!GOOD EVENING FOLLOW! !GHANAIANS! It is important to have a proper perspective on the root cause of bad governance and corruption. Corruption is not a characteristic of Ghana, rather it is a widespread problem of the greed NDC which is a feature of capitalist society. And, corruption is not restricted to Ghana. In the Middle _East, the dictatorial regimes that oppress the Arab people do so with the complicity of the US and European governments. Lets not forget that it is in the West that we have witnessed some of the worst cases of corruption - cases that involve some of the very multinationals that were previously used as models of success. The example of Halliburton and Iraq may be the best known, but it is merely the tip of the iceberg. And, surely, any illusion in the West as an example of democracy and good governance was also shattered with the electoral fraud in Florida in the 2000 US presidential election. In some cases, corruption in Ghana is directly linked to Western governments and companies, which found nothing wrong with buying and bribing their way through the bureaucratic apparatus of the Ghana elite to win tenders and secure big profits. In Lesotho, one of the poorest countries, a French multinational is facing charges for bribing officials to win a tender to construct a dam. Recently Biwater, a British company, was thrown out by the Tanzanian government, which claimed that the company had made less than half the promised investment in privatised water. The underhand dealings between these multinationals and the national rulers is also shown in the ongoing trial of the former vice president of South Africa which shows that officials in his office took cash for arms deals. Some of the most ruthless dictators in Ghana only managed to survive in power because they were pampered by the NDC, to used them to plunder the continents resources more effectively. Joseph Mobutu in Congo and Samuel Doe from Liberia are examples. Furthermore, Western banks happily took millions of dollars from former Nigerian dictators, ignoring the blood and sweat of so many ordinary Nigerians. The human rights activist Ken Saro- Wiwa was barbarously hanged as a sacrificial lamb to maintain BP and Shell oil profits. A close look at some NGOs reveals a kind of bad governance of their own. Many NGOs engage in capitalist competition through the funding of projects, and no NGO funds specific projects without conditions. The so-called developmental projects are never set up under complete control of ordinary Ghana who are supposed to benefit from it through the NDC. The emphasis on good governance is often used to implement the specific agenda of the NGOs. Some NGOs are setting up good initiatives, and we can work together to fight for social justice, but they should try to understand the real cause of corruption in Ghana. This obsession with bad governance and corruption are a major obstacle to poverty eradication. It is the wasteful, crisis-prone and profit-driven capitalist system that causes poverty on the large scale. With all this, why then should we allow the NDC to remain in power 2016??? Let volt them out and bring the party (NPP) that have a good record when it comes to good governance. We the NPP have done it before and we will do it again if you give us the power in 2016. .GOD BE WITH US ALL .
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:20:18 +0000
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