[ 2012-07-14 ]

Will Mills Strike?
Soon after the Martin Amidu discourse on the
airwaves last Thursday, some persons were engaged
in arguments as to whether the President would
probe the allegation that Deputy Minister Samuel
Ablakwa Okudzeto did plead on behalf of a judgment
debt petitioner.

While one school of thought maintained that given
the President's disposition he would not do
anything in that regard, another expects that
having spoken against corruption during his
electioneering campaign, this is an excellent
opportunity for him to act and so he would order
one.

We are on the side of the former, believing that
it is not a feature of the President to order
probes into matters impugning on the integrity of
his appointees or his government.

The disclosures by Martin Amidu which resonated
across the country and beyond would have caused
heads to roll had they been in other political
dispositions.

We think that it would be a mark of
irresponsibility for the President not to order a
transparent probe into the issues raised by his
former Attorney General against the Deputy
Information Minister.

Winning the confidence of the citizenry is an
important factor in governance but from all
indications, President Mills is losing out on this
as a result of his apparent lack of will or
interest to deal with appointees who misconduct
themselves in office.

Ghanaians feel insulted by what would definitely
be an indefinite silence on the part of the
president as a junior appointee gets embroiled in
the matter of judgment debt payment.

It is serious enough when a government appointee
is seen to be salivating at the prospect of what
he is going to derive from a judgment debt
collection. No wonder he has the guts to call his
senior colleague and plead with him to pay the
amount.

Mr. Okudzeto-Ablakwa has insulted us for far too
long and the source of his impunity is not
far-fetched— the President has given him the green
light to do as he pleases but the people of Ghana
would take a decision on the status quo when they
go to the polls at the end of the year.

Rather than take cover from the embarrassment he
suffered at the hands of Mr. Martin Amidu, we have
learnt that he intends to host a press
conference.

Being a one-man platform, he would seek to use it
to advance more lies to support the previous ones
and possibly decline to answer questions from the
media.

We have had enough of the propaganda and if
Ablakwa thinks he can use this platform to further
insult us, we would not spare him our opprobrium.

Source - Daily Guide

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