By Nana Asare Baffour
The government’s posture on accountability has become a masterclass in hypocrisy. On one hand, officials sermonise about fiscal discipline, sacrifice, and tough economic choices. On the other hand, approximately US$300 million disappears under their watch money that could have completed between 15 and 19 Agenda 111 hospitals for suffering communities across Ghana.
This contradiction is not accidental; it is systemic and deliberate.
How does a government that lectures citizens on belt-tightening justify the loss of funds capable of delivering nearly twenty fully functional district hospitals? How does it condemn alleged waste elsewhere while presiding over one of the most consequential opportunity losses in recent healthcare history?
While unfinished hospital structures decay across the country, the same government that cites “lack of funds” to delay healthcare delivery looks away when resources vanish. This is not prudence. It is policy hypocrisy at its worst.
Let us be clear:
You can not preach accountability and practise negligence.
You can not invoke fiscal constraints while tolerating fiscal recklessness.
You can not claim moral authority when your actions strip districts of hospitals and citizens of hope.
Every time government officials mount platforms to criticise past administrations, they must answer one simple question:
Where are the 15–19 hospitals that US$300 million should have delivered?
This is not governance; it is double-speak.
It is not leadership. It is selective accountability.
And it is not reform; it is repackaged failure cloaked in rhetoric.
Ghanaians are no longer persuaded by speeches. They are persuaded by results. A government that loses money capable of completing nearly twenty hospitals forfeits the moral right to lecture anyone on discipline, responsibility, or prudent management.
Healthcare can not be sacrificed on the altar of hypocrisy.
Public trust can not survive double standards.
Ghana can not move forward on excuses.
