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General news for Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Source: My GH news
2020-12-02
Manasseh Azure Awuni, investigative journalist
Independent investigative journalist Manasseh Awuni Azure has said that Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has led a team that has taken corruption to absurd levels.
Awuni said the president has not only pushed corruption to absurd levels, but has also undermined anti-corruption agencies like the Auditor General.
For Azure, the president of Ghana was elected to the position not because he promised free SHS, but because Ghanaians thought he could help in the fight against corruption.
However, the same people who controlled the narrative that the president was incorruptible say today that the country should focus on Free SHS and not call out the president for his failure to fight corruption, which was the main reason he was elected to power.
For Manasseh, parents are impoverished and unable to pay their wards ‘fees because corruption has freed them from opportunities that will allow them to pay their wards’ fees.
He said that regardless of the investments made in the education of the students, people will fill in and still have to be on the streets to bother saying “The interest and repayments of the misapplied and stolen billions that they loaned us are suffocating us. And people will go to schools for free and go back to their parents’ individual rooms to make a fuss for obvious reasons.
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Free SHS and corruption
Free SHS was not what brought Akufo-Addo to power. He promised Free SHS in 2008 and lost. He promised Free SHS in 2012 and lost.
In 2016, he won mainly because Ghanaians were outraged by corruption. And what has he done in the fight against corruption that he promised? Not only has it pushed corruption to an absurd level, it has undermined anti-corruption agencies like the Auditor General.
But some people say that it has achieved a free SHS, so we should not talk about corruption. Why not? The rampant corruption of bygone years is what has impoverished so many that they cannot afford a decent living and pay their ward fees.
Interest and repayments on the misapplied and stolen billions they have loaned us are suffocating us. And people will attend schools for free and return to their parents’ individual rooms to work for obvious reasons.
Whether we talk about it or not, corruption has consequences for all of us, including those who have insured their future generations against poverty by stealing and hoarding what belongs to all of us.
It is possible to have implemented SHS for free without corruption.
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