In the news, former NPP MP and anticorruption crusader, PC Appiah Ofori urges a vote of no confidence in the President rather than the focus on Ken Ofori Atta.

It will appear the public has already cast that vote if parliament won’t. The President has been booed and angered to curse and tell people, literally, that he didn’t force them to vote for him.

80 NPP MPs (59% of the Majority Caucus) boldly broke ranks to publicly tell the President to sack the finance minister and deputy Charles Adu-Boahen or they will not support any business he brings to the hung parliament.

Friday, last week, the Auditor-General held a meeting with the Citizens Coalition. This was after the demonstration compelled by his refusal to meet the Coalition that has been demanding he issues disallowances and surcharges. Since assuming office in August 2020, Mr. Johnson Akuamoah Aseidu has issued only one surcharge for an amount of about GHC 1m.

My intention is to reflect useful critical feedback to Mr President on what the people feel about his management of the economy – the country. 

But this is Samson’s Take, so I must find some legal angle to it. The Constitution commands in article 36(2) that the central job of governance is establishing “a sound and healthy economy”, and that’s exactly what you promised during your campaign for this job. 

In my last Take, I expressed joy about a fund mobilization drive by Attorney-General Godfred Yeboah Dame to help the law reform and legal aid commissions in their work. 

On Wednesday, the President launched the two funds for the two institutions with GHC 1m each as seed money. He, CEO of IPMC and an energy company made separate donations amounting to GHC400,000.00 to these funds. 

“If you focus on Martin’s retracted comment and not on the real scandal that the President isn’t addressing, you’re part of why Ghana is sinking!” – Kwaku Antwi-Boasiako posted on Facebook. He is right. You are actually a part of the syndicate enabling the looting you pretend to denounce but that only gets worse as recent survey confirm.

Some dislike the idea of allowing a “criminal”, especially the big thieves involved in corruption offences, to simply pay back and walk free. This dispensation has existed in Ghana since 1993 in a scant section 35 of the Courts Act. It allows for compensation and restitution by the accused person. You plead guilty; you get convicted but not sentenced by the Court.