Today, My Take is brief in simply stating the correct position of a gravely misunderstood law causing fear and panic especially among citizens labouring abroad to buy land and own real property in Ghana. It is a matter that strangely gains traction ever so often. Caretakers of land – and land, in law, includes any building on it – these caretakers get wrongly emboldened to make misguided demands of their landlords.
I have taken a break from a PhD in law after two years of demanding studies. People I have a good deal of respect for including a couple of judges have asked me to consider teaching law, which I do occasionally as guest lecturer. But I feel it’s better to do so after a PhD research experience.
A PhD must signify scholarship and wisdom that places a patriotic restraint on the holder to a professional and ethical conduct. It is embarrassing how a growing number of PhDs reduce the esteem one ought to have for those who have endured the discipline to earn it.
Minister Simon Osei-Mensah’s arrogant, ignorant rants and empty threats of legal action against ECG staff in Kumasi and some media houses is shameful.
It may be a difficult subject but it must be broached. A country seeking leadership of integrity, the surest way to a good society, cannot afford to do otherwise.
In the church, business, and every sphere, Ghanaians celebrate leaders with questionable character. We, in large numbers project and literally worship wealth regardless of the source.
One thousand and eighty-one (1,081) New Patriotic Party (NPP) delegates are this morning gathering to elect one of nine aspirants seeking to replace late Deputy Finance Minister Dr. John Kumah as MP for Ejisu.
In 2015 the judiciary in Ghana was brought to its knees to purging it of corrupt elements. The country was hit with a massive scandal as 180 officials were caught on camera taking bribes and extorting money from litigants. 34 were judges and Chief Justice Georgina Wood was swift in sanctioning the culprits according to law, particularly for breaching their code against ex parte communication with litigants.
District Assembly Common Funds are spent in Accra including for double needless corrupt sanitation contracts. District Chief Executives (DCEs) complain but only privately. The DCE job has become compensation for those who lost party primaries etc. and favoured for bootlicking but not necessarily qualified. Presidents hand the job to people they will otherwise not hire to manage their one-acre cassava farms, and sack them at will as just happened last Friday.