It is very common to hear people talking about massive corruption in the system and many condemned it in no uncertain terms which is good and must be encouraged.?
However, all is just vanity upon vanity and upon vanity. I am saying this because those who are accusing others of corrupt practices in the system are more corrupt than others in secrecy and lack the morale to comment on such issues.
One can hear people?accusing governments upon governments of corrupt practices but hey is not only the government and I can tell you that the ordinary citizens on the streets like the taxi drivers, the shoemaker, the seller, the ?kayaye?, the judiciary, the secretaries and the workers in various offices (governmental or private), you just name them are corrupt just like the leaders so none of them is better.
Corruption cut across every spheres in our life; starting from the very smallest unit of human habitation (family level) to the top (government officials) and in fact corruption I can confidently say begins from our homes/families. That president, minister, chief director, the village chief, the ordinary worker and the ordinary person on the streets were raised from homes/families and if we are all nurtured and cultured with best values which frown upon corrupt activities right from home, we are more likely to experience low level of corruption but this is not the case and we now find ourselves in this mess as a nation.
We know political leaders across all successive governments who should know better selling state/government bungalows, lands, drill ships like how tomatoes and peppers are sold on the streets of Ghana and we also see government officials, for their parochial interest, pay undeserved judgement debts running into billions of Ghana Cedis many times to people for no work done or contracts with the governments and in the same country, we have citizens who can’t afford two square meal per day.
We need to go beyond the talk and take pragmatic approach to solving this menace.
A complete revolution of the system is needed at this crossroads but we don’t need guns, bombs, knives, cutlasses, stones, sticks to carry out this revolution in the 21st century. What we need is complete change in our attitudes and behaviours of the citizenry towards more transparent operations in the system across all levels of the sectors in the country and at the same time holding our leaders accountable and responsible for their actions and inaction without looking at one’s political, ethnic, religious or societal colours.
No single country can develop in the presence of massive corruption as it promotes looting of state assets and unfavourable favouritism to others leading to low productivity and also de-motivates better and potential investors from genuine investments in the country.
It may look like Ghana is in trouble spot but it does not mean Ghana is in flame.
You and I can bring the change we want to see tomorrow by taking the needed action today in our own small way and I believe others can follow.
Thank you.
Justice Moses K. Aheto.
United Kingdom.
