When a report is titled ‘How Dirty Money Finds a Home in Dubai Real Estate’ is unleashed onto the cyber space, it wets your appetite to read. 

When you also get to know that the report is a product of meticulous investigations by the reputable Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), the motivation to read becomes compelling. 

But when you learn that the report is about Oman Ghana, then it becomes depressing reading the horrifying, shameful and brazen theft perpetrated by those who claim to be apostles of probity, accountability and integrity.

The OCCRP informed its global audience that a shameless caste of former Mahama appointees who had the benefit of being entrusted with state resources, looked at impoverished people in the eyes, and stashed millions of dollars into corrupt activities in Dubai. The report disclosed that Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, who held juicy Ministerial positions under the misrule of Mr. Mahama acquired 20 apartments across six luxurious areas in Dubai. It also fingered Moses Asaga, who headed the National Petroleum Authority during the disastrous Mahama era, as owning investments in Dubai. 

These are people, who prior to coming to occupy political offices could not boast of any ‘Ata Kwame’ room anywhere in this country. Again, these are people who see poverty around them every day, and yet opt to siphon meagre tax resources to fund greedy investments in foreign lands, ostensibly to create sustainable routes out of poverty for themselves and their dependents. Shame on them!

Some things, like fighting corruption and graft, prove to be essential matters and are best understood by thinking about actions taken to control them. Not to the NDC faithful who are usually accustomed to speaking from both sides of the mouth. 

The NDC leaders and foot soldiers have done a spectacularly bad job of responding to the biggest heist ever foisted on the people of Ghana. They would have been better off remaining silent instead of resorting to the ridiculous and dumb oversimplifications. 

People who only recently called for the ‘head and hands’ of Cecilia Dapaa have the courage, effrontery and even the confidence to defend the troubling Dubai scandal, arguing rather annoyingly that the now-disgraced appointees of Mr. Mahama have been working for several years, and could afford those sleazy trophies in Dubai of all places. 

The same inconsistent and corrupt Congress question the properties of accomplished business people and professionals who made their fortunes outside politics. One is restrained to use harsh words, but this is when one is compelled to note that these brave and dumb looters have not only betrayed Jerry Rawlings; they have also brought disgrace of epic proportions to Ghana on the international stage. But the irritating part of the unfolding saga is that, until very recently, these crooks were actually discussing and calling people out on corruption. If you cannot ask the question, who were they deceiving? you can ask the one that goes like this: what is Mr. Mahama and his special caste of looters seeking power to do?

The NDC’s alternating badge of integrity is best discussed at a 24-hour economy conference at Number 20 DubaiVille. So much for Social Democracy!

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