I urge all stakeholders, all commentators, all persons in command of affairs to look in the mirror, then tell themselves and Ghanaians what they see

Now, let's get back to where we were. Where were we? Oh, about ECG containers. Have you realised how we are going round talking in circles again?

Not long ago when the president, whatever he saw, lamented that the whole country was a crime scene. I'm now getting to the understanding of what he really meant.

What the president said should not be misconstrued to mean the country Ghana had become a crime depot in reference to just the last eight years. The possibility that some within the system and in charge of decision-making in the country now are themselves very much in the crime venture.

That is, some criminals are still part of the system that is managing and controlling the affairs of the country. That possibility is probable. Some people within the system are themselves very corrupt.

Otherwise how come with this massive mandate from the people, the government, the state and indeed the system can not or have not been able to bring the burden of accountability onto anyone, when clearly we are all witnessing a continuous perpetration of crimes.

Why, with all the numerous law and order and crime-busting agencies and institutions, accountability has become a deficit in our overall domestic endeavour. Why?

Can anyone explain to us why heavy duty machines, for example, (excavators) siezed by the state went missing and nobody in this country has ever been charged with anything. And now we have heavy-duty containers in their thousands also going missing and yet again we are just talking about it and around it while perpetrators of such thefts are walking free and enjoying life in the full knowledge that nothing will ever happen to them.

Can this be because some of perpetrators are foreign investors, who know that the worst that could happen to them will be them being sent home to India or to Pakistan, there to suffer the burden of how to resettle in their own hometowns.

The second and the most likely reason why nothing will happen to the big men and women within and out of the ECG establishment is that these suspected culprits are aware of some dirty involvement in crimes of people in high places. So it has become a game of " you cover me, I cover you" The assumption is that these people in charge of affairs now, wouldn't rock the boat that may sink with every one of them. The whole country is in a mess.

There's no accountability whatsoever for high level, suit-wearing, english-speaking criminals. That's why our prisons are full with only labourers from galamsey sites and petty thieves. Ghana and black Africa for you.

How can a system now made more powerful through citizens mandate, a government that is so empowered by such massive support of and from the people, cannot or are not being able to arrest people for questioning.

How come. Today, as attentions are being diverted in various shapes and forms, ECG containers and materials are being discovered by local missionaries on pilgrimage from their local huts to the nearby latrines for a good early morning shit.

Cables and other equipment being found here and there yet in my country Ghana, nobody is accountable for this? Really?

At this rate, it wouldn't be out of place to arrive at a notion that the only salvation is for citizens, men and women of the streets to take the country and create and new, proper governance. That notion is unfortunately becoming attractive, very attractive indeed.