When Peter Is Rubbed To Pay Paul, It Results into a Consolidation

The razzle-dazzle about the zeal of the Local banks being clamped by the austerity of the Nation’s regulatory body, which has generated continuous vituperations stemming from the breath and width of Ghana and not notwithstanding the media platforms; I pray that it would not vamoose from the minds of the people unless the needful is done to dribble impunity, looking at how the perpetuators are still drinking a hot coffee because Ghana is somewhere somehow sweet!

The Central Bank, whether it was relaxant, or due diligence was not sorted as many had held onto those spleens, it is said that there are many opinions as there are men. We were told that when an elderly man speaks, young men stay quiet because the best part of communication is that which is not said! But this time round I would defiantly dissent because there is something we are still pondering over, perhaps that was the part of the words that were not spoken, I pliably guestimate.

There are times that if you see a Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) of a bank or any working environment in his lugubrious car and suits trying to escape dust-devils, so all glasses are rolled as he drives by. You are dared to believe that you need to walk blindfolded on the ‘Kakum canopy walk’ before you will become somebody in life, because such positions demand a lot of home-sense cum plenty books! My thought breeds from the camp of the “Association of the Less Privileged (ALP)”, it has dawn on me that all the barrage of criticisms leveled against the regulatory body, the Central Bank has done its job prudently and professionally well by conglomerating all the defunct banks under one entity to be managed scrupulously, but again, I asked, with which peoples’ money would that be used to balance the stratospheric liabilities, and would that be done for any citizen of Ghana if he does a modicum of such cantankerous mistake done in another sector or the moral fiber which belongs to those apprehended?

In Ghana, there is a brazen phenomenon of a decorated thief cladded in a nice suit that goes unpunished after he has embarked on an incessant broad-day-book-thievery. They just do it carefully and that no blood is speared but it gives emotional trauma, displeasure and internal bleeding not to a small group of people but to fraught 29,463, 643 people, could not it be termed as a carnival holocaust! However, these crimes are well planned and may be would go unpunished owing to the perpetrators involved, because they might have in possession the gospel of Barnabas and Angel Gabriel’s white garment or the famous atomic numbers and prototypes!

Raymond Ayi Ayittey (Atta Ayi), together with the known ‘six armed robbery gang’ who were sentenced to a total of 118 years for bolting 11, 200 cedi which could never shoulder with the magnitude of the gargantuan amount of 5.3 billion Ghana cedi. But today, those culprits are serving averagely of 20 years in the dungeons of Nsawam and had no coffee break! If they had killed people and they have been busted for that, it really justifiable, but if it is the monies that they have stolen and been nabbed then we must think to rethink. The world favors the literates most often because on paper they could be clever-killers.

But come to think of it, as a Nation that is so broke to the point that our transportation system is weak, healthcare is better than Ghana cedi, education is politicized and poverty is so brewing and it has led to utter recklessness all over. When an intelligent malfeasance is perpetrated, offing to amputate the economy, we have been so relenting to contribute a whopping 3.4 billion to cement the leakages and seepages, meanwhile these are individuals whose pocket money could even buy a Kantatanka Daasebre car!

The Central bank has done its work judiciously and that makes me postulate that it owes us a lot? If we are to divide the money that has been given out to salvage the issue so, the tax payer has is in an excreting pain; the poor Peter is being rubbed to pay the rich Paul. If government had shared this money like he had done to the free senior high education, the wrangling of it been sustainable would be quelled because it could pay for three years, and if it was debited to the association of the less privileged there would be standard of living. Like the “Kayayei” at Tema station would expand their carriage business, street hawkers would get to expand their sole business, and the carnage on the roads would be lessen thus the street sweepers would also not be paid 100 cedi. But our monies have been credited to the Bank managers freely and I ask a forthright question, so when would the gap between the rich and the poor be bridged and when would a day come in Ghana that all of us could have three square meals? I just wish I could walk to the Central Bank and just with my voter’s card and demand for my share of the national cake because it would not come, and it is not coming and it has again gone to the selected few, oops!

That is why I always frown when I look at people in the v8s' and then they turn around to say that we are broke, I mean how? But have any broke country contributed a whooping amount to savage a small group of people mining the public purse without they been haunted? The government could have used this money to have constructed all the identified roads that were to be bartered with bauxite mining at the Atewa forest Reserve for the indigenes to continue drinking uncontaminated. We are not forever broke, but we are forever broke, perhaps, how we manage the little we have, and the big wigs, the least said. If there is no cash left after tax payers’ sweats have been dole out to correct the errors committed by some few individuals, then it means that we have threatened the future of the on born, the no-dead-syndrome would still be unbridled and poor roads would still deplete Ghana’s heroes and heroine.

It is our earnest prayer that those involved in this saga shrinking of the public wallet to its infirmity would be nabbed and made to refund the monies and as well take their coffee break at Nsawam prison. If we cannot do this as a nation, we must go to Nsawam and beg all those who have been sentenced for stealing 10000 cedi and then crimes they may never committed did not.

We must shrike a Ghanaian balance to unclothe the misled fad out of the system.

The case is not rested!
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