When Visionless Leaders Rule.

WHEN VISIONLESS LEADERS RULE
In writing this piece I have concurred to a dictum or two which I think shall be of great help to us and to also bring out the real meaning this writing is intended to put across.

Kwame Nkrumah (1st President of Ghana) said “Let us unify ourselves in policies and in action".

The current president of Ghana Prof. E. A, Mills also said that, “fellow Ghanaians, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters. Kwame Nkrumah built a good Ghana; let us also unite to build a better Ghana".

It sometimes saddens my inner being whenever I see the leaders of the land backsliding and co-mingling with what needs not to be done.
It is about time the leaders of the land knew how to set their priorities right and good.

Look, we the youth of today have been adviced to provide some sort of solutions to a problem whenever we do criticize, and I am so much glad to have gotten one or more solutions which I think when adopted would help to bring all our problems to minimal.

In view of this, I need to judge fairly void of any bias, since to be true to others, then you must have first of all being true to yourself because

"The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may".-Anonymous..

The fact is that, the leaders of the land do not know how to set their priorities right and to set them to benefit at least the majority of the people.

They have no idea of separating needs from wants. The leaders do not even know that-in everything, it is always "first thing first".

The first president of America, the man with the integri procedamus,on the day of his inaugural ceremony did say that, he is not going accept or take anything in the form of a token which signifies or praises his presence for being in the office of the presidency.

Yes indeed, he never took any dollar or cent from any citizen or from the tax payer's money. He said the presidency is a call to service and not an imposition. He said it is a voluntary work, and for a reason, would not in any way charge an amount for it.

Down here in Africa, Ghana for precision, the leaders debate and argue strongly over who is to get what and what is to get to whom. This is much evident in the debate over the tale of longer days as in the "ex-gratia".

When there are so many dieing bodies down in the streets of our motherland, they have sought to confide in kalabuleism and the rest.

When, over hundred years since the inception of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital, Pantang), its pipe lines have never been changed.
Thus in itself is causing a very huge problem, economically and socially to the nation aside the normal bustling of huge water shortages in the country to the detriment of the over-accommodated number of mentally-deranged people admitted there.

Yet, we do celebrate the world's water day.

I strongly think there is no reason to celebrate this event amid our dirty and stinking problems of water bazaar

We have not being able to reduce our maternal death rate by 75%,1 out of every 4 persons do not have a square meal, but about USD25million is to be used to construct new offices for the parliamentarians of the land.

First thing first. Most politicians all over Africa are politically insane and corrupt.

This is because once they get into office, all of a sudden everything of theirs tend to change, from their attitude to their way of living, which indeed can not move the nation any further, regardless of the number of measures the very few moral ones are able to put in place (never forget where you come from and for that matter where you were born).

Aristotle once said that, and I paraphrase: those who hold on to power as an end in itself is inimical to the pursuit of the public interest, and accordingly, to good governance".

Where the leaders need to construct roads to facilitate the efficient and smooth transportation of goods, you see them talking about their salaries.

Where they need to think about how to create employment for their citizenry, they waste the whole day sitting under fully air-conditioned rooms with their girlfriends

Our leaders do not have any thing good for us the youth of Ghana. If they do, I do not think they would be taking $800million as their benefit when people at 'kORLE BU" (government built hospital) are suffering from common water, food and even where to lay their heads.

In fact, our leaders have all failed us. They failed us in advance even before the very first day they cling unto their respective positions.
Now, where do we go from here?

In a society of this sought, the only best alternative move for the less-privileged, the poor, unemployed and the rest is to weird themselves with arms and to fight for survival. Cos' if our leaders are refusing to think like leaders then they need to suffer the consequences of the pain inflicted indirectly on the populace.

This reminds me of a typical saying by Edward Blyden (an ideologist of Pan-africanism), that: we need thinkers, thinkers of great thoughts. We need leaders, born leaders of men.

Time immemorial, Africa has had very few good and dedicated leaders with a vision who undoubtedly are for the interest of the people.
Many also thought that, being in power is an end to poverty and struggle but that is not so. Zimbabwe’s Mugabe and Libya's Muamar Gardaffi are typical examples blaspheming the good name of Africa.

Their major argument is that, because they have relieved the nation from the strong arm of imperialism and colonialism, they should be the rightful persons to lead till.

In fact I was so much perplexed the very day I heard President Mugabe referring to himself as being above the constitution of his own land.

I sometimes weep in my room.
As I type now, my heart is very heavy, why?, because I do not think that the youth of today in Africa have a future and I do not also think the leaders o f our land do have us in mind. No future for the youth, no life. You need to stand up for your own survival.
We are much filled with despair.

It is only the very little ones born with golden spoons in mouth, and those whose parents have happened to give them sound and quality education that have better dream and hope.

May God save Africa and may God save us all.
In reading the book “The man of the people" by Chinua Achebe (one great African writer).I found a much thoughtful and pro-founding statement which made me thought for nearly close to an hour figuring the actual meaning of the true-life meaning of the statement itself.

He said and I paraphrase, “In our time we had a saying. This was the only saying you would ever hear from the mouths of elders and elders, and about soaring and making it in society-(whom you know).

Education in Africa has very little or no value at all. Education becomes useless after you have toiled the length and breadth of their lands about how to make it life, when suddenly it is time to face the job market with difficulty just because-it is all about whom you know.

I wish not for a return to colonial rule but should it happen I would just thank my God.
I am a patriotic AFRICAN; nonetheless, Africans are not ready to govern themselves.

The only mistake that the colonial master did and for that matter failed to realised was the typical saying “Let the people think they govern and they will be governed".-William Penn(1644-1718

Majority of Africans felt that they were being exploited and for that fact have to rebel against the strong arms of theirs.

I totally side with Lord Action when he said "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
Because of the absolute clinging to power in my continent, everything is gone haywire. Justice is buried in a sack.
And guess what, they as well expect to see peace and justice. The Nigerian men will say-Lailai.

Never, “Injustice everywhere is a threat to justice anywhere"-Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr.

Corruption! Corruption!! Corruption! In Africa we eat under corruption, sleep under corruption, and wake up from corruption.

We do everything under corruption. According to the African Union, corruption alone cost Africa USD148billion a year.

China once pledged Africa $1obillion in low-interest loans over the next three years. This is miserable, the misest thing that should ever happen to a nation.

We also receive $25billion as aid from the West, all to no avail.
Yet, we say we want to develop.

The leaders of Africa should be aware that whatever thing they do, thinking because it was done in the bedroom (Secrecy), they would not be caught.

I strongly believe that "one day, one day-monkey go go market e yo,na e ebi say e no go fit return(One day, at the market, information reaching the corrupt would be that, his time for judgment is come. Then he shall advice himself as to whether to abide by wisdom and not to return home or to return home.
Whatever you do, there will always come a time when someone will look you up-either to thank you or to kill you".-Gen. I. K. Acheampong (A president of Ghana)

A man was once asked whether he does pray for the nation, he said “I look at the leaders and I pray for the nation”. When the leaders are visionary, there is no problem, but when they are not, then I bow down my head in total sorrow to pray for them.

It is just like the captain controlling the rudder. If he or she is inexperienced then all are likely to register their names at the places for the death.

God bless Ghana, God bless Africa and may God bless the world, most of all, God bless me, and may he also bless every woman.
More especially; my mother and my girlfriend.

Amen and Amen
Uncle Ato. (This piece is yet to have its second editing; any difficulty in reading is deeply apologized. One is free to use any part of it in his/her writings)