Will Ghanaians Experience Rule By Saints Under An NPP regime If Its Candidate Wins The November Presidential Election?

The propensity for Ghanaian politicians to take ordinary people for granted, is truly amazing.  For example, why are so many highly-intelligent politicians carrying on as if ordinary people can be fooled permanently into thinking that there will be rule by saints, if the candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP),  wins the November presidential election?

As the largest opposition party, it is in the national interest that the NPP never ceases to expose high-level corruption in Ghana - but should it continue to take Ghanaians for granted, by remaining silent on the issue of political parties publicly publishing all their sources of funding,  as an effective anti-corruption measure, whiles constantly making allegations that the current government is corrupt?

Do the NPP's leaders not realise the vital need for politicians running for office in a Ghana in which high-level corruption is endemic to publicly publish their assets and those of their spouses - as an anti-corruption measure? Why not commit to doing so to help end high-level corruption in Ghana, if they are sincere about fighting corruption in Ghana, when they are voted  into power again?

To demonstrate to Ghanaians that he is serious about fighting corruption, and that he will not tolerate corruption in his administration, if he is elected as Ghana's president, in November, why does Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo (a good and decent gentleman who by all accounts is incorruptible) not follow Nigeria's President Buhari's example - and publicly publish the assets of both himself and his wife: as a symbolic act to show his commitment to transparency and accountability?

And why does he not also demand that his running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, and his wife, do so too - and promise that he will make that a precondition for  all public-sector appointments made in his administration during his tenure as President?

Furthermore, since this is a nation teeming with millions of highly-intelligent and educated young voters, concerned about their individual futures, why is the biggest opposition party not addressing the issues that actually matter, if there is to be a paradigm shift in Ghana's real economy, and the ethos underpinning governance in the country?

How is the NPP going to turn a highly-indebted Ghana into a prosperous society successfully?

Unfortunately, as things currently stand, our homeland Ghana must be the only democracy in the world, in which the main opposition party, expects to coast to victory in the presidential election, simply by criticising the governing party endlessly - without once telling voters exactly what their alternative policies (to the many things they criticise the current government for), actually are. Incredible.

And in which Western democracy will a serious contender for the presidency, campaign across the country,  asking voters at rally venues to give him or her a chance and "try" him or her as president, instead of outlining his or her plans for the country, who will not immediately be ridiculed - and dismissed by the media as a most unsuitable leader to run that nation?

Yet that is the appeal that the advisors of the NPP's presidential candidate, are asking him to make to voters, across the country. Amazing.

The question is: Has the time not come for discerning young Ghanaians - who are serious and independent-minded thinkers - to focus on the NPP's presidential candidate, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, and his running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia: and ponder over their strange and deafening silence, on the critical issues that actually matter, if real change is to occur in Ghana after the November presidential election?

Take the issue of high-level corruption - the virulent  cancer destroying our country - for example.

What is significant about Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, and his running mate Dr. Bawumia, as well as their dissembling underlings, such as the garrulous John Boadus and Sammy Awukus, on the issue of corruption, is that thus far, not a single one of them has stated categorically, that every individual appointed to a public-sector position, in their government after 7/1/2017, will have to publicly publish his or her assets, as well as that of their spouse, before their tenure, and immediately after the end of their period in office - and that they themselves will do so too: as their contribution to the fight against high-level corruption.

Neither have any of the NPP's leading lights ever stated publicly, that they will publicly publish all the sources of funding for their party's presidential and parliamentary elections - to show the world that they are a truly transparent and accountable political party: as opposed to the opaque National Democratic Congress (NDC) regime of President Mahama that their party wants to replace as the governing party.

Yet, without such anti-corruption measures in place, the super-wealthy thieves amongst our nation's vampire-elites will continue appropriating Ghana's wealth for themselves, even after the NPP  comes to power.

The question that every young person voting for the first time, and desirous of real change in Ghana, after the November presidential election, ought to ponder over is: Why the deafening silence by the NPP, and its presidential candidate, and his running mate, about the importance of politicians in Ghana publicly publishing their assets and those of their spouses, immediately before assuming office, and immediately after the end of their tenures?

There will be no real change in Ghana if Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo becomes president in January 2017, if the NPP and its presidential candidate, and his running mate, do not publicly publish the sources of the party's campaign funds - as well as the personal assets of all the NPP's presidential and parliamentary candidates, and their spouses, before the November elections.

That is why voters must focus on the continuing deafening silence of the NPP about publicly publishing all the sources of funding for the party's candidates for the November presidential and parliamentary elections, as well as publicly publishing the personal assets of those candidates and their spouses.

Discerning young voters ought to understand clearly that nothing will change in Ghana, as far as the fight against corruption is concerned, if the NPP's leadership fails this litmus test of demonstrating the party's commitment to ending high-level corruption in Ghana, should it win power after the November presidential election.

Simply put, no one in Ghana must expect rule by saints,  should the NPP come to power after the November elections - in light of their deafening silence on the matter.

It is pretty obvious that for some extraordinary reason, the party's candidates for the November presidential and parliamentary elections, are unwilling to publicly publish the sources of the party's funding. Neither is the NPP willing to publicly publish the personal assets of those selfsame candidates, and their spouses, too.

Whatever be the reason for their reluctance to demonstrate their commitment to transparency and accountability in such practical fashion, that reluctance is not a very good sign, alas.

Perhaps #OccupyGhana can establish its moral authority by demanding (on behalf of ordinary people) that the NPP should publicly publish all the sources of its funding - and that all its candidates for the presidential and parliamentary elections publicly publish their assets as well as that of their spouses, before this November's elections? It should demand same from all the other political parties, too, incidentally.

It is said that coming events cast their shadows. No prudent young Ghanaian voter should overlook the NPP's deafening silence about publicly publishing the sources of its election campaign funds, and publicly publishing the assets of all its candidates for the November presidential and parliamentary elections, and their spouses, when considering who to vote for in that election (especially when Freddie Blay, its 'saintly' acting national chairperson, has stated categorically that the NPP has no intention of doing so).c

Clearly, Ghanaians will not experience rule by saints, under an NPP regime, after January 2017, should the party win the November presidential election.

This blog  confidently predicts that the create-loot-and-share phenomenom will be far worse under an NPP administration. The signs are there for all those with eyes to see that clearly for themselves: How many secret banks accounts does the NPP have - and who and whom in that party operate those funds - and why? And why were Paul Afoko and Kwabena Adjapong hounded out of their positions when they tried to stop the operation of secret NPP bank accounts? Hmm Ghana, eyeasem o: asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa.