His vitriolic damnation of the CHRAJ, which was then headed by Justice Emile Short, shocked Ghanaians. What happened? The CHRAJ found them culpable only to anger Rawlings. Interestingly, some of Rawlings’ own henchmen were hauled before this CHRAJ (the late P.V. Turning attention to institutional frameworks for “uprooting corruption”, Rawlings established the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). Can you recall the fate of Major Adutu, Chair of the then Citizens Vetting Committee or others in the Confiscated Houses Commission or One Man One House Committee? Many suffered, even as Rawlings’ own “men” exploited the situation to advantage. On his second coming, Rawlings breathed fire anstod brimstone with his insistence on ridding Ghana of corruption. The Limann administration took little notice of that draconian measure and went its own, which would return Rawlings to the scene. With what consequence to deter corruption? Nothing. The “house-cleaning exercise” had a heavy toll on just anybody fingered as promoting “Kalabule.” The “unprecedented revolutionary action” swept a lot off their feet. Many others associated with the military regimes headed by Acheampong and Akuffo suffered same. Three former military heads of state (Afrifa, Acheampong, and Akuffo) paid the ultimate price at the firing squad. When Rawlings stepped in, his kind of inquiry went beyond rhetoric to physical action to snuff out lives. The National Liberation Council did so to expose the rot under Nkrumah Busia sought to find out what happened under the NLC only for Acheampong to take on his own administration for inquiry. It has been ingrained since time immemorial, which explains why at the demise of one government, the in-coming one sets up a commission of inquiry to determine the extent of rot and expose culprits for punishment. Corruption in Ghana didn’t begin yesterday. As I said earlier on, Ghana’s systemic problems make it difficult for the kind of cherry-picking going on under Akufo-Addo or Rawlings to clean the stables. We’ve heard more than Amidu is telling us today. In effect, making him the Special Prosecutor would eradicate corruption from Ghana!!įolks, let’s not be hoodwinked by such high-sounding proclamations. His own self-assertiveness and boastful comments make me cringe: “I am the best person to be appointed as the Special Prosecutor” “I will prosecute and not persecute” I will do this and I will do that… all over the place… all ending in his claim that he would use his office to retrieve all stolen money for Ghana’s good. And I still stand by my characterization of him as such. Folks, in an earlier post commenting on proceedings during the vetting of martin Amidu for appointment as the Special prosecutor, I said brazenly that Amidu was casting himself too large.
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