I read the comments of Mr. Mahama Ayariga, the president’s spokesperson, which the Ghana News Agency (GNA) reported, and were posted on the general news web-page of www.ghanaweb.com, on Monday, 11th May 2009, with considerable interest. Sometimes one wonders why so many of those who speak for the new administration, allow themselves to be led round in circles by those in the opposition, who have resorted to lying as a political weapon and propaganda tool.
It is such a pity that those who speak on behalf of the Mills administration are unable to set the national agenda, as far as open discourse in the political sphere, is concerned. Instead of wasting precious time playing the daft comparison game, they must get their regime to quickly get parliament to pass a new law that makes it mandatory for all the members of the government and their spouses, to publicly publish their assets. They must also take up Dr. Tony Aidoo’s brilliant idea – and take it a step further, by getting parliament to pass a new law that makes it mandatory for the government of the day, to publicly publish the cost to the nation of all official trips abroad, undertaken by the president and the ministers in his regime.
As soon as both laws are finally put into place, it will allow them to occupy the high moral ground in Ghanaian politics – and virtually make their regime unassailable in Ghanaian politics. When that happy day arrives, they can then rebut all the nonsense on bamboo stilts that the lies published by some newspapers today, represents, by making the point that they are busy ushering in an era of true transparency, to help fight corruption in Ghana, and will not waste precious time responding to those who still live in the past: and seek to destabilize our nation for base parochial ends by spinning lies, whiles President Mills works hard to build a better Ghana, for all its citizens.
Transparency and ethical behaviour, is what the crooks amongst those who used to rule our country in the past (and gang-raped mother Ghana so brutally), fear most from a Mills presidency – and it is those two virtues, which, if adopted by our new rulers, and demonstrated clearly to Ghanaians in all their actions during their tenure, will put clear blue water between their regime and that of the largely discredited New Patriotic Party (NPP). Sadly, that party appears to have been hijacked by a small group of the nastiest of the many Akan tribal-supremacists in it – which has now occasioned a friend resorting to describing it as: “That dreadful party of Akan tribal-supremacists.”
Such people fear nothing more than the spotlight being shone on the secrecy that usually shrouds the activities of those whom we elect to run our country – and enabled some of them to rob our nation through the opaque offshore vehicles they specifically set up for that purpose. The Mills administration must make the business of the running of our state machinery a truly transparent and ethical one – if they want to stay permanently one step ahead of their political opponents. They must conserve their energies for attaining that goal before the end of their four-year tenure – and leave the inanities of the well-educated morons amongst our previous rulers, who incredibly seem to think that all Ghanaians are stupid, and can be tricked into voting them back into power again in 2012, if they trap them in the massuve web of deceit, which they are busy spinning at the moment, through their mercenary lackeys in the media.
Luckily, not all Ghanaians are the "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" myrmidon-types, who wear blinkers permanently, and are too thick to be independent-minded. It is their blind support for political parties, when such parties eventually win power, which ends up destroying them. The new Mills administration must concentrate on leaving a legacy of true transparency behind. If it works hard to win the hearts and minds of those who wanted change in December 2008, and voted for their party to make that happen, by being honest stewards of our nation's resources, all the sophism in the world that is deployed by the shameless individuals and media outlets, now seeking to paint them black, will get those saboteurs absolutely nowhere. If they fail our homeland Ghana however, they must remember that some of us are standing by, ready to criticize them in the harshest possible terms. A word to the wise…
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