Who is Anas? …….Who is he?

One name on the lips of every Ghanaian and has gained the most popularity despite some individuals and public outcries and hullabaloos isAnas Aremeyaw Anas. As I lay here combining letters into words and to sentences, to paragraphs and pages, I don’t know whether the nameAnas Aremeyaw Anas is a brand name or an individual. Whether is a male or a female? But I hope I will not be thrown into contempt of anylaw for having disputed his/her gender. I will therefore refer Anas, as he.

For a very long time and for three decades and beyond, an individual we all have doubts about his existence is celebrated through writtendocuments, verbal and spiritual mediums. We all hail Anas and we all vilify and denigrate him-depending on where we find ourselves.

What has come off Anas and the extreme appetite to unearth corrupt practices in Ghana and across Africa? A colleague at workplace, remarked“God sent Him to come save Ghana” verily, that is true. The individual and personality behind the mask is a genius and a God-sent. The brainbehind the Anasé, I will opine, is a large BRAIN. That brain is doing the most things most Ghanaians wanted to do but had limited access to orwere cajoled on the way to retract, Or were financially irrigated to succumb. When I sit in church, travel in the buses, sit in the bars and atworkplace and hear how everyone discuss Anas and the continuous Anasé, I feel proud to be a Ghanaian; that there are still good people inthis Nkrumah left behind country. People ready in rooting corruption and her synonymous allies out of this beautiful African country. Although it’s not going to take a year or two, we shall root it out with the likes of Anas, Mannaseh Azure Awuni and many hidden others.

Some years back, I was discouraged growing up as a Ghanaian and an Africa and cursed why my mother was not at least got raped by anywhite poor folk for me not to have belonged to the race I have found myself. I had this wicked and wired thought when corruption wasshaking and demolishing the foundation and the building of this nation. But I was catapulted to the right side of some Africans andGhanaians. I passionately listen and contribute to the Citi 97.3 FM’s Breakfast show and I hear many issues. The way the host, Bernard KokuAvle, and his co-hosts, Richard Dela Sky, Godfred Akoto Boafo and Nana Ama Agyemang Asante deliberate issues on the economy, health,Agriculture and education, I marvel and feel proud to be a Ghanaian and that my issues can also be heard. But who is listening? If we all arenot behaving hypocritically, then someday, my wired thought will evaporates.

I also had the opportunity to listen to prof. P.L.O Lumumba when he fervently talked on corruption in Africa and how he narrowed it down tothe Ghanaians settings and I felt proud that I still remain a Ghanaian and an African. I have known that there are many who rise up againstcorruption and making an impact in their small ways. But who is listening and watching?

These scenarios shall keep remaining in me as far as I have life. -Student leaders in the tertiary and senior high schools and their urge to steal what belongs to the mass.

SRC executives connive with patrons of the councils and what is supposed to be used for a project is diverted in their favour. Who is watching? If you don’t join, you definitely will remain where I am and have been.-Poor. You can’t afford the least mobile voucher. These are the prospective national leaders I guess.

In the other instance, I chanced on students offering government as a subject and the tutor at the time was a political party biased. Although he had every right to belong to party A or B, he ended up transcending what was deep down in him politically into our someday leaders- the genesis and apparently the continuation of our problems.

These someday future leaders in the classrooms have started manipulating figures and dancing to the trend. They have begun telling lies when asked to defend budgets. Similar to this is in the business department when students will not arrive at a true statement of account. I may be wrong, I may be right.

The last mind blowing instance is when I visited a party office in a guise seeking for information and assistance……. -Am not Anas. I may be Anas. Who then is Anas? The question still remains same. Let me not digress. …….In the party office, [I wish I had a secret recorder]. No wonder Anas is able to capture the many corrupt individuals and still capturing them from time to time, because the African’s and Ghanaian’s desire for wealth and leadership is insatiable. [Anas, keep casting the net. There are many more out there to be caught. I am with you]. Again, who then is Anas? ……… So in that party office, a woman who wanted to win the heart of the many other greedy people seated and to put pressure on the Minister and the Member of Parliament (MP) in that constituency made the loudest blunder…. She said “As for Baba, he doesn’t want to release the money. Did he not see Dr. Omane Buamah when we went to Nsawam for the party executive elections?” ………she continued after another woman seated and couldn’t conceal her appetite for the states’ money at the time, interrupted, “say that gain ooooo my sister”……. “The money was in a big box and they were sharing like that”. I couldn’t hide my surprise on hearing that. This is a country that is struggling to pay teachers and doctors. A country that has placed embargo on public sector employment and subjecting graduates to armed robbers and all other vices, and you, a woman publicly shout this in public? No wonder Anas is exposing you all “like that” if I had had ‘Anas’ on me, I would have exposed some people that day. Remember, no one is Anas. We all are Anas and need to police ourselves to remove such individuals from our system.

So who is Anas as we all cry?
Anas is everywhere and is watching.
I recall at the end of all his exposé, he will indicates, “If you are a bad guy, I will come after you”

Kudos to all those Masking Against Corruption and “Anassing”

Let’s all uphold and build this country devoid of corruption and many other evil practices

God bless Ghana, god bless us all.
Wisdom Bonuedi
The writer is a Teacher who writes issues on Education, Politics, Social life and Humanity

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