The host of Good Evening Ghana, Paul Adom-Otchere, has said that the Bank of Ghana deliberately collapsed some indigenous Ghanaian owned banks.
According to him, the act was purely executed out of mere envy and hatred by government officials.
“It is motivated by jealousy. It is motivated by hatred. It is not motivated by law. No. It is motivated by a personal desire to see another Ghanaian who is succeeding fail and we have to change that in this country,” he passionately stated on his live TV show, Good Evening Ghana.
Mr. Adom-Othcere’s comment follows what he describes as a deliberate action targeting businesses belonging to competitors of the ruling class.
Justifying his proposition, with reference to similar actions involving the confiscation and subsequent collapse of Tata Brewery owned by Mr. Joshua Kwame Siaw, an industrialist and a philanthropist, under the leadership of then Head of State, Flt Lt Jerry Rawling during the revolution days, Mr Adom-Otchere, who is also a lawyer said: “Yes, we should not punish them because they are indigenous companies, grown to a certain level, so if the company does something wrong we should not punish them but does it mean we should not punish anybody? No! We certainly should not punish the company/companies that employ thousands”.
His rant is in reaction to similar assertions by Archbishop Duncan Williams, General Overseer of the Action Faith Chapel International, last year who contended that successive Ghanaian government have gone after local businesses in an attempt to bring them down in favour of foreign interests.
“We have to change that in the country. The new generation thirty (30) years and above listening to me. You must have a different mindset that this kind of evil will not be part of your story when you become a leader four, five years from now. this kind of story where Ghanaians go against themselves because of personal hatred for a man or a woman, they have to pull down his company and by the time they look around there is no single Ghanaian company,” he emphasized.
Mr Adom-Otchere in his commentary argued businesses were targeted because governments involved feared the owners are too strong to take them out of power.
“That was the reason as we have read in the books that the military junta at the time was worried that the confiscated businesses which were later left to collapse will become too strong to take the regime out… We are still doing it and that’s why the Archbishop is complaining,” he explained.
These suspicions are still rife and a large section of the public is keenly following Court proceedings on two separate cases involving former Finance Minister and Central Bank Governor, Dr Kwabena Duffuor and Business mogul, Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom
Another respected journalist, Kwaku Baako Jnr has also condemned the collapse of the local banks in a recent media appearance.
Both Paul Adom Okyere and Malik Kwaku Baako have unapologetically shown their affinity to President Akuffo Addo and the New Patriotic Party. Paul Adom Okyere is a member of the governments appointees on the National Communication Board.
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Ghanamatters.com
