Are there true leaders in Ghana if I may ask?

Fellow Ghanaians, could you look straight in the writer’s eyes and honestly answer the question, “Are there true leaders in Ghana”? The answer will surely be yes to some people while to others it will be no.

The writer is compelled by worrying ongoing and never-ending circumstances in Ghana to approach the public readers to seek an answer to whether there are true public and traditional leaders that worth their salt in Ghana, his ancestral place of birth.

For many years now, the country has been beset with problems that need solving, yet the leaders are either incapable of solving them or are completely not interested to finding solutions to them. However, they have been elected or appointed to lead the country and the people.

Water, one of the essentials of life, has come under the mighty destructive axe of illegal small scale and alluvial mining for the past several years yet, both the elected and appointed leaders look on without having any effective means to deal with the canker. They either don’t care, or they don’t have the brains and clout to deal with the problem.

All that the current crop of Ghanaian leaders is interested in is acquiring quick illegal money, fame, and power but nothing else. While their white contemporaries are permanently doing whatever it takes to better the lives of their people and countries and seriously taking up challenges to establish abode in outer space, here are Ghanaian leaders chasing vanities, presiding over the destruction of their country.

The writer is fuming, boiling with anger when the nation’s water bodies, railway lines, fertile and arable lands and forests are being destroyed by the activities of some hopeless, selfish, and greedy Ghanaian natives and their foreign accomplices while the so-called leaders look on completely nonchalant.

Do we do politics with solving a serious problem like the destruction of the number one or number two essential of life? No! It is only a blockhead that will play dirty politics with the issue of damage to the nation’s water bodies, forests, and lands.

If the practice of polarised multi-party democracies in Ghana has failed and continue to fail the country, in the face of the unfolding deliberately deplorable devastation of the essentials of life, what are the soldiers doing? Can’t they flex their strong muscles to put an end to the ongoing destruction of the rivers rather than choose to become accomplices by their silence and probable nonchalance? They have a role to play here apart from their strictly defined role of protecting their nation against external aggressions.

Many Ghanaians are clamouring for a military intervention in the governance of the nation should our elected politicians continue to be that ineffective in the face of all the ongoing heinous problems the country is beset with. People are being killed. Crimes of all sorts are on the ascendancy, yet the leaders seem to have no solutions to them but just hurtling to and from one radio station to another throwing dust into people’s eyes.

Are Ghanaians that dumb to continue to be thrown about in the name of polarised and partisan politics while the leaders fail to deliver on the terms for which they were elected?

Ghanaians, please, let us put dirty politics that seek the interests of a few individuals and political parties behind us to rather seek the collective interests of Ghanaians and the country. It should be Ghana first!

Lest I forget, are there true leaders in Ghana today that are selfless, farsighted and have the love of the nation and people at heart like President Captain Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso or President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, leaders that can take bold effective decisions in the best interest of their country? Yes or no?

The writer, the fearless and no-nonsense son of Kumawu/Asiampa soil, thinks pressure groups had better spring up to force our leaders to be up and doing to stop most, if not all, the devastating problems ongoing in the country.