PUBLICLY PUBLISH YOUR ASSETS NOW, MR. PRESIDENT!

So our president says he will not spare any corrupt officials? Well, to be really credible, President Mills must publicly publish the assets of himself, and that of his wife - and then order all the ministers, and district chief executives, and their spouses, to do same. That will put clear blue-water between him and the gentleman who preceded him as Ghana's president.

After that he must ensure that Parliament quickly passes a new law to make that standard practice in our nation's political life, henceforth. Then we will all know that he is really committed to fighting corruption in Ghana. Perhaps the question we should ask is: If the president is serious about not sparing corrupt officials, when precisely then does he intend to ask Ghana's Attorney General to prosecute Alhaji Muntaka, the former minister for youth and sports - who did not know the dividing line between expenses to do with the performance of his official duties and that of his personal household expenses: and also had the gall to use taxpayers' money to fund a trip to Germany by his girlfriend?

As we found out to our collective cost from our bitter experience with ex-President Kufour (who despite his many empty and hypocritical words about fighting corruption, actually superintended the transformation of our democracy into a kleptocracy - simply to enable him, the members of his family clan, his favourite traditional rulers, and his cronies to send their personal net worth into the stratosphere: by exploiting our national economy to the hilt), it is with deeds, not mere platitudes, that one wins the fight against corruption in Ghana.

That is why it so essential that President Mills makes the prosecution of Alhaji Muntaka, the former minister for youth and sports, a priority - and his prosecution must start as soon as it is practical to do so. That way, we will all be reassured that the Mills regime will not turn out to a MK11 version of the super-corrupt Kufuor era. A word to the wise...

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