Security analyst, Professor Kwesi Aning, has delivered a stinging indictment of Ghana’s governance system, describing the country not only as an anarchic state but, more damningly, as a "vampire state."

A term he says best captures the brazen looting of state resources by the very people entrusted to protect them.

Speaking in an interview on JoyNews' Newsfile, Prof. Aning lamented that those in positions of authority in Ghana have perfected the art of feeding on the state like political vampires — draining its lifeblood for private gain while leaving citizens to suffer the consequences.

“This is not only an anarchic state... This is also a vampire state, in which those who have been put into positions of authority suck the blood out of the state, spit the remaining out, and then pontificate to the state when it wants to do something,” Prof. Aning said on Saturday, April 5.

His remarks come in the wake of the national scandal involving the disappearance of over 1,300 containers belonging to the Electricity Company Ghana (ECG) from the Tema Ports under mysterious circumstances.

Prof. Aning expressed frustration over what he called a deliberate mischaracterisation of the scandal by officials who continue to describe the containers as “missing” rather than calling it what it truly is — theft.

“Missing is when your wallet drops, and you don’t know. Stealing is when somebody deliberately picks it from your pocket,” he said sharply.

Prof. Aning, the current scandal is not an isolated incident but a symptom of a much larger systemic failure — one in which public institutions have become tools for elite capture and personal enrichment at the expense of the ordinary Ghanaian.