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26.05.2017 Feature Article

Yes, Ghana Is Not Poor But Too Corrupt

Yes, Ghana Is Not Poor But Too Corrupt
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The problem with my country Ghana is not poverty as Nana Addo has rightly identified. Our problem is corruption front, back and center. The average Ghanaian is corrupt. The police is corrupt even including the IGP himself, the army is corrupt, the customs and border agency as well as the immigration services are all corrupt, The media is corrupt, the average civil service personnel is corrupt so what on earth should anyone expects Ghana to move forward?

If people say Ghana will prosper under NPP, I just look at them and laugh. I see such optimists as ignorant poor souls who are day dreaming about a fantasy. Ghana as it is now can never develop, never, not in our life time. Not until somebody rises up and kill everyone over 20 years old to pave the way for a new breed of Ghanaians, the corruption will pass on from generation to generation.

I submitted documents to register a piece of land that I purchased in 2002. the documents were submitted in 2011 and till today, I have been chasing the documents inspite of the numerous bribes and kickbacks I have paid in addition to the official fees. Only God knows when my documents will be ready.

After paying for one additional electric meter for an apartment in my house 4 years ago, I still have not received the meter and everytime, it is go and come until I lost the receipt and had to pay for it the second and third times and still, I do not have the meter. Everybody who deals with the ECG Dome-Kwabenya station knows about what I am saying here. yet we have people there working and being paid salaries every month. can anybody blame people for illegal connection if they can not get meter after 3 years of application? which country are we living in?

Importation of used mattresses and fridges in commercial quantities are banned in Ghana, yet I have seen with my nacked eyes that a container load of used mattresses and fridges were offloaded into a container truck at the Jubilee terminal in broad day light whiles customs wanted to confiscate my 2 used commercial fridges meant for my proposed restaurant. In Ghana, only the small man suffers and the big men get away with murder. One 40 footer container of banned goods were given a free pass, yet my 2 pieces of used fridges suffered huge penaly before clearance. This is the Ghana we live in and you think this country can develop. You must be joking !!!!

In Ghana, every government service that you want to ascess, you have to pay bribe, recruitment into police service and the military is no exception. Even getting into politics to render your service to your own country is based on bribe, without bribe, you can not go anywhere in politics.

Even in the house of God, people pay bribes. I have heard about countless number of Pastors who pay bribes to be sent to Pastor diaspora branches of their various curches. corruption is endemic in Ghana so much that, if that were to be the only criteria for going to heaven, it would be extremely difficult for any soul to be saved in Ghana.

At the filling stations, the pumps are manipulated and when you buy 10 gallons of fuel, you end up getting 6 gallons, this is corruption and thiefly. In my travels, I have seen a lot of Nigerians holding Ghana passport eventhough they can not even speak a single Ghanaian language, yet bonafide citizens can not get their passports renewed and you hear people living in London and Italy and other countries crying everyday for their passports to be renewed.

Ghana laws forbid foreigners from engaging in retail trade but you go to Okaishie, and other parts of Accra you will see that foreigners have taken over most of our retail businesses and when you dig deep, you will find that, it is our own brothers and sisters who have used their names to register those businesses for the foreigners for peanuts. when we sell our dignity to foreigners for cheap in this way, how on earth do we expect them to respect us? Look at the recent news that a minister in the erstwhile NDC government traded sex for galamsey licence for a Chinnese lady

I can go on and on to hilight every aspect of our lives where corruption is so deeply rooted even including our reverred chieftancy institution where our chirfs have become so corrupt that they sell parcels of family lands entrusted to them and misuse the proceeds.

Since independence, there is not a single state institution that has operated on its own without governemt subvention or bailout at a time. Look at SIC, Ghana Commercial Bank, State Transport Corp.TOR, etc. There is not a single country in the western world where insurance companies whether public or private opearte at a loss. Insurance is by its nature a profitable business except the State insurance corporation of Ghana.

I can only conclude that, the Ghanaian is by nature corrupt therefore, public institutions can hardly succeed in such an atmosphere, only private businesses and ventures can survive in this kind of culture. The government must seriously consider getting out of any kind of business whether jointly owned with the private sector or wholy owned by gevernment and concerntrate only on the business of gevernance. No public owned business will ever thrive in Ghana given the current breed of Ghanaians and the "lets give it to God" attitude of Ghanaians. Only in Ghana that when people embezzle public funds and they apologise, the matter is ended. Politicians build filling stations and mansions and use their children's name to register them and when you ask them they tell you that I do not own a single filling station on the face of the earth, and the matter ends there. We must be serious as a country for once if we want to go forward as a nation.

