By Dr. Kwame Oppong

Nobody doubts how unblemished your character is. Also, nobody doubts your potential to deliver as you promised us. Yet, most of us sense that some of your appointees test positive to blemishing your character.

Nearly every Ghanaian is happy and eagerly awaits the appointment of the Independent Prosecutor. But what is the role of this Prosecutor? To pursue persons and organizations that looted State money or that oversaw such activities. This important national assignment might begin in its conceived form from your regime but will continue into regimes to come. Accordingly, Mr President, why appoint persons with dark background?

Persons with dark background are always scavenging for opportunities to commit crime and will readily do it to perfection when giving the opportunity. With the thousand of clean men around you, Your Excellency, why appoint men that have brighter chances of committing crime?

Starting from This One, we attempt to draw the President’s attention to the kind of obnoxious events that hang over him should he cloud himself with corrupt-bound persons. Then President JM ignored such pieces of advice from us. That prematurely retired him from politics for good!

We begin from one Alfered K. Obeng well known as Approaches Series, who is reportedly appointed as the Managing Director (MD) of BOST (Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation) Company Ltd. He who remembers yesterday is in a good position to talk about today and tomorrow. Yesterday’s events are a good precursor for tomorrow’s event.

We start from his yesterday’s event. A.K.B. Obeng was a LAW STUDENT at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). He engaged himself actively in a series of well-coordinated and high-profile EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES. He was caught red-handed.

Considering the well-coordinated manner and near-absolute perfection in which he (Mr. Obeng) and his colleague(s) executed the MALPRACTICES, KNUST established a committee to break into the routes used for such un-academic act. Your Excellency, it is not the involvement in the malpractice that matters but it is the series of events that happened after the malpractice that informed our decision to alert you.

Mr Obeng and his colleague, herein called the malpracticers, wanted to appoint the members of the committee that would sit on their case. So, they repeatedly objected to the composition of the committee constituted by the University. The University did comply with their demand twice but rejected the third one. Accordingly, the malpracticers refused to attend the sittings of the committee. In response, KNUST could not rusticate but simply sacked him and his colleague.

Now, we highlight some of the events which Your Excellency may use as basis for revoking Mr. Obeng’s appointment. Using his strong and nearly impenetrable syndicate, Mr Obeng took the whole KNUST to a Kumasi-based high court. He successfully manipulated the Judiciary system to quash the University’s informed decision. Mr. President, you need not work with such persons.

The quashing of the University’s decision was published by nearly all newspapers including the Daily Graphic of July 7, 2008. Perhaps, underground checks by the media revealed that court order never was. Thus, Daily Graphic carried another article titled ‘Re: KNUST re-admits two dismissed students’ on 10/07/2008. This article denied that KNUST re-admitted the Malpracticers. That is, Mr. Obeng and his colleague were still considered dismissed from KNUST.

The rejoinder prompted Mr. Obeng to carry the University back to the court. His ill-grounded claim was that a high court earlier quashed the University’s decision and yet the University went on to publish a rejoinder against the quashing. He lost the appeal. That is, the University’s decision to sack him was validated and he remains a sacked student of KNUST until this day.

Mr. Obeng holds himself somehow as an engineer. Some also claims he went overseas where he got a first degree or master’s degree in law.

Mr. President, why ‘gamble’ by work with such persons especially in departments where the Nation drives the much-needed revenue for you to fulfil your campaign promises. This person already has his syndicates; he will simply activate them and use them to run down the Company. Should you attempt to investigate him thereafter, he might likely send the Government to The Hague.

NPP has the brains—the men and the women—to team up with you, Your Excellency. Ghanaians are uninterested in tangible excuses for failures. To be for warned is to be for armed.

We shall return.