Sydney Casely-Hayford, sydney@bizghana.com
JDM is in the Merchant Bank saga, big time. Whether he likes it or not, he placed himself there when he did not follow his own code of ethical guidelines, with which he expects his ministers to conform. Unless it is one of those politician things where you say something or develop a regulation or rule simply to assuage the populace with no intention of ever monitoring the code. And we have several of such in Ghana.
But how different is Vice President JDM from President John D Mahama? Does the President carry different ethics now than what he once had as Vice President? The NDC Government has tried all week to separate the President and the previous Vice President as of different ilk. From what they say, he followed what his then boss President Mills wanted done, the obedient assistant rather than the upright, confident, ethically opinionated, highly moral President we now have. Read the rest of this entry »