to govern will woefully mal-handle the tax payer's money, why won't the youth indulge in unholy acts like armed robbery, phone snatching, sakawa etc?

As for the Ghana@50 scandal, the least said about it the better. The entire idea of such an extravagant celebration was a diplomatic ploy to milk an ailing economy like ours. I guess Ghanaians are relieved to some extent upon hearing the inauguration of a committee to probe the Vodafone deal. The corrupt revelations give cause to believe that the Vodafone deal was not without a “Kick back”.

It is about time we got serious as a country against corruption and support for civil anti-corruption groups like the CJA. This is because nobody can solve our corruption problems for us unless we rise together as Ghanaians united by a common purpose, eschewing all political colours to fight against such criminals hiding under the guise of politics. Such individuals are a disgrace to the body politic of this country.
Fellow Ghanaians, keep your fingers crossed, there is more to come because the revelations have just begun. Watch out for part two (2).

Credit: Otokunor Boamah Peter [[email protected]]