Our Presidency Really A Contender In Infamous Duel of Corruption
As if raking our already festering moral wound, and doing it harder this time, a new Afrobarometer study report released after study undertaken by the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) is implicating the Ghanaian presidency, as second most corrupt, a situation so terrifying and image-denting.
Ghanaians, indeed, might be feeling ashamed in the face of this that could paint the presidency, a citadel of integrity and sovereign respect, as worthless in substance, but matter.
The fear is that if nation’s presidency of all places or institutions achieves the infamy of being such corrupt, coming straight as first runner-up on the heels of the country’s police service already and annually wallowing in the underhand dealing, as bribery and in some cases, sheer extortion of cash and or kind received under duress, people believe must be a curse upon that institution demanding rigorous exorcising, then citizens would soon be walking face-down in shame.
In the new release that affirmed the Ghana Police Service and the Office of the President being perceived as the country’s most corrupt institutions scored the Police 65% placing it at the top of the chain while the Presidency followed in second position with 55%, a thunderbolt of a sort that must burst protected egos of religiously-protected goodmanism.
While the Anchor would vouch, with all the sinews it could muster for the President’s clean hands, the paper would urge the President, Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to start looking within in resolute efforts of removing the monkey’s hand from the soup before it becomes human’s hand.
The Anchor believed Nana when he vowed to protect the national purse; the same way the paper believes government could be like a forest – watching it from afar makes it a single great green mountain, but nearer to it reveals it being just mass of individual trees of different species. It is the reason we plead with His Excellency to try hard and either weed or cut away the morally-hostile shrubs before they end up mowing him down.
The report, which also placed members of Parliament as the third group of people in the pack with a score of 54%, per assessment, cited positive ratings of the President’s performance declined by 31 percentage points between 2019 and 2022, from 61% to 30%.
Judges and magistrates, tax officials and the Electoral Commission followed suit in that order.The project bordered on democratic governance, trust in institutions and corruption.The research sampled nationally representative respondents of adult citizens selected at random.
It cited also the almighty Electoral Commission and, in fact, the private media. But it is not funny.But hey, the presidency represents the face of Ghana, and, therefore, needs a quick redemption from the looming shame. According to the report, trust in the Presidency declined also by 25% between 2019 and 2022.
Source: Anchorghana
