The Ghanaian’s silly infatuation with bribery, extortion and corruption never abates regardless of the circumstance.

Now that the world is almost on a lockdown with businesses collapsing, airlines grounding their aircrafts with owners ordering their staff to proceed home on compulsory unpaid leave, etc., a detestable scenario is unfolding at the Kotoka airport in Ghana.

The luggage check-in staff of some of the few airlines still allowed into the country despite the outbreak of the fatal coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, are engaged in active corruption to enrich themselves.

The following is how they do it. Some of the airlines, especially the British Airways, have come out with a policy similar to that of promotion sales to attract more passengers to patronise their aircrafts.

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Eleven key accountable institutions (KAIs) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate and exchange information to combat corruption and crime in the country.

The agreement was spearheaded by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), with financial support from the Accountability, Rule of Law and Anti-corruption Programme (ARAP), an EU-sponsored initiative.

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The state of affairs of our nation is a cause of worry and concern to every concerned citizen. This worries naturally raises the question, where lies the hope of this country as corruption engulf the entire social, political, economic and cultural institutions of this country; the very institutions mandated to make things right for our own betterment.

The family which is the basic unit of the society is mandated to procreate and socialize its members to become well-disciplined citizens of the society. However, the family itself needs to be socialized and disciplined as corruption hovers and smells around the family.

Most parents relent and neglect their responsibility towards their children. Parents who are role models for their children engage in smoking, drinking and barbaric behavior in the house.

Parents who are to inculcate moral values in the children are rather demoralized, hence losing the moral courage to shape the behavior of their children. The family is corrupt because its very foundation was or is fornication which results in pregnancy and that translates into the family with a single parent and abandoned children. So I ask, where lies the hope?

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