I CAN NO LONGER BEAR JM'S POLICIES

I wish I get the nod of the New Patriotic Party to fly its ticket to champion those of our nation who could no longer bear" JM’S policies.

I understand the anger and concerns of a great number of Ghanaians, unemployment, job insecurity, poor housing, poor healthcare and lastly insecurity which is becoming a prolonged nightmare in Ghana.

I understand the fears about our common future, the failures of our democracy to lift Ghanaians out of poverty to prosperity"

Ghana must find a path again which will give it back all of its meaning; I am willing to show Ghanaians a different perspective of what the presidency should look like. I want a candidate of reconciliation and trust to rally the nation together to prosperity. 

I want to offer Ghanaian youth a better life than I had not seen: I want to put the drive back in the Ghanaian dream.  For  “where there is no visions the people perish.” a biblical declaration very true of a generation that has succumbed to unbelievable levels of mediocrity, one that sing and dance for MM/DCES, Members of Parliament and Presidents who build a few roads and then endlessly justify all the other failings of government.

My heart bleeds at seeing the large agents of mediocrity across Ghana who have made a career from justifying the inexcusable failure of the past and present governments at all levels and count some mediocre projects as achievements even after some fifty six years (57) of independence; Ghana is a certified failed country in spite of abundant human and material resources.

We live in the 21st century, an era that has heralded the most advanced technology ever known to man. From the internet to face book, YouTube to twitter, solar energy to wind energy, GPS to space tourism, the world is navigating through revolutionary technology in all spheres at a dizzying pace. Technology brings with it possibilities and solutions for all kinds of human challenges, it takes away the constraint and arduous task of needing to “reinvent the wheel,”  yet in the age and midst of such possibilities, Ghana has regressed into a failed state lacking the most basic infrastructure. 

Sadly, there abound so many soaked in the muddied waters of mediocrity, willing to applaud and defend the government in the open glare of colossal failings. Most worrying is the well-travelled and educated elite who are now either the purveyors, enablers or chief defenders of mediocrity. Ghana is the only country where so called leaders are endlessly praised and celebrated for doing less than 15% of their job even when the 15% is mostly of doubtful quality. This trend is evident all across Ghana as governments construct a several substandard roads, erect some cranky boreholes in a few communities and get treated to dance troupes and praise singers for failing in his job. Same goes for the members of parliament who are toasted and celebrated for patching up a few spots in some badly damaged asphalt roads that continues to kill thousands of victims annually. 

Every year endless hypes and noise is made  about the purported achievement of government; how things are improving; how this and that president is ‘performing,’  but beneath all that deceit  propaganda is the reality of failure across all strata of  governance in Ghana. Neither the president nor any of the ministers are successful.  None of them can pass even the most basic test of good governance and accountability. Government in this time is all about scamming and mediocrity. They loot public funds, deceive the public with some mediocre projects and together with a mediocre populace celebrate their failings as success. 

Notwithstanding the mechanics of state failure, all too present in Ghana, the justifiers and enablers of mediocrity are everywhere singing praises of government for non-performance and giving endless excuses why the much desired basic infrastructure and social services does not exist. A nation where so many are ever too willing to defend visionless and underperforming governments cannot succeed. At a time when so many ambitious and progressive nations around the world are blazing an audacious trail in economic, infrastructural and social development, Ghana is behind in time. A dirty, stumbling, un-ambitious giant of failure consigned to the ignoble depths of penury.

The choice is clear, it is either we emancipate ourselves from the veneration of mediocrity, and put our leaders under enormous pressure to fulfill our aspirations for economic, social and infrastructural development or continue with mediocrity and be consumed by the social violence of a failed dysfunctional nation.