When controversy erupted over the alleged use of Ghanaian taxpayers' money, to renovate the principal private residence of President Kufuor, at the early stages of his first term in office as Ghana's president, I wrote an article in support of the then government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), spending taxpayers' money to ensure the safety and security of President Kufuor and his family (if the allegation was a fact, ie).
Yet, as many knew at the time, prior to that article of mine in support of the use of state funds to ensure the personal safety of the then president and his household, at his Airport West residential area property, I had never hidden my personal loathing of President Kufuor - who I felt had let our nation down terribly for not publicly publishing his assets, together with that of his dear wife Theresa, as he promised he would: as a gesture to help fight corruption in our nation.
Ensuring the safety of its political leaders, is a duty that every nation on the surface of the planet Earth, takes seriously - and it is typical of the corruption and dishonesty prevalent amongst Ghanaian journalists and in some of the country's media houses, that some of those who supported the use of state funds to provide adequate security for President Kufuor, when the NPP was in power, are now seeking to make political capital out of a purely private arrangement, between a private commercial entity and those in charge of the president of Ghana's security - arrived at so as to make life bearable for the security detail protecting the principal private residence of President Mills.
The management of Regimanuel Gray Limited, deserve to be congratulated for deciding to take the necessary steps to help resolve a problem, which had hitherto bedevilled those guarding Ghana's president's principal private residence - when it is the Ghanaian nation-state that ought to have done so, in the first place.
Naturally, having Ghana's president as one of their tenants, is prestigious for them - and adds considerable value to their brand. So it makes business sense to do all they can to ensure that he continues to live in one of their properties. Housing the president's security detail in decent quarters, is a win-win outcome that more or less guarantees that.
As for those pro-NPP journalists and Ghanaian media houses that sought to make political capital out of it, to serve the interests of their paymasters (to whom they have sold their conscience), one can only say in passing, that as always, it escapes those mostly third-rate individuals and unprofessional media houses, that in the internet age, their lack of professionalism is on display daily, all over the world - and their lack of integrity noted too, worldwide, on a daily basis (and in fairness, it must be stated that the same can be said of most of the pro-National Democratic Congress journalists and media houses, too).
They had better change, become more professional and let ethics underpin all their work - whiles the opportunity to leave a legacy they can be proud of when they finally retire, and which will enable posterity judge their professional work kindly, remains open for them.
Their disgraceful attempt to question the personal integrity of Ghana's president and some of those around him, by the falsehood they put out as fact, is yet another news story that illustrates perfectly the lack of personal integrity in so many in the Ghanaian media world.
Quiet frankly, some of what they get up to is often disreputable, and blackmail being a crime, on occasion, borders on the criminal - and is a great disservice to Mother Ghana: and a betrayal of the good people of Nkrumah's Ghana. It is time they changed for the better.
A word to the wise...
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