There seem to be a common lingo among the lips of the politicians, their wives and people that speak in defense of paying monies to these non-office holders.
That lingo is, “Parliament is only now making it formal”, or “It is only now being regularized”, or “It has been in existence”.
They keep uttering these words like for some reason, it is an acceptable explanation or excuse.
The First Lady’s sham of a do-gooder press release to reject and pay back all the monies she has taken in the name of First Lady, used the phrase too.
Make no mistake, the act or practice or whatever they want to call it, is criminal, at least by my lay-man understanding of the law on these things.
It is my understand, the executive, or in this case, the President, did not, does not, and never will have the right to undertake any such action.
The mother of all Ghanaian laws of the land, the 1992 constitution, by my understanding, does not make any provisions for any or such payments.
Since we all know that, the legislature, parliament, is now in the process of passing a bill in that regard, we can safely assume, it is not yet backed by an act of parliament.
So it begs the question, on what grounds at all, were all these “first and second ladies” being paid?
Just the authority of the office of the president?
The Ntiamoah Emoluments Committee Recommendations?
Fact, none of these two, are legal grounds to have paid all those monies to these “Her Excellencies”.
Again, by my understanding, that males it theft.
Doing anything contrary to or in between the lines of the law and provisions present or absent, is shady at least and criminal at best.
In a country where millions of people are regard low income and middle income, it is outrageous and borderline psychopathic to siphon all these money for that purpose.
In a country where unemployment is depressing in numbers, metaphorically and literally, it takes a different kind of monster to ask that loans be taken on the country’s tab so top earners can purchase vehicles.
In a country where our debt toll is thrice our population, these people seem awfully comfortable just wasting money.
The little we have or the plenty we do not know we have.
I am not sure which exactly at this particular moment.
Sadly, these are the kind of people we are saddled with.
I weep for you, me, and anyone not lucky enough to be born rich or hold a public office in Ghana, where money seem to grow on trees.
I fear Ghana might be well beyond #Fixing.
