It is the duty of every Ghanaian to be critical of government, yes critical but constructive.
The fact that one criticizes does not mean he is possessed by the opposition. If that is the case then students who are chastised either verbally or physically (canning) should leave the school with immediate effect because their teacher(s) hate them.
I am very surprised at people in government Messrs. Bartidam and Koku Anyidoho for their recently attack on Prof. Kwesi Yankah. Mr. Bartidam an anti-corruption campaigner surprises me for his all righteous and knowledgeable stance. Maybe he has lost sight of the Akan adage “the one constructing a road does not know his back is not straight”.
Mr. Bartidam was referred to as having lost the steam since joining the ruling government as adviser on corruption. He was not alone; he was criticized with Mr. Yaw Boabeng-Asamoah an NPP anti-corruption campaigner who also allegedly lost his bite when his party NPP was in power.
If I was Mr. Bartidam, this would be a wake-up call since my work would be appraised by people and not myself. We agree that we need institutions to fight corruption but for you to refer to Prof. Yankah as somebody who just open his mouth is a minus to you. If you say the president is no judge and institutions should deal with corruption then you have lost your steam indeed, with your knowledge of the enormous power our constitution gives the president.
Were you not trained that whatever you do people will criticize you and that if everybody celebrated you then you are obviously standing for nothing and falling for everything. Next time you are criticized which I’m sure you will, weigh the criticisms and see what lessons you can take from it.
For Mr. Anyidoho, maybe I should not be surprised. If insulting respected people and defending the indefensible is the way he would catch the eye of the president why not. Ever since the exit of his “Godfather” Prof Mills, he has been treated like the bad stepchild. The president has overlooked him in all appointments. His way of staying relevant in Ghanaian politics was to contest for a party position.
We were all in Ghana when he abused all powers; he could hire and fire at will using all media. But how true are they “the prince is the one whose father is alive”.
Mr. Anyidoho tell us, what the NDC has done to fight corruption so that Prof. Yankah can keep quiet, what has become of SADA, GYEEDA, SUBAH, RLG, ASONTABA, NPA rent saga, the sale of Merchant Bank.
Do you think if you were considering a “SMART” development project fencing of a cemetery would be one of them? (SMART, borrowed from the president’s may day speech). How much was given to the Central Regional Development Commission and what projects has been done to for the benefit of the citizens.
Before describing Prof. Yankah as someone speaking at a chop bar drinking palm wine you should have told as what NDC would be doing to people such as Mr. Barton-odro, Mrs. Iddrissu who aided people in collecting undeserved monies from the state. Not forgetting the babies with sharp teethe who made calls to Mr. Amidu to authorise payment of judgment debt to companies of their cronies.
Koku, did you not hear your former President and founder of NDC saying 60% of government appointees are corrupt, what description do you give him? Or you just found your voice also.
Ethiopia built 3 international airports from scratch with $100 million; kindly give us an itemized bill of the $29 million that went into the rehabilitation of the Kumasi domestic airport. The $ 400 million supposed emergency power barges stink with corruption proves us wrong. If it is not corruption kindly allow ECG, GRIDCO and VRA tell us what the power problems are. After all they are also institutions that have been set and must work just as the darling GNPC of politicians.
You call all who speak the truth opposition, does it mean there is no single person in the NDC truthful. You can describe me as anything but I belong to a school that won’t keep quiet anymore for politicians to take us for a ride. We are preparing the mind of people who will vote out any government that fails after 4 years.
Ghana is no school where leaders who fail would be asked to repeat when they fail. Failure means suspensions. We are working toward the day when competent people can become president as independent candidates.
And kind advice senior men you willingly decided to serve us therefore don’t be too quick to act as if we forced or begged you to serve us. We will not keep quite whoever criticizes wants the best of Ghana.
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