Respected physician and political activist Arthur Kobina Kennedy has suggested that the prevailing state of impunity on the part of the political class could lead to a coup d’état; an overthrow of our much-vaunted democracy.
He explained that corrupt and state capture practices such as the payment of fraudulent judgment debts, the sale of state assets, the award of contracts to cronies that go unpunished can spell doom for the country.
“I worry that this culture of impunity that is going on can one day lead us to where we don’t want to go. Mr Rawlings may be dead but his spirit is still among us. And as the anger on the streets mount, we have to be very very careful.
Like I said the other time I was here when you see somebody’s beard on fire, you should fetch water and put it beside your beard because your beard could also catch on fire. So I say that judgment debt, the selling of these public buildings, lands, the award of contracts…,” he asserted on Multimedia’s current affairs show Newsfile yesterday, Saturday July 20, 2024.
He lamented that there exist many people in Government whose only aim is to find ways to steal from the public so as to enrich themselves, explaining that the incompetence of government is being deliberately done so as to milk the state.
“The problem we have in our country is that there are a lot of people in our public space, in governments – this government is the worse but it’s happened in governments before – whose sole purpose, regardless of the policy initiative, is to figure out how to milk the public space and transfer public resources into private hands for it to become private wealth.
That is why there is so much incompetence. It is a profitable incompetence because the more incompetent state services are, the more they force the people and they manage to get rent-seeking. That is what we are witnessing on the grand scale,” he added.
He advocated that there must exist strong protection for state assets and that Ghanaians must use their voices and votes to protect public property.
He was full of praise for North Tongu Member of Parliament(MP) Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa for his public-spiritedness, especially in the protection of public assets.
Source: MyNewsGH
