Ghana’s Auditor-General, Mr Daniel Yao Domelevo, has condemned the politics of comparative mediocrity that is practised in the country.
The anti-graft A-G told Class FM Wednesday, 9 October 2019 that: “Our system [of politics] has assumed partisan positions to the neglect of the national interest”.
“It’s very worrying where we can all see the truth and because of partisan positions, we neglect it”, Mr Domelevo said.
He illustrated his concern thus: “The same thing that ‘A’ objected to when he was in opposition, he comes into government and he does the same thing. And the thing that ‘B’ was defending when he was in government, he goes into opposition and immediately it doesn’t work”.
“My expectation and prayer”, he said, “Is that we reach a position where irrespective of these partisan political positions, we can identify a thief and call him a thief; corruption and call it corruption; mismanagement and call it mismanagement; instead of: ‘Oh, but even if you talk about me being corrupt, I’m better-corrupt than you; you’re more corrupt; you were stealing in billions, I’m in millions, so, I’m a better thief”.
“That is the type of politics that we are doing, instead of us saying that this is our government but the guy has misbehaved, he must be taken on. This is what I’m expecting for this country”, he said.
Source: Class News
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GH has lost the fight against corruption long time ago. Mahama failed to deal with corruption & Nana Addo too is failing and hiding behind failed Special Prosecutor. Very sad for the country.
Well-spoken A-G, however, ordinary Ghanaian can do little about this predicament. What are the measures put in place as a nation to curtail this canker? Partisan politics is killing Ghana and people are gradually losing confidence in the state authorities whose duties are to control the helms of affairs. We call ourselves a democratic county but little do we practice. Let the laws on the land take its course.
You too you dey talk too much ahba.