Former National Security Coordinator, Kofi Bentum Quantson has warned of a possible public revolt if pragmatic steps are not taken to address what he says are the high levels of corruption in the country. Speaking at an IEA roundtable discussion on the topic “Beyond the Frontiers of National Security,” Mr. Quantson said it is about time politicians placed the country’s interests ahead of their personal motives to check the rot in governance. “If good governance, probity and accountability and transparency are made the pillars of our political system and if negative traits like corruption, impunity, intolerance, arrogance and rancour are interdicted, there should be no cause or space for any unwarranted military adventurism into our politics. “Whether, as a nation, we can achieve these objectives will determine the success to keep the military out of politics. But if they stay out of politics and the political and economic rot predominates, then we must brace ourselves for a people’s revolt. When the people revolt, we can’t contain it,” he said. Mr. Quantson also suggests that the media has also lost its integrity because it is not effectively watching government and especially politicians. “Indeed, there are occasions when you begin to wonder whether the accolade of the press as the purported fourth estate of the realm has any current justification in this country. If you have a situation where powerful or vicious economic and political interests can exploit the poverty, inflate the ego, manipulate the vanity, pamper the cheapness, massage the ignorance and illiteracy of some journalists to wage vicious public relations campaigns against their adversaries then wherein lies the integrity of the Fourth Estate? It becomes a sham and a placid taste of perfidy,” Mr Quantson said. Meanwhile, National Security Advisor Brigadier General (Rtd) Nunoo-Mensah has defended the decision of the Mills administration to remove some appointees of the previous administration. Brigadier General (Rtd) Nunoo-Mensah said some of the appointees were either incompetent or had indulged in corrupt practices. Source: Myjoyonline.com/Ghana