Is there any way the government of Ghana can possibly assist Menzgold's victims? There are some in Ghana who posit that if the government wants to find creative ways to help retrieve some of the money Menzgold's much-traumatised victims have lost, it must begin by locating any assets that Nana Appiah Mensah owns overseas.
Lawyers for the victims cold then go after those assets in the law courts of the jurisdictions they are located in. Not a bad idea, actually. The question is: Did Menzgold repatriate all the $60 million it made officially from the gold it has apparently exported over the past five years - and if not, what exactly did it do with all that money? Good question.
And should the authorities not persuade Nana Appiah Mensah to reveal all the bribes he offered to currupt individuals whose help he needed, and the disloyal payments he made over the years, to enable him grow his brand and obtain credibility that way? Could it be the case, for example, that he paid bribes to be allowed to sponsor the premiere league - by the greedy mafia that controlled the Ghana Football Association (GFA) during the now-discredited Kwesi Nyantakyi era?
Ditto funded public oficials, inividual politicians and political parties too? And should all those disloyal and illegal payments not be recovered and distributed to Menzgold's hapless victims? Hmmm, Oman Ghana - eye asem o: asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa.
Instead of turning this terrible tragedy - that has resulted in many financially-unsophisticated individuals being ruined - into political football, our nation"s politicians ought to rather collaborate to help Menzgold's victims retrieve some of the money, which that opaque company's promoters allegedly duped them out of.
Perhaps as a people, the question we must pose to ourselves is: Must we allow members of our nation's political class to turn the Mengold fraud into a political football - in order to enable them score cheap propaganda points? No. Definitely, not. Haaba.
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