The cat is out of the bag. Ghanaians now know why Martin Amidu fell out with the late President John Evans Atta Mills. The knowledge is refreshing and revealing.
The lead story in yesterday?s issue of this newspaper is a sad reflection of what governance has been reduced to in this country. The revelation, supported by authentic documentation in the possession of the newspaper, representing correspondences sent to the Chief of Staff and copied officials like the National Security Coordinator, is an issue which we overlook at the peril of the national interest.
It is one of those stories which should push the citizens of this country to reflect on the fate of this country as she labours under an unusual spate of corruption at the summit of public service.
It should attract the attention of all Ghanaians whose future is being undermined by a gargantuan spate of corruption. The cover-up of the financial malfeasance which is now the face of the NDC government is beyond compare and regrettably, the late President and top functionaries like the Chief of Staff, John H.M. Newman, who made it possible, added a touch of irony to the graft, given their positions as protectors of the public purse.
We are saddened by the fact that three cases of corruption were not prosecuted even when, in the estimation of the then Attorney General, that was the natural course and the most acceptable path to traverse.
For every bad situation such as being visited on Ghana, there comes an opportunity to reverse the anomalous circumstances. The correspondences from Martin Amidu to the Chief of Staff, who should bury his head in shame, are telltales of the crop of Ghanaians at the helm. Do we have to proceed further afield in seeking answers to the challenges impeding our progress as a nation?
Why a President would prevent an Attorney General from prosecuting cases whose dockets were ready for such a legal procedure is sufficient proof of a subtle acceptance of corruption and financial malfeasance under the NDC government.
?The Deputy Attorney General was instructed by the President to take control of the three dockets which he did on 22nd July 2011 from the D.P.P.?s office to prevent prosecutions).?
The foregone refers to how the late President Mills ordered the dockets on the corruption-ridden transactions involving the smelly procurement of ten firefighting motorbikes, missing twelve million pound IFC support for the Ghana Oil Palm Oil Development Corporation and the EO Group indemnity issue.
As for the role of the Chief of Staff in the web of corruption opposition which cost Mr. Martin Amidu his job, posterity would judge him as it would all those who played parts in the graft.
Now, we know more than before why the Woyome issue is being provided a subtle redoubt at the highest level of government. For the umpteenth time, all we can say is God save this country of ours.
