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| Ghana Laughs Last |
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| Posted on: 2007-Jan-12 GNA |
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Ghana went through disturbing moments in her political history recently, when killjoys sought to twist the facts about the purchase of some essential multi-purpose helicopters for the Ghana Armed Forces and indeed the country.
They cast characteristic insinuations and innuendos in their bid to tell the world that the purchase of the choppers was shrouded in mystery and therefore smacked of misdemeanour.
The transaction, we have learnt, was effected at a time when the fleet of the Ghana Air Force had been seriously depleted.
Modern choppers of the mould of the Mi-17v serve many purposes.
With the capability of conveying a platoon of combat-kitted soldiers to any civil strife location at short notice, the aircraft can as well perform a fighting role and serve as an airborne ambulance.
As we compose this editorial, the choppers are serving in strife-stricken La Cote d’Ivoire and attracting convertible currency for the country, apart from the unquantifiable diplomatic plusses they are bringing to us as a country.
So cacophonous were the doctrinaire critics that the military, in a rare development, hosted a press conference to explain the circumstances that informed the transaction.
Not even this could convince them to put a brake to the crusade they had embarked upon to make mountains out of non-existent molehills.
It is disheartening to note that after putting in place a democratic system of governance with its accompanying attributes, some of our compatriots would want to throw spanners into the works.
Seeking to gain cheap political points by such tendentious actions will only serve to slow our pace of development in a country which has suffered years of neglect in terms of physical and intangible development at the hands of military adventurists.
Now that the truth has been let out by the forensic audit report, we have come to learn that out of an inordinate desire to muddy the political waters in the country, there is a group of Ghanaians which would go to any length in its bid to misrepresent facts.
We have a dream that someday, Ghana would be devoid of citizens who would do everything to throw dust into the eyes of their compatriots.
We have a dream that someday we would appreciate the efforts of our compatriots who find themselves in positions of authority.
We have a dream that we shall someday shed the proclivity to pull down our compatriots as part of a grand political agenda on behalf of disgruntled elements enjoying the spoils of their exploits of years gone by.
It is our hope that someday we can organize ourselves in ethically acceptable fashion as we perform our role of the fourth estate of the realm.
We owe posterity the responsibility of preserving Ghana and all its institutions.
The botched attempt at creating disaffection within the ranks of the Armed Forces, using the helicopter issue was for us one of the most absurd attempts ever by elements who see nothing good in the management of the affairs of this country by those not belonging to their stable.
Absolute transparency in conformity with the norms of the aviation industry was what the Defence Ministry, represented by Dr. Kwame Addo-Kufuor, did in executing the deal.
It can only be conjectured what the media and political landscape would have been, had the audit report on the Wellfund and Rosonboroexport deal not conformed with laid-down procurement procedures.
It is unfortunate that this country has been dragged to this plane of outright mendacity by people who are expected to live above board.
It is refreshing though to note that many things have happened to disprove the positions of the disgruntled, even as they go on and on to discredit the incumbent administration and all it stands for.
Thankfully also, the international community has read between the lines and maintained its level of goodwill to us as a people and our government, the political machinations notwithstanding.
It is the credentials of good governance and other tenets of democracy chalked by this government that have earned it the opprobrium of these elements.
The audit report, we must say, has put paid to months of speculations and mendacious stories. In the face of this clearance, Ghana, not only Dr. Kwame Addo-Kufuor, is laughing last, which is the best, as the adage goes.
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