Once upon a time when the NPP was in power a certain agyapadea deal became a major political tool at the hands of the then opposition NDC.
The deal was about a certain imaginary and subtle deal to have members of the President’s family take hold of juicy state possessions according to those behind the political mischief. To use the term of NDC activists who cooked it…state capture.
The mischief was so craftily presented to Ghanaians that as a propaganda tool designed to achieve a certain goal it worked out as evidenced in the public reaction and the eventual loss of elections by the NPP.
Enter the NDC and the efforts by ruling party minders to change the narrative in the face of glaring evidence of state capture and family and friends scenarios, is falling flat.
The recent capture by Engineers & Planners (E&P) of a juicy mining concession, Damang, has ignited a heated public debate over whether or not it is the real agyapadea deal.
Of course as a Ghanaian the company can bid for concessions especially those earmarked for Ghanaians.
Considering the underpinnings of the deal…the brevity of the so-called tendering process and the so-called non-fulfillment of conditions which edged the others out of the bidding race it raises a red flag.
How can the President’s brother not be the winner under the circumstances? Even before the process most observers had concluded that it was going to favour the President and it did.
Those who managed the process as it were should have, considering the other concessions given to the President’s brother, engineered and planned it otherwise.
Convincing Ghanaians that the unfolding developments are not state capture by the President’s family members and friends is a hard sell which those engaged to do so had better stopped wasting their time on.
Ghanaians are recalling scenes from yesterday when the political pendulum had not swayed to the side of the NDC. This was a time of massive deception by activists who at the time were busy presenting a warped narrative intended to win votes.
A lot of things have gone wrong, all of them morally absurd for which questions being asked today without answers would be re-presented tomorrow.
At a time when the new leaders of tomorrow should be implementing their projects they would also be faced with the challenges of posing legitimate questions of bad governance they would be inheriting from their predecessors.
A correspondence from the Speaker declining a request to have an ad hoc committee investigate the sale of gold reserves at the Bank Of Ghana has hit the public space.
Addressed to the Okaikoi Central constituency MP Patrick Boamah, Abena Osei Asare, Atiwa East MP and Isaac Boamah Nyarko MP Effia constituency the initiators of the requests it adds to the other compilations of questions which would wait for tomorrow for re-presentation. Governance in the doldrums.
