On Sole Source Contracts: Who does not dislike a hypocrite and dishonest public servant?

In 2024, the NDC operatives constantly shrilled, nagged, and grouched loudly and told Ghanaians that President Akufo-Addo and his appointees were fiendishly stealing their money through the ludicrous sole source contracts, and that if voted into power, the NDC administration was going to put an end to such disgusting practice.

It is, therefore, hypocritical on the part of the incumbent NDC administration to resort to countless sole source contracts under their much-publicised ‘Big Push’ projects.

The NDC administration, ironically, has given about 81 out of 107 road projects to contractors on sole sourcing since assuming office.

We can, therefore, draw an inference that the incumbent NDC administration is deceitfully using sole sourcing as a ploy to create loot and share.

My dear reader, please tell me, if such revoltingly ugly behaviour does not amount to hypocrisy, what it is then?

Interestingly, the word hypocrite is originated from the Greek word hypokrites, which translates as “stage actor, pretender, dissembler.”

In practice, we can view a hypocrite as a person who relentlessly preaches virtue and practises vice.

In fact, hypocrites more often than not, talk plenty, but fail to follow their own rules — like a clamorous vegetarian who secretly eats pork.

Unfortunately, the teeming supporters of the National Democratic Congress(NDC) would never agree with some of us for persistently criticising their beloved party through the lenses of the past events.

But, I am afraid, we cannot make sense of the present happenings if we refused to take stock of the past.

“If you would look deeper, history is broad yet deep that binds the core existence of the world. Hence, history keeps the records of events that happened.”

“History is a lesson in the past but can also be the greatest regret of the future. Yet the reason why there is history is because of the events that were created by man (Hughes 2010).”

The truth is, some of us cannot help but to continuously shriek, grouch, censure and highlight the revoltingly ugly and risible tendencies of the devotees of the June 4 1979 and 31st December 1981 coup d’états.

I hate to admit, the fact however remains that there is nothing wrong for a group of people to come together and identify themselves as the coup enthusiasts, or the ideologues of transparency, probity and accountability.

Nevertheless, it is hypocritical and somewhat deceitful if a group of people who claim to be the exponents of such ethos turn around and commit the same crimes they inexorably preach against.

What incensed some of us so much is that despite their much touted mantra of transparency, probity and accountability, we have been witnessing so much scheming guiles, sleazes and corruption in the successive NDC administrations. Who are they trying to deceive?

Astonishingly, the successive NDC administrations officials have been committing the same crimes (bribery and corruption) their party founders accused and killed many innocent people.

As I stated elsewhere, there is absolutely nothing wrong for any individual to tag himself/herself as a proponent of transparency, probity and accountability. But, it is somewhat hypocritical and somewhat deceitful when a group of people who claim to be the exponents of such ethos would then turn around and dip their hands into the national purse as if there is no tomorrow.

After all, aren’t the NDC apparatchiks claiming to be the exponents of transparency, probity and accountability?

So why are they refusing to practice what they have been relentlessly preaching to us all these years?

Are they wolves in sheep’s clothing?

Indeed, it is an illustrative case of false prophets, who are relentlessly nagging their followers that ‘it is written in the Holy Book that thou shall not steal’, while they turn around and dip their hands into the church offering bowl as if the judgement day will never come.

Clearly, their much trumpeting ethos of probity, transparency and accountability is a charade. It is rather an illustrative case of preaching virtue and practising vice. A clear example of hypocrisy.

Given the circumstances, some of us will continue to squall, speak and write about the apparent double standards by the NDC apparatchiks, which the party faithful perceive as a benign or an inconsequential issue.

Some of us, in fact, won’t abandon our duty as bona fide Ghanaians, far from it. We will rather stick to our guns, be true to the faith, and, keep upholding and defending the good name of our beloved Ghana.

May God bless our homeland Ghana!

K. Badu, UK.

k.badu2011@gmail.com