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Report that a state minister to the presidency was forced to resign or resign of his own free will from the Akufo-Addo administration. It has come to me as big news, also because of the crime of which the former regional minister of the former Upper East was a victim. been accused of being guilty is shockingly inexcusable. We are of course talking about Mr. Rockson Bukari, accused of facilitating the corruption of a judge and an investigative journalist in a case involving the dilapidation of a Chinese-controlled mining company in the Upper East Shaanxi (See "Rockson Bukari resigns the scandal of the presidency following a corruption case," Kasapafmonline.com / Ghanaweb.com, 30/04/19).
I do not take it into account, but I think it's at least the third of this type of resignation over twenty-seven, or twenty-eight years, the government of President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. It's very healthy, since I've never heard of a single resignation from a state minister so senior to the presidency during the four-and-a-half years of previous regime of Mahama. As I remember very well, the usual practice was then to hear or know that such presidential staff members were actually promoted for wrongdoing. I read some press articles on the previous case, which indicated that Mr. Bukari, who was then Upper East Region Minister, had attempted or rather successfully negotiated a scam. of corruption to kill investigative information. story written by Mr. Edward Adeti, a journalist employed by the Starr-FM radio network, who was facing a judge who could receive bribes in the Bolgatanga regional capital, in the far-east of the country, which was found guilty of having been criminally pronouncing in favor of the Shaanxi Mining Company, owned by Chinese.
Precisely what the latter case implied was not very clear to you really at the time of this press preparation; Presumably, the subject of this case was related to Shaanxi's destructive practices for the environment. Whatever the case may be, one should not let things end with the official resignation and the acceptance of the same, respectively, by Mr. Bukari and President Akufo-Addo. This case must be deepened and the judge involved in this case of national destruction duly and promptly sanctioned. It also means that Mr. Bukari must also be punished well beyond his decision to resign quickly from the Akufo-Addo administration, with the salutary possibility that the former minister of state be prosecuted and sentenced to prison.
Coming after the recent case Aisha Huang, or Osafo-Maafo Contretemps, makes such punitive and / or judicial sanctions all the more imperative. This last observation, of course, is not the least of the reasons to suggest that Ms. Huang's release from pre-trial detention and her prompt deportation to China was a reprehensible act. Indeed, there was clearly no wrongdoing, given the fact that the Mahama regime would have provided Ms. Huang with hermetic protection from the state, while this infamous courtesan or demimonde, in turn, would have provided to some key members of the Mahama regime, and possibly even members of the opposition, bad services that are the subject of commercial transactions.
Judicially, it is also necessary to go to the bottom of this case, because the recently resigned minister would also have gone to Tongo Rana, supreme chief of the traditional Talensi region, which Bukari would also have claimed. have pressured the Starr-FM reporter, named Edward Adeti, to kill his investigation against the judge, whose name was unknown to you today, and the Shaanxi Mining Company . Tongo Rana vehemently denied that he had committed such an outrageous and clearly illegal act. Further investigation of this issue may also provide the government and the general public with important, even informative, information on the difficult task currently facing the ongoing war against Galamsey, including how to root out this existential threat effectively. for the quality of life. to the nation (see also "Resign, do not trust – Reporter to Rockson Bukari" DailyMailGh.com / Ghanaweb.com 29/04/19). The Akufo-Addo presidency must also put an end to the double-salary ministerial fraudsters of the previous Mahama regime.
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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Department of English, SUNY-Nbadau
Garden City, New York
April 30, 2019
E-mail: [email protected]
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