“This generosity is a perplexing episode of flabbergastation repellent to the public eye.”
No public personage has been so furiously roasted by irate Ghanaians in the manner Sammy Gyamfi has been felled and thorn apart these past few weeks. At least, not since the nefarious days of Woyome.
From Tatale to Zabzugu, Tumu to Tema, has breached our national conscience in the manner of a tsunami that took us unawares.
And yet, this crime, according to the lawyers, is neither a breach of the law nor any ethical code. But how could a gesture so lavishly intended, turn so paradoxically wrong?
While the proposition that the tape was a set-up cannot be dismissed (for a closer examination of the footage reveals a clear intention of sabotage) Sammy Gyamfi brought this on himself and he deserves every castigation he has received.
The young lad had been so unsparring, even flamboyant in his vilification of the previous government that he had almost elevated himself to sainthood as the guardian of the public purse.
Thus, for the “exalted saint” to showcase and dish out foreign currency in such publicly repellent splendour and ostentation (only a few days after becoming the boss of the Goldbod) must be uproarious.
But legal or illegal, a political orchestration or not, this generosity is a perplexing episode of awe—- a commodious flabbergastation—-antagonistic to public decency and sensibility.
And whereas the president wants us to think of his administration as a breath of fresh air, his handling of the matter is worse than the deed itself.
Having launched a code of ethics for his ministers just a week before, the occasion was ripe to signal a new age of decency for his appointees.
Many Ghanaians would have applauded him with a strong public rebuke of his “Golden Boy” even if it was all that was required since the matter itself was more about public propriety rather than criminality. The young man had himself apologised for his indiscretion and lack of judgement.
Yet, the President failed to take the bull by its horn. He lacked the balls to apply sanctions or the slightest rebuke to such an act of embarrassment to his government.
is a re-enactment of politics as the quickest path to riches. The President’s treatment of the offence is as illicit as the offence itself.
The young man, the President and his party have all failed Ghanaians. We are watching.
The reset of Ghana, if indeed anything like that exists, must not only apply to political opponents. Charity must begin at home!
