The frustration felt by the ruling National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) hardliners, many of whom are disappointed that two years into their government’s tenure, the Attorney General has still not prosecuted any of the powerful crooks, who once dominated the Kufuor regime (and exploited our nation’s economy for their private benefit!), is obvious to all Ghanaians. In a sense, their frustration with the Attorney General, illustrates perfectly, their lack of appreciation of the fact that democracies, are by definition, ponderous systems of government – resulting from the many limitations the constitution places, at every turn, on the actions of those who hold power in our country today. The painful truth is that those who took part in the brutal gang-rape of Mother Ghana during the tenure of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), are past masters of the art and science of the manipulation of the law – and will use their ill-gotten wealth to exploit every legal loophole there is, to ensure that they protect and hold on to the huge ill-gotten wealth that remains hidden in the many offshore entities they set up whiles in power. They will continue using legal proxies to enable them successfully hide their fortunes from prying eyes, till the law eventually catches up with them.
Clearly, it must be doubly irritating for the NDC’s hardliners that the powerful crooks from yesteryear are also using that self-same ill-gotten wealth to make sure that the many dishonest journalists, whose consciences they bought whiles in power, continue to remain firmly on-side – and willingly help them to successfully fool Ghanaians about the real nature of their illegal activities whiles in power. My humble advice to the hardliners in President Mills’ party, is to rather use their abundant energies to do some creative thinking – and get President Mills to set up a special fund: from which Ghanaians providing information that will lead to the unraveling of the many crooked deals from which the powerful crooks from yesteryear made their fortunes (and which will lead to their successful prosecution!), will be amply compensated.
They will find that it will bring a rush of individuals with valuable information from the woodwork – all looking for some easy money their greedy paymasters will now not give them as willingly as they used to do in the past. The painful truth, is that, sadly, under our present system, there is no way the Attorney General can rush to prosecute a gang of super-clever white-collar criminals, who have judges, whom when they thought no one was listening in to their little conspiracy to deny Ghanaians their vote during the December 2008 run-off for the presidential election, the Atta Akyeas and Malik Alhassan Yakubus referred to as the “right judges” (members of the judiciary who presumably can always be relied on by the NPP to make the right kind of judgments in their hour of need!) ”) still firmly on-side, without thorough investigations. Thorough investigations as we all know, dear reader, do actually take a fair bit of time – so let the NDC’s hardliners be a little bit more patient! A word to the wise….
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