What is important is to ensure that no private company in Ghana has a monopoly resulting from political patronage.
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What is important is to ensure that no private company in Ghana has a monopoly resulting from political patronage.
The question is: Can Westblue and G-CNet - both rumoured to be beneficiaries of past political patronage - coexist in the market?
If not how can they be made to compete on a level playing field to win the right to provide what is a vital service needed by the nation?
We need to end the phenomenon of governments selecting private-sector 'winners' as a means of financing ruling parties by stealth.
If Westblue had competed in an open tender and won the right to provide the single widow services it now provides, fairly, in the first place, the "rumoured" unedifying wrangling to ditch it in favour of G-CNET now underway, wouldn't be occurring, would it?
How did we end up with a system in which the nation's wealth is increasingly being purloined by a greedy and super-ruthless vampire-elite?
Democracy won't survive in such a system - so the Ghanaian media must be alive to its responsibilities to society: by exposing wrongdoing wherever it occurs.
What is important is to ensure that no private company in Ghana has a monopoly resulting from political patronage.
The question is: Can Westblue and G-CNet - both rumoured to be beneficiaries of past political patronage - ...
read full comment