‘We Would Refund The Fleeced Funds’

The decision by some persons to refund the monies they made off the back of the state is as worrying as the breaking of the news in the first place. They had the guts to pledge a refund because they know in Ghana such matters can easily be doused using the political brush.

We have pretended that all is well with the management of affairs in this country for too long. Not every Ghanaian agreed that things were working well anyway and such persons have been subjected to a litany of ordeals by a pack of hounds who received salaries to do just that. They and their masters benefited so much from the loot that they least expected that, given the decoys they have spawned, the status quo would hold indefinitely.

Today, it is clearer than a cloudless sky that the stories about the extent of corruption and looting of the state coffers were no exaggerations but statements of fact and we are not done with them yet. Perpetrators of this machination did not expect that it would blow up in their faces one day.

It has been years of incessant bleeding of the state as it were. When a state bleeds so much, there is definitely no way that a free SHS policy can be implemented as is an efficient National Health Insurance Scheme.

Had change not come to the political leadership of this country, we would have continued to suffer the challenges posed by crooks who pretended to be serving the interests of this country. Some Ghanaians were marched to the stake to die from the rounds of G3s in 1979 for taking paltry loans from banks. Juxtapose these persons with these persons who are ready to refund the ill-gotten funds.

It is interesting that they have not argued about the veracity of the story. For those who attempted denying the charge, their leader could not help telling them to shut up and arrange refunds immediately. What a country!

They sound and look like angels yet their actions now exposed, showed that they have always managed to conceal their negative sides.

Posterity will judge all of them, whose actions and otherwise have had their compatriots endure the ordeals of shortages of drugs in hospitals and dearth of the necessary inputs for the running of state institutions across the country. The wages of corruption is death directly and indirectly.

When people ask why those who steal minor things in society such as a fowl or a farm produce serve jail terms when they are caught but not so however when white collar thieves have virtually stolen everything at the treasury yet come nowhere near jails, the incidence of unfairness and injustice is prominent.

The 'business as usual' approach to things must witness finality so that we, too, as a country, can join the comity of serious nations and halt our stagnation.

For how long should we go a-borrowing only to dissipate such funds on white collar thieves for whom nothing is wrong with their iniquitous pastime – the parlous fallouts of these notwithstanding?

In the light of this development coupled with the acceptance of guilt by the bad persons, we would be dumbfounded when the usual noise in the media about letting bygones be bygones rear its head and constitute spanners in the wheels of state investigators. No, not anymore!