Member of Ghana's ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Nyamah,lamented the country's high level of corruption.

On Tuesday, September 12, 2023, Nyamah claimed that practically every Ghanaian engages in corrupt behaviour to escape challenging circumstances.

The majority of people moan about corruption, but you see them bribing police officers and other government officials when they run into problems.

“99.9% of the people of Ghana are corrupt in our hearts, in our minds, and in our souls. What we are good at doing is sitting and pointing fingers and telling people how bad they are doing.

“I have fought it (corruption) physically, I have fought it spiritually, and I have prayed. I've done all this and I'm saying that internally, something needs to change in our mental thinking process.

"You take even the cultural makeup and the environment; it is all encouraging corruption. What we like to do is that Oh, this one is corrupt, and we sit down and talk about the person.

“You turn next and you are the worst. You are bribing the policeman or you are doing something – we all do it to get out of a situation,” he said.

The aspiring parliamentarian indicated that he has taken the decision not to criticise corrupt practises until something drastic is done to liberate the minds of Ghanaians from corruption.

“… it has taken me that lonely fight to realise that I'm not different from all these people I've been accusing of corruption and so it's time to just call it quits until something dramatic happens—maybe some external force drops on our heads and our minds change.”

He added that the state agencies that are in charge of fighting corruption, including the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), know that the fight is lost and are merely engaging in pretence.

“You ask them one on one in their rooms and you finish and go into your room and cry... They know what they're doing is window dressing. The problem is bigger than that. This country is a mess.”