The problem with my country Ghana is not poverty as Nana Addo has rightly identified. Our problem is corruption front, back and center. The average Ghanaian is corrupt. The police is corrupt even including the IGP himself, the army is corrupt, the customs and border agency as well as the immigration services are all corrupt, The media is corrupt, the average civil service personnel is corrupt so what on earth should anyone expects Ghana to move forward?

If people say Ghana will prosper under NPP, I just look at them and laugh. I see such optimists as ignorant poor souls who are day dreaming about a fantasy. Ghana as it is now can never develop, never, not in our life time. Not until somebody rises up and kill everyone over 20 years old to pave the way for a new breed of Ghanaians, the corruption will pass on from generation to generation.

I submitted documents to register a piece of land that I purchased in 2002. the documents were submitted in 2011 and till today, I have been chasing the documents inspite of the numerous bribes and kickbacks I have paid in addition to the official fees. Only God knows when my documents will be ready.

After paying for one additional electric meter for an apartment in my house 4 years ago, I still have not received the meter and everytime, it is go and come until I lost the receipt and had to pay for it the second and third times and still, I do not have the meter. Everybody who deals with the ECG Dome-Kwabenya station knows about what I am saying here. yet we have people there working and being paid salaries every month. can anybody blame people for illegal connection if they can not get meter after 3 years of application? which country are we living in?

Importation of used mattresses and fridges in commercial quantities are banned in Ghana, yet I have seen with my nacked eyes that a container load of used mattresses and fridges were offloaded into a container truck at the Jubilee terminal in broad day light whiles customs wanted to confiscate my 2 used commercial fridges meant for my proposed restaurant. In Ghana, only the small man suffers and the big men get away with murder. One 40 footer container of banned goods were given a free pass, yet my 2 pieces of used fridges suffered huge penaly before clearance. This is the Ghana we live in and you think this country can develop. You must be joking !!!!

In Ghana, every government service that you want to ascess, you have to pay bribe, recruitment into police service and the military is no exception. Even getting into politics to render your service to your own country is based on bribe, without bribe, you can not go anywhere in politics.

Even in the house of God, people pay bribes. I have heard about countless number of Pastors who pay bribes to be sent to Pastor diaspora branches of their various curches. corruption is endemic in Ghana so much that, if that were to be the only criteria for going to heaven, it would be extremely difficult for any soul to be saved in Ghana.

At the filling stations, the pumps are manipulated and when you buy 10 gallons of fuel, you end up getting 6 gallons, this is corruption and thiefly. In my travels, I have seen a lot of Nigerians holding Ghana passport eventhough they can not even speak a single Ghanaian language, yet bonafide citizens can not get their passports renewed and you hear people living in London and Italy and other countries crying everyday for their passports to be renewed.

Ghana laws forbid foreigners from engaging in retail trade but you go to Okaishie, and other parts of Accra you will see that foreigners have taken over most of our retail businesses and when you dig deep, you will find that, it is our own brothers and sisters who have used their names to register those businesses for the foreigners for peanuts. when we sell our dignity to foreigners for cheap in this way, how on earth do we expect them to respect us? Look at the recent news that a minister in the erstwhile NDC government traded sex for galamsey licence for a Chinnese lady

I can go on and on to hilight every aspect of our lives where corruption is so deeply rooted even including our reverred chieftancy institution where our chirfs have become so corrupt that they sell parcels of family lands entrusted to them and misuse the proceeds.

Since independence, there is not a single state institution that has operated on its own without governemt subvention or bailout at a time. Look at SIC, Ghana Commercial Bank, State Transport Corp.TOR, etc. There is not a single country in the western world where insurance companies whether public or private opearte at a loss. Insurance is by its nature a profitable business except the State insurance corporation of Ghana.

I can only conclude that, the Ghanaian is by nature corrupt therefore, public institutions can hardly succeed in such an atmosphere, only private businesses and ventures can survive in this kind of culture. The government must seriously consider getting out of any kind of business whether jointly owned with the private sector or wholy owned by gevernment and concerntrate only on the business of gevernance. No public owned business will ever thrive in Ghana given the current breed of Ghanaians and the "lets give it to God" attitude of Ghanaians. Only in Ghana that when people embezzle public funds and they apologise, the matter is ended. Politicians build filling stations and mansions and use their children's name to register them and when you ask them they tell you that I do not own a single filling station on the face of the earth, and the matter ends there. We must be serious as a country for once if we want to go forward as a nation.

