Ghanaian satirist Kwaku Sintim-Misa, popularly known as KSM, has drawn attention to what he describes as a silent war against recent financial reforms, particularly the performance of the newly operationalised Gold Board.
According to him, the Board’s efforts have led to a remarkable GH¢5.7 billion being earned for the country within just four months—a feat he believes would have otherwise benefited criminal networks and foreign actors.
“Do you think it’s easy how the cedi is appreciating amazingly?” KSM asked rhetorically, before urging Ghanaians to look beyond surface politics.
“You go and sit down with people who understand policies that are in place and the things that are now being done with the new gold board. Go and sit down with them and listen.”
He warned that the significant revenues generated by the Board had disrupted illicit flows that previously benefited smugglers and corrupt entities.
“All that money would have been in somebody’s pocket,” he said. “Thanks to the gold board… all this money would have been leaked to Chinese, to Indians, to other nationals, to criminals.”
According to KSM, these reforms are not without pushback. He suspects that those who previously profited from such corrupt structures are already plotting to reclaim their losses. “Do you think they are sitting down quietly?” he asked.
“They are masterminding, they are planning. How do we get rid of this? How do we get things back our way, which was the wrong way?”
Framing the situation as a fight between progress and entrenched interests, KSM invoked a sense of growing civic consciousness, particularly among younger generations. “People are woke,” he said. “The millennials, their thinking is different. There’s more focus, there’s more direction and they are more and more and more resilient to nonsense.”
