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“Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”- which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”- Matthew 27:46.
“A
crisis that reoccurs a second time is a crisis that must not occur
again. A well-managed plant, I soon learned is a quiet place. A
well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because
the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine”-
Peter Drucker.
Ghana at 56 is a big laughing joke and yet some
organisations and individuals had the audacity to post advertisements in
the national media congratulating the nation. Look at Singapore. Look
at Malaysia. Look at South Korea. These are all countries Ghana either
started life before them or around the same time. Wonders will never
end. Those advertisers should have taken a cue from the latest gloomy
budget read to parliament to have canceled their adverts. Today, Ghana
is slowly but surely moving into becoming a failed state. No constant
supply of electricity. The “treated” water we drink smells and tastes
very badly. Nobody can plan his or her life. All these have resulted
from the unbridled and unsustainable greed of its leaders at all levels
and in every field of human endeavour from the political to the secular
to the evangelical to the academic to the traditional to labour unions,
name it.
Even labour leaders are abusing the trust imposed in
them by their lowly placed followers and selling the interest of the
employees to their employers and the political establishment. Not too
surprisingly, today all the magicians or “crofessors” of old have all
disappeared into thin air and metamorphosed or resurfaced as
evangelists, prophets, founders and presiding bishops of all kinds of
religious organisations with such outlandish names; it is intuitive to
ponder whether there is a competition going on in the selection of names
for these mushrooming religious organisations.
The greed cuts
across every segment of the society despite the massive ballooning in
religious activities and the unacceptable high level of productive time
spent by the citizens on religious services and activities day in day
out. The greed to take advantage of the political institution to gain
maximum advantage in the unbridled quest for undeserved and unearned
filthy wealth, all at the expense of the state, moves the greedy
bastards on in an unhealthy competition, as if the competition is for
the last position in heaven. It is so massive and compelling that even
persons of the ecclesiastical devotion have not escaped the temptation
of joining the conveyor belt of sociological concomitants of sycophancy,
bootlicking and praise singing which have been choreographed by our
traditional rulers manifested in the continuous and constant visit to
the presidential villa to pay obeisance to the current political
usurpers sitting on borrowed throne.
How persons expected to be
role models for the unfortunate of the society and the youth and others
seeking salvation can overtly and covertly associate themselves with
leadership of a political regime which stole state funds to come into
existence and win itself into political power and continues to use state
funds to prosecute its unholy agenda and whose continued legitimacy is a
subject of Supreme Court dispute, is mindboggling. It saddens me to see
that some citizens of the society who should under normal circumstances
act as role models are rushing to or lobbying for positions or having
photo sessions with these political usurpers. Many of these people have
already lived a full life or already living a life of unimaginable
comfort, finished looking after their children, acquired respectable
amount of properties, live on decent pensions and should be spending
their time writing their memoirs.
Yet they appear to be the most
guilty ones. Ghana? We can never make it, forget it. Period. This is a
country without dedicated, patriotic, competent and visionary leadership
prepared to offer accountability for their office. There are too many
criminals in responsible positions and positions of trust in this
country to make this country work. In a political system where the seat
of government is itself the epicentre of the corruption industry with
unprecedented gargantuan corruption earthquakes, Woyomegate fashion,
occurring unceasingly and registering close to the magical figure of ten
on the Richter scale, it will require the second coming of the arch
angels to descend from their heavenly throne to sweep away those
charlatans before salvation can reign and sanity restored.
You
name it, no sector of the society has escaped from this canker of
corruption, incompetence and lack of integrity and accountability in
national life of office holders. The nation has become one big punching
punch bag used by the greedy parasites in charge of national affairs to
test their evil strength in indulging in corruption and looting of state
resources. Oh Merciful and Ever Gracious Allah, what sins did we commit
as a nation to be managed by a political system composed of characters
the founder of the system describe as greedy bastards and thieves? Why
have some people sold their education, self-respect, family names and
conscience for a calabash of palm wine to other persons no better than
themselves but whose only claim to respectability is that they are
crooked enough to use state resources to achieve political power? What
would it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his
soul? Thou fool, your soul is required of thee tonight. A fool has
indeed said in his heart there is no God. Yesterday, a monarch he; today
subject of the flees. Why such boastings, oh man!
Today, the
nation has awoken up to a new breed of political philosophers who are
completely out of tune with the political realities on the ground. These
persons are well-connected in the society. They could do well and serve
society better by keeping their mouths shut at this time when the
nation is mourning an upgraded edition of the Stolen Verdict, instead of
throwing monkey winches into the current legal battle going on in the
Supreme Court. They constantly use their exalted positions in society
and illegitimate claims of belonging to the NPP to distract attention
from the core reasons for the Supreme Court action. With friends like
these offering unsolicited advice to the NPP leadership on open
political platforms, the NPP and the nation of right thinking citizens
do not need enemies thrown into their midst.
What they fail to
realize is that it is not the NPP against the NDC and the Electoral
Commission. It is a legitimate battle to assert the rights of the
citizens to a democratic sanity, the right to clean up a rotten
electoral system, the right to decide the people who should legitimately
manage the affairs of the nation state, the right to uproot acts of
impunity from our society, the right to send stealers and usurpers into
the dustbin of history and the hottest part of hell so that the nation
state can be cleansed and saved from another episode of Noah’s Ark or
Sodom and Gomorrah. Acceptance of the December 2012 election results as
declared by the Electoral Commission will instantly mean legitimisation
of one party state, the imposition of the rule of jungle and the
ultimate invitation of chaos and violence and their attendant unbearable
consequence. Once we accept the results of the December 2012 elections
as declared by the Electoral Commission, everybody should forget our
democratic dispensation and forget about any future elections.
What
this country needs at this time is united devotion to the course of
justice and not the utterances of self-seeking individuals whose real
motives are shrouded in undefined agenda and secrecy. Even in the brutal
sport of boxing, you do not hit your opponent when he is on the ground.
So let the so-called friends of the democratic principles whose real
motives appear to gather sympathy for the sinking NDC political
machinery to save us from inflicting brutal punches on the psychic of
the populace and kicking the good people of this country in the groin
when spirits are down. We can do without their rabblerousing.
Today,
the fact that agents of the Electoral Commission have been caught pants
down in various parts of the country in their unguided attempts to
manufacture and falsify evidence, a criminal act, and the fact that the
NDC has seen the wisdom to surreptitiously distance itself from the
Electoral Commission, is a pointer to the fact that only an intervention
of unprecedented gargantuan of satanic proportion can save the present
NDC regime from massive judicial defeat at the Supreme Court.
Falsification of court evidence is not only a crime but also an
acceptance of guilt. Running away from the scene of crime is also an
acceptance of guilt. The Electoral Commission has been caught in these
two unholy acts by the acts of its agents. What other evidence does the
Supreme Court need to pronounce judgment? The fact that the Electoral
Commission stands disgraced is only a matter of time. The fact that the
usurpers will be removed from the throne is only a matter of time. The
Electoral Commission and the NDC have suddenly realized that the
decision of the Supreme Court case would be quantitatively based and
therefore objective measures would be used and not qualitatively based,
thereby leaving little room for subjectivity. |
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