“If you focus on Martin’s retracted comment and not on the real scandal that the President isn’t addressing, you’re part of why Ghana is sinking!” – Kwaku Antwi-Boasiako posted on Facebook. He is right. You are actually a part of the syndicate enabling the looting you pretend to denounce but that only gets worse as recent survey confirm.

Some dislike the idea of allowing a “criminal”, especially the big thieves involved in corruption offences, to simply pay back and walk free. This dispensation has existed in Ghana since 1993 in a scant section 35 of the Courts Act. It allows for compensation and restitution by the accused person. You plead guilty; you get convicted but not sentenced by the Court.

There is a security concern about this title. But I will explain at the end of this presentation because I obviously cannot mean it literally as in a coup.

People see you. Yes, those friends and neighbours put up smiles but have questions. They know that you could not afford much until your party came to power. Yes, for some of you, they know you could not even secure a bank loan for a ¢50,000 car.

Today, I share part of a presentation made by Bright Simons, Honorary Vice President of IMANI Africa, last week on Newsfile. He analysed issues arising about accountability and transparency in procurement for the controversial National Cathedral.

Often, even very serious issues on crime and officialdom misconduct are raised in the media but left to die without the necessary sustained advocacy for action, remedial or otherwise.
I doubt Ghanaians find this okay if these issues flagged by Bright Simons are what they are.

President Akufo Addo was spot on when he declared that the Right To Information (RTI) Act, 2019 (Act 989), was the mother of all anti-corruption laws. The 1992 Constitution, article 21, commanded its passage. Strangely, however, it took some two decades of a vigorous sustained campaign to get it passed.

About a decade ago, I hosted a heated debate on this show about public office holders grabbing state lands waa waa waa and for a pittance. It was turned into the usual ugly mindless nation-wrecking political equalization game. NPP officials who stood accused dug out documents pointing to NDC officials as having also benefited from a similar scheme.