CLAIMING TO BE WHAT WE ARE NOT

Swindler claim of leadership expertise is one of the perpetual problems that have kept drawing Ghana backwards. Kwasi Pratt Jnr and Kwaku Baako Jnr (Journalists) never had any personal experience in the machinery of civil and public administration. 

But in 1993, just a year after we acquired democratic status as a nation, they began to condemn, lampoon, crucify and kill the government of Jerry Rawlings with their pens, as a result of which the New Patriotic Party seized power in 2000. But before President Kuffour’s coronation, Pratt and co had gunned him down beyond reform. 

Brethren, the sober truth are that those Ghanaians who used their mighty pens to invite the academia and corporate world into Ghanaian politics and destroyed the purposeful political leadership of Ghana with their jaundice theories laced with pro political viewpoints.

Instead of those initial pen-killers of Ghana, exemplified by Baako Jnr, Pratt Jnr and Haruna Atta, to concentrate on the subjects they know very well, which are Journalism and Communications, they arrogated to themselves the authority and expertise of political administration, and many Ghanaian idiots today who describe themselves as Ghanaian socio-political commentators and critics have followed their footsteps and footprints without any question. 

These new breeds of Kwaku Baako and Kwasi Pratt have failed to learn anything from Ghanaian history and have now ganged up along partisan lines against our hard-earned civilian government, which, like our post-Republican Administration, remains a learning experience and experiment in the art of public leadership.

That is where our problem lies, claiming to be what we are not, claiming to know how to lead a country when we cannot effectively and successfully control our personal lives, our personal businesses and those of our immediate family members. 

I still believe that the best way to ward thieves off our Ghanaian Government Houses is by having outnumbering men and women of integrity as practical contestants and contractors in Ghanaian political arena. Evil triumphs only in a society where there are no good men or where good men stand as mere talking onlookers, shouting tweaa kai and apuuu tei to evil-doers. 

Our tactic should be to encourage, as a matter of social campaign in the form of news media articles, essays, workshops, conferences, symposia, forum chats, and ethical reorientation, Ghanaians of high moral rectitude to troop, troop, troop en masse into the political field, instead of them standing out of it in fear and waiting for the day our political thieves will honorably resign from stealing on their own volition.