Well...I hope I did the right and it winds up where it's supposed to be...
Ghanaian professor and president of Washington DC based free Africa foundation George Ayittey reprimands the Ghanaian government for not holding up to its declaration of "zero tolerance for corruption." Ayittey now finds this open statement to be a "mockery" since ex-Special Advisor to Ex-President Rawlings P.V. Obeng (that was kind of a mouthful) walks free even after allegations of scandal in regard to a 4 million dollar bribe from the Norwegian company Scancem. Not too long ago Victor Selormey was prosecuted and jailed for embezzling 1.5 million American dollars. "So why not Obeng?" he asks. Ayittey also mentions he has heard talk- prodding questions as to why this matter has not yet been addressed. Apparently this scandal is public knowledge. According to Ayittey the neglect of the government leads the Ghanaian population to speculate as to why this man is still running around. They suspect perhaps it is because of the church or school he attends. Ayittey suspects that perhaps the reason this issue has been ignored is because members of the government have their own dirty laundry to hide and would prefer to avoid exposure. It is despicable to Ayittey that the Special Advisor to Prez. Rawlings would, in the first place, exploit Ghana to monopolization and secondly, that his own government would allow such an atrocity go unpunished. He is pushing the Ghanaian government to either find out what they are going to do about it or make them do something.
It's honorable that Ayittey is standing up for his people against the Ghanaian government. After everything he has done for it and everything they have declared about "zero tolerance for corruption" they should be receiving scrupulous questioning. It is appalling that after such a declaration they would be so nit witted as to let such an obvious scandal go. This issue doesn't sound foreign to me. It reminds me a lot of some things we hear on the news here in the US about WMDs that were never in Iraq. Why did we go to war there if there was nothing in the first place? We still don't have answers from our government. The people of Ghana deserve answers and deserve justice for being betrayed and exploited...but I feel like their government may find ways to avoid these questions in time or, at least, redirect them.
http://www.ghanaian-chronicle.com/thestory.asp?id=3446
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