A few days ago I was listening to a man of God preaching powerfully on radio. He gave direction to his church at Adabraka for a prayer service, and promised that the blind will see, the lame will walk, and other problems would be solved. I was, however, not too enthused about the problem the pastor had in pronouncing words with letters “L” and “R”.
He called out his phone number as zerlo, two, four, four, six, zerlo, seven, seven, zerlo, one. Even though I was planning to attend his service, I almost got discouraged when the preacher mentioned his name as Arch Bishop Fraudie Bray! Fraud? I asked myself; but on a second thought I changed my mind since spirituality has nothing to do with the way people pronounce words.
I went to the church the next day, and in the midst of prayers, a member of the prayer warrior team touched my shoulder and started praying in tongues: “Shatakayaba, sokoto kaya babababa,” “My brother, you’ll walk ok,” he said. I didn’t understand what he meant; and even though I have no disability problem, with faith, I shouted, “Amen!” The prayer session was over, and when I got out of the church, my transport money had been stolen and I had to walk home, then I understood the prayer warrior.
Hehehehe, folks, this article is a bit long, but don’t stop midway, there is rado, rado, zo at the bottom.
On a more serious note, I’m deeply worried about the behaviour of some people in this country. I don’t understand why Opananom in their insatiable quest for power and in the spirit of at all costs, would want to run down government and the country at large. It makes me feel giddy; I think reprimanding them is indispensably necessary, and I have no scruples about that at all.
Not too long ago, Transparency International (TI) released a report on Corruption, which was conducted in some 28 African countries. This report was not an index and did not seek to rank countries in order of perception of corruption as it’s most often done. The simple and straightforward question of the survey was: How has the level of corruption in this country changed over the past year – increased, decreased or stayed the same?
Sadly and unfortunately enough, yaanom and their rented press peddled falsehood that Ghana is the second most corrupt nation in Africa. But do we have to blame them? No, I won’t! They are behaving like a drowning person who would hopelessly grasp at straws for survival.
Yes, it is true that corruption is a serious issue, and that there is no way a country can develop with such a destructive tendency; and as much as yaanom want to use that as their vital campaign message in 2016, I can say with my chest out that, no government in the history of Ghana can match the record of the Mahama government in connection with the fighting of corruption. And I will prove it.
In President Mahama’s quest to fight corruption, a National Anti-Corruption Action Plan (NACAP for short) was developed in 2012, and adopted by the Parliament of Ghana following intensive consultations at the national, regional and district levels to combat corruption in Ghana for the next ten years. NACAP covers the control of corruption in both the public and private sector. It embraces the activities of State and non-state actors regardless of gender, age, local or international status.
A High Level Implementation Committee (HiLIC) for NACAP, chaired by the Chief of Staff, draws its membership from a cream of institutions, agencies and civil society groups comprising representatives from CHRAJ, Office of the President, Parliament of Ghana, Economic and Organised Crime Office, National Development Planning Commission, Public Services Commission, Attorney-General’s Department, Africa Peer Review Mechanism (Ghana), Ministry of Finance, Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition, Ghana Integrity Initiative, Centre for Democracy and Development, Private Enterprises Federation, Development Partners and Anti-Corruption Experts and Practitioners.
Furthermore, one significant achievement of the present Government which is unprecedented in the history of Ghana is the fight against payroll fraud. Pragmatic measures has been taken in this area of fraud and abuse of state resources through the design and implementation of effective preventive measures in the public sector financial management systems. It is heartwarming to note that this intervention is yielding fruits; a good number of “ghost names” have been removed from our payroll, and gargantuan sums of money recovered.
With regards to the National Service Scheme investigations, the BNI and the Attorney General are almost concluding investigations into allegations of corruption (padding of salaries or “ghost names”) and prosecutions are ongoing.
Additionally, 163 personnel of the Scheme have been dismissed and over 18.5million cedis has, so far, been recovered to the state, and 33 officials including the former Executive Director and his Deputy have been arraigned before Court while about 130 others are to be prosecuted.
In terms of GYEEDA, a number of persons, including the former CEO, are being prosecuted. Investigations of other persons implicated in the GYEEDA matter have concluded and are pending prosecutions. Still on GYEEDA, with regards to loans illegally granted to some service providers, the state has been able to recover an amount of GHC 20,449,368.44 in relation to the various modules from Asongtaba Cottage Industries, RLG Communications and Craft PRO Ltd.
His Excellency has asked the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) and the Attorney General to ensure that they are able to recover the outstanding balance of about GHC 40.5 Million from the said companies by close of the year.
Other high profile corruption cases, or cases of causing financial losses ongoing are The Republic vrs Alfred Agbesi Woyome, The Republic vrs Ben Atsu Elleblu, Robert Azumah, and Christopher Elleblu and many others.
Kikikikikiki, but friends, the truth is that if you want the headquarters of corruption, never look elsewhere other than Bishop Fraudie Bray’s Indefinite Suspension Ministries International (ISMI) at Adabraka where opening of secret bank accounts and other corrupt practices are rife.
I asked some people yesterday whether it is true that corruption started from Adam; they told me they don’t know, and that I should ask K4. But whatever the case, I don’t think Adam and Eve would be happy with a corruption tag. Hehehehe, I reject that on their behalf.
