I couldn't help smiling, as I read an article entitled: “Ghana’s financial sector heads for crisis”, which appeared in the business section of the general news web-page of www.ghanaweb.com of Tuesday, 15 September 2009. Unfortunately, the Byzantine world of Ghana's financial services sector is said to be full of "insider-dealing" rogues - and apparently even little school children in Ghana are said to be aware of the incestuous relationships that exist between some regulators and many industry players.
As a wag once said: "There is no self-respecting ex-central bank governor in this country who does not either own a bank, or has a significant stake, in one. It is an intolerable situation, really!" Sadly, most of our financial services sector is a murky world in which ethics and corporate good governance principles are total strangers to many who work in it. In comparison to those ever-so-respectable hypocritical rogues in our financial services sector, the greedy and double-dealing moguls in Wall Street and elsewhere in the financial capitals of the Western world are veritable saints.
The Titans in the industry benefited mightily (in the zillions in fat fees that they earned as "transaction advisers") from the massive debt piled up by the Kufuor regime - as the perfidious Kufuor & Co. turned our democracy into a kleptocracy: and proceeded to milk our country dry, in order to send the personal net worth of the favoured tribal-supremacist princes and princesses of Kufuor's golden age of business (naturally, strictly for the family and friends of our then Hypocrite-in-Chief!), into the stratosphere.
Although it’s hard to believe, there are even persistent rumours that depositors’ money in some mutual funds was tapped to fund the electioneering campaign in the December 2008 election! Hmm, Ghana, eyeasem oo - esem ebaba debi ankasa! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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Hi Kofi,
This is Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro, and I endorse the following statement of yours that appeared as a comment on Ghanaweb.com, under my rejoinder, Kwesi Pratt Is No Mystery! Thanks for the insight! You are thinking farther than me, but it gives so much practical energy to all what I know and believe to be what Ghana is waiting for! Thank you very much! God bless you for your words of wisdom and encouragement, and for all your good works! Long live Ghana! Long live Africa! Forward Ever! Backwards Never!
Comment: Hmmm, Ghana- eyeasem oo!
Author: Kofi Thompson.
Date: 2009-09-15 13:15:42
NO ONE IS PERFECT - WHICH IS WHY MR. PRATT WILL MAKE A DYNAMIC PRESIDENT OF GHANA!
No one is perfect - and whatever his faults as a human being, the political animal, Comrade Kwesi Pratt, would make the perfect presidential candidate for the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) in the December 2012 elections.
Kwesi Pratt dwarfs all the leaders we have had since Nkrumah's overthrow (by the stooges for neocolonialism who were paid US$13 millions to set our nation and Africa back centuries), in that CIA-sponsored military coup in 1966.
All genuine Nkrumaists must work hard to ensure that he becomes the CPP's presidential candidate in December 2012 - so that Ghana finally gets a government headed by someone blessed with abundant self-belief (and abiding faith in the abilities of the black race), which will transform our united nation of diverse-ethnicity into an African equivalent of the egalitarian societies of Scandinavia! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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