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President of the Full Gospel Church International (FGCI), Rt. Rev. Samuel Noi Mensah has poured his frustration on corporate leadership in Ghana for the lackadaisical approach to dealing with corruption which has plagued the country.

According to Rt. Rev Noi Mensah, in Ghana the Ebola” virus that is plaguing our corporate leadership psyche and challenges their sense of responsibility and patriotism as leaders is the wanton incident of corruption, and organized corruption which has grown powerful tentacles in our corporate environments.

In a press release, the Leadership Consultant said, unlike the Ebola menace, the corporate leadership response to the corruption virus has been lukewarm and apathetic, except for the spirited anti-corruption stance and actionable deeds of Mr. Martin Amidu, a former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice and a few other like-minded Ghanaians, notably the OccupyGhana pressure group.

“In Ghana, the “Ebola” virus that is plaguing our corporate leadership psyche and challenges our sense of responsibility and patriotism as leaders in the wanton incident of corruption-organize corruption-which has grown powerful tentacles in our corporate environments….our corporate leadership response to the corruption virus has been lukewarm and apathetic….”, he stated.

He maintained that the historical opposition of the citizens to anything that stands in our way to true freedom and the courageous expression of same seem lost in the face of the threat of corruption.

He added that the overwhelming corrupt practices in almost every stratum of our national life call for bold corporate leadership to stem the untoward tide; stressing it is the moral responsibility of leaders to take responsibility to speak with one voice and stand up against this licentiousness and find antidotes to effectively kill the corruption, lawlessness and indiscipline that has plagued our nation.

He however commended the bravado and nationalism of Mr. Martin Amidu and the OccupyGhana pressure group in their unrelenting fight against the corruption menace in the midst of startling corruption and the disappointing apathy and stone-cold silence of the Ghanaian corporate leadership voice.

To him, by their unwavering stance against corruption, these leaders have shown a remarkable leadership quality worth emulating by Ghanaian youth; adding they have become the conscience of the people and a remnant of the Ghanaian vigilante vanguard that expressed the national will in bold and concrete deeds against discordant ills that bedeviled the nation’s forward march.

“Ghana needs a vanguard of just and righteous leaders in every aspect of her socio-economic, cultural, political and religious life. As leaders, we rise to the occasion and answer the expectations of the people we serve, especially in our present moral and ethical deterioration as a nation…..when a nation has a lack of quality, legitimate and just leaders, national deterioration occurs. It is obvious that our nations are painfully in need of such leaders”, he stated.