Mahama Ayariga
Hon. Mahama Ayariga sustained serious integrity injuries when his stinking atlas project made the headlines. After his bloody escapades in Bawku, this latest blow to his image appears to have stung him so badly he is seeking cover by all means.
When he fielded media questions regarding his newfound love for school atlases, not only did he perform so poorly he looked like a hopeless young man entrapped in a financial mess of unusual proportions.
It was a failed stress test for a bruised Mahama Ayariga who has not been left out in the mad rush for what looks like the scramble for spoils of war by NDC appointees.
He sounded unconvincing as he passed snide remarks about the DAILY GUIDE as though the paper was the source of his avoidable woes. Resorting to insults and outright undermining of the image of those who oppose their financial misdemeanour is a characteristic pastime of tainted politicians in the ruling party especially under intense and sustained pressure from an active opposition party.
We would have ordinarily ignored Mahama Ayariga as we have always done to uncouth NDC persons of his ilk but considering the outrageous amount involved in the atlas project doing so would be shirking our sacred responsibility to our Motherland.
He is the type who when they flip and suddenly start stammering under pressure choose to throw their punches rather carelessly, a shadow boxing of sorts.
His ostensible Good Samaritan role of pug-nosing into the function of a department directly in charge of the atlas project smacks of corruption.
Under pressure, he chose to present the DAILY GUIDE as a newspaper unworthy of consideration, a position at variance with what most Ghanaians think. If the performance of our functions as a newspaper in reporting the outrageous looting of state resources makes us undeserving of his commendation, so be it.
Winning the heart of a man of questionable integrity, one with many skeletons in his cupboard spanning from the streets of Bawku to the Education Ministry should not be elating anyway.
Mahama Ayariga would do himself immense good if he introduces some finesse in the way he robs the state of money. So far, he has failed to cover his tracks, a suggestion that he should be more sophisticated if he wants to escape the public radar.
We find his performance from the tractor scandal to the inflated schools project in the Bawku area and now the atlas rip-off as enough evidence about his penchant for public thievery.
As to whether our report about his membership of appointees deeply involved in ripping off the state kitty is veracious or mendacious, we leave the judgment to the good people of Ghana whose overwhelming support of our service is ample evidence of their acquiescence of our performance.
