Monday 22 June 2009

President Mills is a dreadful leader…

The excuse that I hear is that it is too early to judge President Mills because he has only been in office for six months but I reject such excuse. So far he has not shown any leadership qualities and all he keeps doing is ranting around preaching about values, responsibility, unity and nation building. And in between all these, petrol prices are on the rise, he allows his party to spend ridiculous amount of Ghanaians money on lavish party whiles a member of his government had his first taste of the corruption syrup, not forgetting the recent approval of US$ 50,000 on car “loan” for members of Parliament. President Mill has not done anything that suggests that he has regards for the pain and suffering of the Ghanaian people. Worst of all, it appears that he is leading the nation based on some guideline from a book which depicts his lack of vision for the nation. However, Mills has been too good and very active on making life difficult for the previous government particularly the former President John Kuffour which also epitomizes his lack of intellect.

In contrast, under Kwame Nkrumah’s six years leadership, Ghana became a republic and created a new constitution as well as achieving a remarkable project of building the nation which we see today. He built roads, bridges, schools, railways, hospitals and among other things he did for mother Ghana in such a short space of time. Unfortunately, Ghana is yet to find another true leader who has vision just like the Great Osagyefor Kwame Nkrumah. My hope is that, this current generation of Ghanaians who have had the opportunity to witness the election of the first African American President would be inspired to take up the cross of leading Ghana in to the dream land of Nkrumah, where the new Africa is strong economically and industrialized to compete in this 21st century globalised world. I believe Nkrumah set the stage for Africa to be successful but the baton is yet to be pass on to the right generation.

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