{"id":765964,"date":"2022-01-25T11:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T11:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/people-are-in-politics-to-amass-wealth-not-serve-joe-jackson\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T11:37:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T11:37:24","slug":"people-are-in-politics-to-amass-wealth-not-serve-joe-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/people-are-in-politics-to-amass-wealth-not-serve-joe-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"People are in politics to amass wealth, not serve \u2013 Joe Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Politics of Tuesday, 25 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-25<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/23076868.295.jpg\" alt=\"Poitics has become only motivation for people to get unexplained wealth in the country - Joe Jackson\" title=\"Poitics has become only motivation for people to get unexplained wealth in the country - Joe Jackson\" width=\"295\" height=\"163\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Poitics has become only motivation for people to get unexplained wealth in the country &#8211; Joe Jackson<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">The Business Operation Director at Dalex Finance and Leasing Company Limited has said the reason people want to be politicians is only to amass wealth and not to serve as they claim.<\/p>\n<p>According to Joe Jackson, people are emboldened to siphon money from the state because corrupt officials are not prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p>In his view, politics has become the only motivation for people to get unexplained wealth in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have been found to be corrupt in recent times and are walking free with their shoulders high in society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jackson said these in an interview on the Ghana Yensom morning show hosted by Kwame Obeng Sarkodie on Accra 100.5 FM on Tuesday, January 25, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He bemoaned that \u201cduring the tenure of the former President John Dramani Mahama, it was babies with sharp teeth, and now is the Akyem Mafia among others who are calling the shots in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described as worrying the fact that people are comfortable being corrupt in the country while bemoaning that 40 percent of state resources was lost to corruption in 2020 per the Auditor General\u2019s report.<\/p>\n<p>He said Ghanaians are unhappy about what is ongoing in government adding that although corruption has \u201cbeen with us since the days of Adams it has reached an alarming proportion in recent times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that the situation where leaders are enjoying at the expense of the ordinary person on the street is the bane of the strikes all over the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs leaders, you cannot ask the people to bite the bullet while you bite chocolate,\u201d he posited.     <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jackson noted that fighting corruption head-on will create opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics of Tuesday, 25 January 2022 Source: classfmonline.com 2022-01-25 Poitics has become only motivation for people to get unexplained wealth in the country &#8211; Joe Jackson The Business Operation Director at Dalex Finance and Leasing Company Limited has said the reason people want to be politicians is only to amass wealth and not to serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":765965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}