GOD SAVE HER GHANA---MY TAKE ON THE ANAS VIDEO.

So, I had the chance courtesy my good friend Giovani Elolo Caleb of YFM & eTV to watch the premiere of Anas Aremeyaw documentary on corruption in Ghana’s judiciary which we had all been anxiously waiting for. The subject of corruption in the judiciary has always been held as a perception and anytime anyone alleged there was corruption, then he or she was hounded to provide evidence as the Latin maxim 'semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit' implies' he who asserts must prove'.

It was neck-wrecking, revealing and shocking for me see how this cancer of corruption has eaten deep into the judiciary to the extent that as some judges prefer mere Burkina Faso goats to justice delivery. It is absolutely pathetic how we all appear so clean and innocent in society but inwardly very dirty and lacking any conscience for the public good.

The most pathetic part for me in the exposé was the scene where a female judge whose name I readily can’t recall now, initially refused to be bribed but later compromised her situation. And this is what she said--'' I am a Christian and one day, one day God will judge me but you go and see Eric (court clerk) and I will see what I can do''. God is indeed suffering as we continue to mention his name in vain whilst we continue to do the very wrong things.

Then came Justice Ajet Nassam, a High Court Judge who I call the ‘last killer’. He didn't just receive bribe to administer justice in favour of someone but had a ‘good time’ with the persons supposed niece, just to let go of criminals and thanks to my legal friend Kow Essuman who called me back to watch the last minute scene as I was on my way out of the packed auditorium because the three hour document became boring to me at some point. Indeed, Judge Ajet Nassam did kill the last show.

Honestly, we have a long way to go as a country and the best place to stop this menace and cancer is from our very homes where we first train our children before they even start formal education. As the good books says in Proverbs 22:6 that '' train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it ''.
We must all be up and doing and fight corruption right from our homes to our workplaces. To Anas and his team I say ayekoo, great job done but as to whether those implicated in the video will go through the due process of the law and handed the appropriate punishments is a subject for another discussion.

I leave you with something I recently heard Sekou Nkrumah's dad said in a History Video titled “ Building the Akosombo Dam & the Cold War " and this is what Osaygefo Dr. Nkrumah had to say “ Corruption is not a problem peculiar to any country. I personally feel the best way you can stop corruption in any country, is to build up a strong public opinion against it ".

Long live Our Motherland and May God Save Her Ghana.