The Creator must be weeping….

I watched President Mills from the very moment he was elected as the Head of State of Ghana. The more speeches he gives the more my heart bleeds for mother Ghana. And for those people who are quick to dismiss my article because they are NDC supporters, I assure you that my intentions are solely for the benefit of all Ghanaians and also like to remind my readers I have no political affiliation. President Professor John Atta Mills has given various speeches asking God to intervene and help mother Ghana. Well, I am not against God helping Ghana except, I am angered by Professor Mills and his elite politicians who have bluntly refused to use their beautiful mind that the Almighty God has given them to create a better nation for all. Their laziness and lack of willingness for creativity is of great disturbance to me. I am highly disappointed by President Mills’ lack of vision and the whole Obama “want to be” attitude by constantly delivering not so well written and irrelevant speeches. I question his lack of reasoning and ungratefulness for not thinking like his Creator. The bible says ‘ God created man in his own image’ therefore it is the greatest insult to say the least that these political elites regardless of what party they belong, use the weakness of Ghanaians love for God for their own selfish corrupt political ambitions. These political elites are always willing and happy to show how religious they are however, always clueless and incapable to solve various problems such as poverty, mosquito eradication and drug war.

God gave Solomon wisdom and he became the Wisest man ever lived but for some obscure reasons Professor Mills, despite all his education and the blessings of becoming the leader of Ghana, he consciously or out of stupidity has no clue what to do and he spat on God’s face and says to God well, how about you send manna from heaven then perhaps I can lead and do my duty as head of state. May be I’m being too critical of President Mills because he has only been in office for less than a year. But, surely men with purpose and vision clearly stand out and never in a single breath are they ever over shadowed by their own lack of articulate speeches or spoken words. When Martin Luther King, Kwame Nkrumah and even Barack Obama spoke everybody understood and imagined their vision. However, when President Mills opens his mouth, not even himself understands or believe what he says and by the way, Jerry Rawlings and John Kuffour were worst. Ghana is a nation full of various mineral resources in addition to the finest brains and man power on earth. Yet, all these already wonderful blessings from the creater have deliberately gone to waste and sadly undiscovered. It is with great sadness that Ghanaians adores the West however, what they fail to recognised is that the Western civilisation was built by man who acted like man and not like mashed potatoes. The West’s mineral resources are no close at all to the rich mineral resources floating around the continent of mother Africa. However, these ungrateful leaders live on the richest continent on God’s planet yet the people they govern are the poorest under the beautiful Sun.

Tribalism is a danger to Ghana’s development…

As a kid, I witnessed many political pundits’ debate passionately about NPP and NDC on television. These debates were not simply about which party is best to lead Ghana but also which tribe is the best to lead the nation. Unsurprisingly, it is most likely that an Ashanti man would support NPP and non-Ashanti would support NDC all with great passion. Funny enough even in my old age I still see these debates between ordinary Ghanaians and more so than never, tribe determines which party one will affiliate. I am yet to find a Ghanaian who has not witnessed a political debate being argued without it having tribalism as the sole foundation. The latest hard fought 2008 election is evidence of Ghana’s tribal political democracy. The question is how one can reconcile tribe, politic and democracy to make a better nation for all.

My assessment on all of these tribal democracy and political debates is that each side unconsciously, seems to admit that both NDC and NPP parties have so far failed Ghana. Hence, I waste no time of mine to argue about who has failed Ghana the most and as far as I am concern failure can not be weighed. However, it should be treated as what it is thus, a failure and such it must be frowned upon by patriotic people who in their reasonable minds should seek to argue about getting the best out of their leaders regardless of which party is in power. Therefore, I urge Ghanaians not to be blinded by the fact that any particular leader is from their tribe therefore avoid to criticising them and holding them accountable for the lack of patriotism towards mother Ghana. For it is best to criticise things valuable and important to all than to be silent for the detriment of all Ghanaians. Let not conscious ignorance and unfounded hatred bring out the worst in you to the extent that your brain functions with baseless and unfruitful dangerous arguments. My careful conclusion is that Ghana can go toward a failed state due to tribal biased and ignorance for one can not look at a person’s tribe to assess him or her on their leadership skills.

Let me be clear, I am not by any means suggesting that Ghanaians have always voted on tribal connections nonetheless there is only one evidential exception thus the late Osagyefor Kwame Nkrumah who was voted with overwhelming support by Ghanaians. But the notion I bring forward is that, within these hostile tribal environment that Ghanaians have created means it will be almost impossible for an articulate and wise leader from either one of these tribal political parties to win an election with a huge support from all the various tribal groups in Ghana as a whole. So, to my fellow Ghanaians please do not act with tribal conscious stupidity and hold your politicians accountable only when they are from the ‘other side’. The harsh reality is that whether a leader is Ewe, Fante, Ashanti or Hausa, they are all corrupt and their lack of care for Ghanaians is detrimental to all. Notwithstanding, the awful reality which is that when these elite politicians regardless their party or tribal affiliation are busy stacking up money in Swiss banks, the welfare of any particular tribe does not concern them but rather they have themselves and their immediate family interest in mind.