Criminalising Loose-talk: Bribery vs Perjury

 

Sections of the Ghanaian media and CSOs show their hypocritical bias again, as they demand the Attorney General prosecutes Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia instead of the Bribe-Giving Businessman who bribed the NPP MPs to rescind their decision to have the Finance Minister sacked.

The Majority Leader and some NPP MPs admitted to being bribed yet the Ghanaian Media and CSOs have not been interested in demanding the identity of the CRIMINAL BRIBE-GIVING BUSINESSMAN let alone demand his prosecution…

Bribery is a Crime, both the GIVER and TAKER of a bribe commit an offence punishable under the laws of Ghana.

Weeks on, neither the overpaid Attorney-General nor the unpaid Special Prosecutor have investigated the matter…

Some media, journalists and some CSOs know the identity of the CRIMINAL BRIBE-GIVING BUSINESSMAN, yet for reasons best known to them, are not interested in making the identity of the CRIMINAL BRIBE-GIVING BUSINESSMAN public nor demanding an investigation and prosecution…

The Majority Leader and the NPP MPs who admitted to being aware of the criminal Bribe-Giving Businessman’s offence and that the money was collected and later returned; have been left off the hook by the Media, journalists and CSOs for reasons best known to them…

Same media, journalists and CSOs who are consciously avoiding the NPP MPs Bribery Scandal are suddenly getting proactive…

These hypocritical and dishonest media, journalists and CSOs are very interested in comments made during the NDC General Secretary’s campaign to become Chairman.

The unsubstantiated claims that the NDC did not have their collated election 2020 results.

The statement has been refuted by other NDC National Executives who had knowledge of the matter; is being hyped as fact by some media, journalists and CSOs with some Politically-motivated lawyers actually calling for the Attorney-General to bring criminal charges of perjury against the newly elected National Chairman of the NDC…

Was it loose-talk in the heat of a crunch internal election?

During political election campaigns, over 90% of allegations made against opponents are usually false, half-truths or just calculated propaganda…

Most of the things President Akufo-Addo, Bawumia and the NPP said against President John Mahama and the NDC government during previous election campaign have been proven to be false, confirming the above fact that unsubstantiated political statements made during campaigns cannot or must not be elevated to fact warranting prosecution.

The NPP MPs Bribery Scandal admission was made by the Majority Leader and the Bribe-Taking NPP MPs not under duress nor within a political campaign situation…

YET SOME GHANAIAN LAWYERS, MEDIA, JOURNALISTS AND CSOs are keen to follow the unsubstantiated claims which they insist constitutes PERJURY; rather than the confession of Bribery by the Majority Leader and the Bribe-Taking-Bribe-Rejecting NPP MPs.

The Media, journalists and the CSOs are not demanding the Majority Leader makes public the result of the investigation he promised to undertake regarding the Bribery of his Majority Caucus by an unnamed Ghanaian businessman.

The Media, journalists and the CSOs are not demanding the Attorney-General or the Special Prosecutor to investigate the NPP MPs Bribery Scandal.

The Media, journalists and the CSOs are not demanding that Parliament sets up a committee to publicly investigate the NPP MPs Bribery Scandal.

Was it also loose-talk?

A crime is a crime.

PERJURY is a CRIME…

BRIBERY is a CRIME…

The selectivity, hypocrisy and dishonesty of sections of the Media, journalists, CSOs and some lawyers who without any investigation are demanding an apology and prosecution in one instance, A PERJURY ALLEGATION.

Whereas, the same Media, journalists, CSOs and lawyers are unwilling to even discuss let alone demand for an independent investigation into THE BRIBERY ADMISSION.

What will be the consequence of the Bribery and Perjury, if substantiated?

The same Media, journalists, CSOs and lawyers are unwilling to even discuss let alone demand for an independent investigation into the Cathedral Project and illegal upfront payments made to David Adjaye let alone demand the retrieval of the money by the State or a Surcharge of the President and Finance Minister to recover the funds to the public purse…

The same Media, journalists, CSOs and lawyers are unwilling to demand the Disallowance of the GHc80million allocated for the Cathedral Project in the 2023 budget…

The same Media, journalists, CSOs and lawyers are unwilling to even discuss let alone demand for an independent investigation into the demolition of private and public buildings and possible judgment debt and willful causation of financial loss to the State occasioned by the Cathedral Project.

On Wednesday, 21st December, 2022 there will be a picket of the Cathedral and Parliament;

Ghanaians including the CSOs, Media, journalists and Lawyers will have an opportunity to protest against the wasting of GHc80million of scarce state funds on Fanciful Projects like the Akufo Addo Cathedral…

Ghanaians who are already suffering excruciating hardships will have the opportunity to stop the imposition of an extra 2.5% of VAT captured in the 2023 Budget by a vote in Parliament…

The poor Ghanaian who was supposedly being excluded from the obnoxious E-Levy payment by setting a threshold of GHc100, can prevent the removal of the E-LEVY threshold as proposed in the 2023 budget by petitioning Parliament as part of the 21st December, 2022 picketing…

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta who is imposing these extra nuisance taxes on Ghanaians, owns a Tax Avoidance Company in the Cayman Islands where people who don’t want to pay taxes hide their money…

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta manages the personal finances of President Akufo-Addo and his private company Databank and Black Star Advisors belonging to Charles Adu Boahen made a percentage of the money borrowed in the name of Ghana and which will be paid by Ghanaians…

Incidentally, Ghana is in a huge debt hole, bigger and deeper than Akufo-Addo’s Cathedral.

Ghana is highly debt distressed with an unsustainable debt situation which has necessitated debt restructuring in order to get an IMF BAILOUT…

Ghanaians are suffering silly haircuts because of the reckless borrowing and crass incompetence of Ken Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister, Rev. Dr. Ogbami-Tetteh as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Dr. Addison as Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Bawumia as head of the Economic Management Team and Akufo-Addo as President.

Yet the same Media, journalists and CSOs who are chasing campaign loose-talk are not interested in the dire reality of today’s Ghana born out of Bribery, Corruption and Plundering of the Public Purse…

Ghanaians are resolved to be Citizens and not Spectators;

The Constitution allows the removal of not only the Finance Minister and Governor of the Bank of Ghana but also the the removal of the President and his Vice President…

🎼 AriseGhana Youth for your country.

Let’s exploit our fundamental Constitutional Rights to Assembly and Demonstration including Picketing to register our disapproval of the current crisis, collapse of the economy and the Cedi becoming the world’s worst currency.

THE HYPOCRISY MUST END.

Let’s see if the CSOs live up to what they say they are and the Media tell the Ghanaian story without bias.

God Save Our Homeland Ghana and help us survive the WASTED YEARS OF THE AKUFO-ADDO-BAWUMIA Government and their DumbDogs who can’t speak truth to power because they are compromised or complicit or corrupt.

#SpeakOut
#SeeSomething
#SaySomething
#SaveGhanaNow

By Prince-Derek Adjei