Then there was the other who was certain that he had been cheated out of a contract through corruption. He was determined to expose the corrupt process and for that, he too had prepared another substantial envelope for a media man who had promised to help him. I asked him whether he was going to bribe the media man to expose the bribery of the public officer. Oh no, he said, the envelope for the media man was just solidarity. Musical artistes who have approached me tell me that in order to have their music played on radio, they have to hand out, not bribes, but payola. So you see, we are all on what I call a corruption carousel, whirling around with the music. And yet this is not something to trifle with. It is destroying business. It is undermining national governance. It is frustrating individuals. And it is eroding international confidence in our country. We must accept that it is part of the problems afflicting the economy today and while we ponder over policy options, we must cry out for some act of courage to tackle the scourge of corruption, not on the peripheries but at the top. ~ Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, 30 August 2014
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 08:00:31 +0000
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