CHANGE HAS INDEED COME AS THE CULTURE OF RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IS RESTORED IN OUR BODY POLITIC AND GOVERNANCE REGIME

CHANGE HAS INDEED COME AS THE CULTURE OF RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IS RESTORED IN OUR BODY POLITIC AND GOVERNANCE REGIME

Throughout history, the narrative has always been that, in other jurisdictions, politicians and in particular, holders of public offices, TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY for their actions or utterances and face the consequences thereof. But in this part of our world, particularly in Africa and Ghana, the story is one of exact opposite. Almost all our politicians have absolutely no regard for PRINCIPLES. They inflict untold hardship on us. They care little about the suffering masses.

They steal our money left-right-and-centre and when we complain, they insult us on top of that. They often act "very dishonourably" and with so much impunity. The ONLY TIME they get to account to us is when their party lose elections. That is the only time their secret dealings become public and they get to take full responsibility for their acts of indiscretion, stealing and causing financial loss to the State. Examples, you would agree with me, abound, but the current developing story regarding the daylight robbery at SSNIT, summarizes the Ghanaian sad story. These mind blowing revelations would never have come to the limelight for you and me to know, if the NDC had not lost the 2016 elections. That is the Ghanaian story I'm talking about. How sad!

But the good news is that this story is now CHANGING for the better. It is changing not by luck but because we now have a regime that is committed to changing it and ensuring that our politicians, particularly holders of public offices are RESPONSIBLE and ACCOUNTABLE to the citizenry. It is changing because this regime would NOT TOLERATE people who make reckless comments and act irresponsibly. It is changing because the system is such that, every corrupt official would definitely get exposed and dealt with in accordance with law.

It is changing because this regime has made it so. And that is the NPP regime under the distinguished stewardship of His Excellency President Nana Akufo-Addo and Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. You can't steal the taxpayers' money and get away with it. You cannot also just say anything or make any allegations and get away with it. Not in an Akufo-Addo's Ghana. You would necessarily be made to substantiate all your allegations whether you are an Abronye DC, an A+, or a Kennedy Agyapong.

You would also lose your job if you make reckless comments or involve yourself in tribal bigotry as it happened to the Deputy Agric Minister, Hon. William Quaitoo. This hardworking Deputy Minister of State, regrettably, had to lose his job because he had made comments deemed reckless and ethnocentric against people of northern descent even though he had apologized profusely and with remorse. The Akufo-Addo's regime would have none of that and so, the gentleman had to just go.

This clearly sends a signal to all his appointees and the general public that the days of 'babies with sharp teeth' and vitriolic tongues are OVER. It also tells us that people now take FULL RESPONSIBILITY for their responsible IRRESPONSIBILITY, which is a sharp departure from the culture of impunity we had seen especially in the past 8 years. It is also a departure from the days where government officials, after being fired, surreptitiously get REASSIGNED to the Flagstaff House. We are therefore now in a regime of responsibility and accountability. That is the CHANGE we have yearned for and that is the CHANGE we have in President Akufo-Addo and the NPP government. I can now say with pride that I AM A GHANAIAN..

Assalamu alaik

Iddi Muhayu-Deen

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