By Aaron Hammond 
Politics in Ghana often feels like a football match where supporters must defend every tackle made by their team.
Dennis Miracles Aboagye has chosen a different path by speaking openly about the mistakes committed by his own party.
Appearing on Joy News, the former presidential communications director made it clear that party loyalty should never blind anyone to reality.
When things go wrong, politicians must summon the courage to admit failure instead of sugarcoating incompetence for the public.
That bold posture has caused massive debates across local radio stations and digital media platforms throughout the country.
Defending the judiciary from attacks
The outspoken communicator also waded into controversies surrounding the judiciary and cautioned politicians against weaponizing every single institutional observation.
He argued that the Acting Chief Justice, Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, has every right as a citizen to commend positive government progress.
According to him, acknowledging good work should not automatically label a senior judge as a partisan political actor.
Dragging our legal luminaries into everyday political mudslinging only destroys public trust in the country’s independent democratic pillars.
Ghanaians must learn to respect state institutions rather than reading partisan meanings into every single official comment or action.
Scrapping lazy state boards
On the controversial issue of dissolving inactive state-owned enterprise boards, Aboagye gave the current administration unexpected thumbs up.
He admitted that many boards established under the previous government were completely unproductive while still draining public coffers.
Some appointees collected sitting allowances regularly without adding any meaningful value to the growth of those public institutions.
Aboagye noted that cutting down these bloated and dormant structures is a step in the right direction to save money.
Taxpayers cannot continue funding luxury allowances for people who treat public boards as retirement packages without working.
Admitting past economic hardships
The most striking part of his submission touched squarely on the heavy economic difficulties Ghanaians suffered under the previous administration.
He openly blamed excessive borrowing and poor administrative choices for pushing the national economy into severe distress.
Many party communicators usually struggle to accept these harsh truths, but Aboagye faced the music with raw honesty.
True leadership requires deep reflection and genuine acceptance of past faults so that political parties can correct their paths.
Until politicians stop defending every obvious failure, the electorate will continue to demand higher standards of accountability.
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