If you have been conversant with the news in the past few days you would have learnt that finally what I have been suspecting as been officially confirmed. Some sacred cows have been named. The Book recently written by one Professor which I have never heard of before but apparently is distinguished enough to have his book launched with the high and mighty attending threw up this assertion.

According to the author, the fear of discontent in the Army and the restive new of the aniget delta and the general security conditions of the Country has led to us not even daring to asking some of our biggest 'thieves' questions. So where this leaves the Government especially in its most vaunted war against corruption remains to be seen.

For me the moral justification for the continued existence of this government has been rudely thrown out except that assertion is the good Professors personal opinion which I think it is. The government came on stage with a much vaunted cry to fight corruption in its every form and guise. It immediately started 'fighting' everybody. People like Dasuki and Saraki are living witnesses to this and a series of weak civil servants have lost their jobs, some their liberties in this war but as we have heard, the real big ones are not going to be touched and this throws up the government as a government of bullies. For how is it easy to fight and destroy the tiny ones and the real big ones you treat with kid gloves?

I remember Jerry Rawlings who took out four ex Heads of State in his own quest. He did not care for the security of the Government because he himself was clean and had the total support of the country and his campaign was not cosmetic or shallow. For him ethnic, political stature or any other factor was not an impediment. You stole you lost your life. Today Ghana is the better for it.

No one is pushing for a death sentence but for the fact that the campaign must be wholesome and comprehensive. If the country wants to scatter let it scatter otherwise we will continue to breed sacred cows who will continue raping the country while jumping into the gilded cage of untouchables.

If the Government has no political will as asserted in this Book to try the high and mighty then it has lost the moral ground to prosecute the war against corruption we should just face the 'change begins is me' campaign my people.

Corruption put us where we are today and I am not talking the little petty thieves that litter the corridors of our ministries or our firms. I am talking about the massive earthshaking corruption that involves our natural resources, our national assets being sold and divided amongst themselves at the highest levels and if this cannot be probed what are we doing stalking a permanent secretary who inflated a contract to supply biros to a secondary school in Mokwa.

I tire.

http://josephedgarng..com.ng/2016/10/the-war-on-corruption-and-its-sacred.html?m=1

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