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The former Member of Parliament for Ekumfi has expressed sadness that Ghanaians have not learnt any lessons from the 1979 coup d� etat by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). According to George Kuntu Blankson, Ghanaians have soon forgotten the tenets of the popular uprising which saw the ousting of military junta lead by General Fred Akufo in the middle of 1979. �..we seem to have forgotten all the reasons for the revolution because we still see the corruption and break down of discipline in every facet of our social fabric. How can our nation develop if we proceed on this same tangent?� He made these comments during a panel discussion with Joel Wang,a Singaporean Reverend Minister in the studios of NEAT 100.9 FM , on the need for the nation to eschew corruptible tendencies through discipline, using Singapore as the yardstick. On the word of Mr. Wang, Singapore made a conscious effort to be truthful to itself because of the fact they had been ostracized from Malaysia and therefore had to imbibe in its citizenry, the need to be incorruptible, in order to drive the nation forward. �There is no indigenous Singaporean because we all came from elsewhere. Majority of us are from Malaysia, others from India, and other Asian countries and had to start the nation Singapore together. We have stayed disciplined till now because there a conscious effort to get the nation where we want it to be,� he said. Mr. Wang, who is also a Pastor of the Reinhard Bonkke Ministries also called on Ghanaians, as part their new year�s resolution, decide not to pay or accept bribes. However, Hon. Kuntu Blankson is of the conviction that the alarming levels of indiscipline in the nation is as a result of the fact that Ghanaians have forgotten the lessons from the 1979 coup d� etat in which the AFRC lead by then Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings conducted what it termed "a housecleaning exercise", with the aim of purge Ghanaian society of all the corruption and social injustices that they perceived to be at the root of their coup d'�tat.