While there was a successful engagement with the press in Parliament on Monday morning where the Speaker of Parliament, Rt Hon Alban S.K Bagbin interacted with the newly elected executives of the Parliamentary Press Corps, there seem to be a spin on a particular statement he made about the ex Ghana Football Association(GFA) President, Kwesi Nyantakyi.
It’s amusing to observe that, the sum up of the successful interaction, which bothered on the wellbeing of the pressmen and the development of their skills, among others, were buried in a complex scheme to project a mere example he made in reference to the predicaments of the former GFA boss who has been suspended from football administration.
The Speaker alluded that the forced exit of Mr Nyantakyi from local and international football administration illuminated the price there was to pay for corruption that goes beyond the person perpetuating it and sometimes affects a whole nation or even the global community as was in the case of Mr Nyantakyi.
In this world people are supposed to be punished for what they do and not what others do, as the Good Book says in Ezekiel 18:20 : “The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself”, but the structure of the global community, deepened by geo politicsand the complexity of power play has make communities pay for the sins of their leaders.