Dear mother Ghana, is it our fault or it is our leaders?

It is said that “an army of sheep led by a lion, is stronger than an army of lions led by a sheep”, yet it has not been considered whether or not the sheep are competent enough to follow the lion, as also the army of lions are able to yield to the sheep.

We as Ghanaians commonly say “our bad leaders are the reason for our downfalls”, blaming every possible situation on the government’s lack of excellence, but have we ever measured our self-competence by the same type of instruments we used for our leaders? Did we examine ourselves before we threw the first stone? We have for 63 years, blamed our leaders for our misfortunes, but yet how far have we come? Where they all bad, or where we just finding a scapegoat to place all our troubles on.

Of course, all leaders must be scrutinized and held accountable for every bad decision they make, but the saying goes, that if your onion is acidic, then the land from which it came from is also equally acidic. Do we consider the five cedis we pay the policemen to escape capture or the ten cedis we pay the servicemen at the port for special treatment? If then the politician adds more zeros to his own, then what is it to you? Do you justify your right to scrutinize them because “their own was plenty”, or are just unaware of the fact that “your own” also causes problems, even though it is smaller?

I believe that we must first be the change we wish to see in others. Yes, our leaders sometimes falter, yes, they can do better than what they’ve done now, but like Jesus Christ once said to His disciples, “Look at the plank in your eye, before you look at the sawdust in someone else’s”. This is a call