Perception of Corruption in Ghana

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• Ghanaman 10 years ago

  Don't try to spin Mahama and his govt,s corruption

  Don't try to spin Mahama and his govt,s corruption

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• Charles Kumi 10 years ago

  You have said it very well. The problem is that we are good at talking about our problems all the time. Turn on your radio you will hear talk about corruption all day. We need solutions and education on how to solve this pro ...
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  You have said it very well. The problem is that we are good at talking about our problems all the time. Turn on your radio you will hear talk about corruption all day. We need solutions and education on how to solve this problem. We will hold you to your word, come out with solution, solutions, solutions so that we can stop corruption under NDC all governments who will come after NDC is gone. Please be a part of the solution not the talk shop, we have enough of that.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  Dr. Gabriel A. Ayisi,
  You are conflating a lot of messes and attempting to make a case that is not as balanced as the analysis requires.
  
  READ: "...Why do we continue to produce more and more graduates who come out to find ...
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  Dr. Gabriel A. Ayisi,
  You are conflating a lot of messes and attempting to make a case that is not as balanced as the analysis requires.
  
  READ: "...Why do we continue to produce more and more graduates who come out to find no employment?..."
  
  WE SAY: We understand that "employment", though important, is not the sole reason nations educate their young who go on to "graduate".
  
  But....
  
  Let's agree that all are thieves!
  
  You will agree that some are bigger thieves.
  
  And, let's agree that some of these thieves, including the DCEs who produced the "fanfares", used some of the funds to actually buy public goods for Ghana.
  
  Based on the record, you should agree that the Nkrumah record provided more benefit that has allowed all subsequent governments to coast on the Nkrumah successes.
  
  Dum-Sor is just the beginning of the reckoning for Ghana!
  
  Finally, Kwame Nkrumah did not steal from Ghana. If he had stolen from Ghana, you would not have needed the internet, mobile phones, or OccupyGhana, to know! This last one, we submit, is more than "perception".

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  All that out of the way, we can now say...
  
  READ: "...We need to be truly patriotic, eschew selfishness, personal aggrandizement, and focus on a holistic national development by matching our natural growth with our national ...
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  All that out of the way, we can now say...
  
  READ: "...We need to be truly patriotic, eschew selfishness, personal aggrandizement, and focus on a holistic national development by matching our natural growth with our national development agenda..."
  
  WE SAY: We agree!
  
  That, after all, is the Kwame Nkrumah way.
  
  Check the record!

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• Kwadwo 10 years ago

  History teaches us that Corruption was rampant under the CPP. Your Messiah even admitted it and talked about it. Bribery to ministers and party functionaries to win contracts was the order of the day.

  History teaches us that Corruption was rampant under the CPP. Your Messiah even admitted it and talked about it. Bribery to ministers and party functionaries to win contracts was the order of the day.

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  Kwadwo,
  Maybe you need to read my comment at the top again.
  
  And if by "Messiah" you mean someone who lays the path in the form of Vision, funded National Development Plans, and a Unitary Ghana best positioned to stand the ...
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  Kwadwo,
  Maybe you need to read my comment at the top again.
  
  And if by "Messiah" you mean someone who lays the path in the form of Vision, funded National Development Plans, and a Unitary Ghana best positioned to stand the test of times even under assault by confederates with parochial agendas, a government that actually achieves something that all subsequent governments have coasted on, then yes, Nkrumah has been Ghana's "Messiah, and a beneficial "Messiah", if you care.

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• Goldcoaster 10 years ago

  Yes,Nkrumah stole Ghana'a money and bought built mansions in Nkroful, London, Washington! We who didn't know him even came to see his private jets, Rolls Royce cars, Bentleys etc.
  
  Charley, why don't some of you give the gu ...
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  Yes,Nkrumah stole Ghana'a money and bought built mansions in Nkroful, London, Washington! We who didn't know him even came to see his private jets, Rolls Royce cars, Bentleys etc.
  
  Charley, why don't some of you give the guy some break, sometimes? He wasn't God, so he make mistakes, like overstepping his budget every time, and also believing Africans after him would have the ability to reason like him.
  
  Nkrumah was firm in his convinction that assisting other countries in savage Africa would help the African cause. Alas, his genius just overestimated blackman's intelligence and underestimated blackman's innate evil that would oust him for "miettes" from London and Washington for bomb throwers and coup plotters.
  
  GIVE NKRUMAH A DAMN BREAK!!!

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• Prof Lungu 10 years ago

  Righteous outrage, and we understand!

  Righteous outrage, and we understand!

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• kakabo 10 years ago

  Dr Ayisi I disagree with some of the assertions you have made. We do not produce graduates because there is available jobs for them. We produce graduates so that they can use the acquired knowledge to create something meaning ...
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  Dr Ayisi I disagree with some of the assertions you have made. We do not produce graduates because there is available jobs for them. We produce graduates so that they can use the acquired knowledge to create something meaningful for the country either in business, politics, science or other spheres of life.
  My second disagreement with you is that applying a bandage on a problem is the first step towards solving the problem. There is no doctor on this earth who will take a patient straight to the surgical ward for surgery when all the vital indicators of the patient are wrong. Any Doctor who does that will surely make sure that the patient does not leave the operating theatre alive. We always manage a patient and stabilize him before we can think of a lasting solution for his illness. The reason why we are all against the way the current Dumsor is being managed is that the government keeps telling us that they want to resolve the matter when we need an immediate management plan to keep the economy limping on before we can find the final cure. This is the problem of the current government. The economy is collapsing with industries closing down and throwing workers unto the streets and all what you can say is that you want to solve the issue . This is absolute madness and has no foundation in any aspect of our human life. We manage a situation before we find a solution to cure it finally.

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• Dr. Ayisi 10 years ago

  What I mean by meaningless free education is that we should grow the economy alonside producing the graduates, so that the knowledge they acquire couls be put to good use in helping the country develop. Ignoring kob creation ...
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  What I mean by meaningless free education is that we should grow the economy alonside producing the graduates, so that the knowledge they acquire couls be put to good use in helping the country develop. Ignoring kob creation in the economy is disastrous.
  Ghana has only one remedy - applying band aid to the wounds for 58 years. A doctor who appllie bandage and does no further diagnosis to treat the disease is a bad one, and that is why Ghana still faces dumsor, that is why there is over 20% unemployment in the country, that is why our railroads are broken, that is why there is massive traffic jams in our major cities 24/7. The current government has the responsibility to bring immediate relief to the dumsor problem while taking steps to find permanent solution to it. However, my problem is why for 58 good years of independence all our previous governments have failed to solve most of our mounting economic and social problems effectively and permanently? That is the band aid solutions I am referring to. Ghanaians want to live like the Americans or the Europeans, but they do not want to work for it, which I refer to as "shopping mall development" where we building ultra-mordern shopping malls whereas there are no jobs for the masses to earn the necessary income to become effective consumers. Not only that 99.9% of all the items sold in these malls are imported.

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• Helen Teague 10 years ago

  I could not agree more.
  
  Unfortunately one of the best possibilities for wealth creation and so jobs creation is small business - and the legal, proffessional and financial insitutions and framworks that safeguard the cont ...
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  I could not agree more.
  
  Unfortunately one of the best possibilities for wealth creation and so jobs creation is small business - and the legal, proffessional and financial insitutions and framworks that safeguard the context in which business is conducted seem to not be able to carry out their roles effectively - if we told you our story your blood would go cold.

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