Member of Parliament for Madina, Francis-Xavier Sosu, has warned young persons who want to go into politics to make money.
He said the money-driven desire to go into politics can push them to engage in questionable conduct which will attract the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to come in to investigate
Even if they are not caught by the human laws, one day the almighty God will hold them to account for their stewardship, he said.
Speaking in an interview with Giovanni Caleb on the Drive Time show on 3FM, on Tuesday, October 17, the private legal practitioner said “We have gone through a series of lessons from careers that we can bring on board to change the course of our nation. That is how every young person seeking to do politics must begin to think, if you are thinking of making money in politics, just know that you are a candidate for jail because in no time you will it will catch up with them and the OSP may come after you, if the OSP doesn’t come after you your own conscience and someday God will come after you, the ultimate judge above all judges knows what you are doing.”
Asked whether he has ever taken a bribe to speak for a position he does not personally believe in, he answered “Absolutely not, and I will never ever do that.
“I will never take money to speak against my conviction. I think my prices are my values and I want to stand by my values and that is why even after I apologized after that outburst people were angry and disappointed by my apology.”
“To some people, I had to apologize for apologizing. But I had to maintain my position today that this is inconsistent with my values and so I won’t stand u for that’ So there is no way I will accept monetary consideration to speak against my conscience and what I cherish as values,” he said while touching on the apology he rendered for the profane language he used while speaking to the media in a recent demonstration organized by the Minority against the Bank of Ghana Governor Dr Ernest Addison.