The problem with my country Ghana is not poverty as Nana Addo has rightly identified. Our problem is corruption front, back and center. The average Ghanaian is corrupt. The police is corrupt even including the IGP himself, the army is corrupt, the customs and border agency as well as the immigration services are all corrupt, The media is corrupt, the average civil service personnel is corrupt so what on earth should anyone expects Ghana to move forward?

If people say Ghana will prosper under NPP, I just look at them and laugh. I see such optimists as ignorant poor souls who are day dreaming about a fantasy. Ghana as it is now can never develop, never, not in our life time. Not until somebody rises up and kill everyone over 20 years old to pave the way for a new breed of Ghanaians, the corruption will pass on from generation to generation.

I submitted documents to register a piece of land that I purchased in 2002. the documents were submitted in 2011 and till today, I have been chasing the documents inspite of the numerous bribes and kickbacks I have paid in addition to the official fees. Only God knows when my documents will be ready.

After paying for one additional electric meter for an apartment in my house 4 years ago, I still have not received the meter and everytime, it is go and come until I lost the receipt and had to pay for it the second and third times and still, I do not have the meter. Everybody who deals with the ECG Dome-Kwabenya station knows about what I am saying here. yet we have people there working and being paid salaries every month. can anybody blame people for illegal connection if they can not get meter after 3 years of application? which country are we living in?

Importation of used mattresses and fridges in commercial quantities are banned in Ghana, yet I have seen with my nacked eyes that a container load of used mattresses and fridges were offloaded into a container truck at the Jubilee terminal in broad day light whiles customs wanted to confiscate my 2 used commercial fridges meant for my proposed restaurant. In Ghana, only the small man suffers and the big men get away with murder. One 40 footer container of banned goods were given a free pass, yet my 2 pieces of used fridges suffered huge penaly before clearance. This is the Ghana we live in and you think this country can develop. You must be joking !!!!

In Ghana, every government service that you want to ascess, you have to pay bribe, recruitment into police service and the military is no exception. Even getting into politics to render your service to your own country is based on bribe, without bribe, you can not go anywhere in politics.

Even in the house of God, people pay bribes. I have heard about countless number of Pastors who pay bribes to be sent to Pastor diaspora branches of their various curches. corruption is endemic in Ghana so much that, if that were to be the only criteria for going to heaven, it would be extremely difficult for any soul to be saved in Ghana.

At the filling stations, the pumps are manipulated and when you buy 10 gallons of fuel, you end up getting 6 gallons, this is corruption and thiefly. In my travels, I have seen a lot of Nigerians holding Ghana passport eventhough they can not even speak a single Ghanaian language, yet bonafide citizens can not get their passports renewed and you hear people living in London and Italy and other countries crying everyday for their passports to be renewed.

Ghana laws forbid foreigners from engaging in retail trade but you go to Okaishie, and other parts of Accra you will see that foreigners have taken over most of our retail businesses and when you dig deep, you will find that, it is our own brothers and sisters who have used their names to register those businesses for the foreigners for peanuts. when we sell our dignity to foreigners for cheap in this way, how on earth do we expect them to respect us? Look at the recent news that a minister in the erstwhile NDC government traded sex for galamsey licence for a Chinnese lady

I can go on and on to hilight every aspect of our lives where corruption is so deeply rooted even including our reverred chieftancy institution where our chirfs have become so corrupt that they sell parcels of family lands entrusted to them and misuse the proceeds.

Since independence, there is not a single state institution that has operated on its own without governemt subvention or bailout at a time. Look at SIC, Ghana Commercial Bank, State Transport Corp.TOR, etc. There is not a single country in the western world where insurance companies whether public or private opearte at a loss. Insurance is by its nature a profitable business except the State insurance corporation of Ghana.

I can only conclude that, the Ghanaian is by nature corrupt therefore, public institutions can hardly succeed in such an atmosphere, only private businesses and ventures can survive in this kind of culture. The government must seriously consider getting out of any kind of business whether jointly owned with the private sector or wholy owned by gevernment and concerntrate only on the business of gevernance. No public owned business will ever thrive in Ghana given the current breed of Ghanaians and the "lets give it to God" attitude of Ghanaians. Only in Ghana that when people embezzle public funds and they apologise, the matter is ended. Politicians build filling stations and mansions and use their children's name to register them and when you ask them they tell you that I do not own a single filling station on the face of the earth, and the matter ends there. We must be serious as a country for once if we want to go forward as a nation.

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