Demanding accountability from public institutions (3)

Indeed, there appears to be a pattern to all this. Whenever there is a public outcry against perceived corruption, the knee jerk response has been the immediate setting up of a committee; and this is often meant as atender pacifier hastily inserted into the mouth of a crying baby. Sing a few lullabies, including the live broadcast of proceedings where witnesses shed a few tears, and your baby the good people of Ghana, will be surely put to sleep. By the time he wakes up from sleep, times have moved on; front page headlines have changed, and a new tournament in Equatorial Guinea has begun and ended, with absolutely no lessons learnt from history.

Considering the perception that international sporting tournaments are often exploited as self-serving vehicles for embezzlement and the looting of state funds, public response to Ghana’s recent failed bid to host AFCON 2017 was rather revealing. Rather than exhibit patriotism, by lamenting Ghana’s failed attempt, the general public