How China can help end the corruption draining the lifeblood out of Mother Ghana

Friendship between the people of Ghana and China, and their two governments, go back decades, to the eras of President Nkrumah and Chairman Mao.

In that light, before China agrees to reschedule Ghana's debt to China,  President Xi must be a force for good for the people of Ghana - and demand that Parliament passes tough new anti-corruption measures, to protect the public purse from the rapacious, greed-filled rent-seeking state-capture big-thieves-in-high-places, who dominate Ghana's byzantine system, and are ripping-off Mother Ghana with total impunity.

Chief amongst the tough new anti-corruption legislation, must be the provision of prosecutorial powers for the Auditor General.

Secondly, the assets of all high level  public sector officials and their spouses must be publicly published, before they assume office, and immediately after their tenures end.

Thirdly, whistleblowers must be indemnified from prosecution and rewarded with 30 percent of recovered purloined state funds made possible as a result of their exposure of high-level  corruption by public officials and government ministers and appointees heading quangos.

That is how best China can help to protect the public purse in Ghana, and stem the tide of egregious high-level corruption draining the very lifeblood out of Mother Ghana.