Ghana needs honesty and truthfulness.

Public leadership, in whatever form, is demanding due to the enormous

and complex responsibilities involved. A public leader must therefore be

upright, consistent, responsible, and accountable for results in order

to offer valuable services to his country and society.

Some of our political leaders have not measured up to these qualities in the past,

hence have not performed well in office. From where I'm standing now,I can see

president Mahama putting those characters which nearly put the ndc party out of

power in the just end elections into positions which have a lots of question marks.

Their actions and inaction have often reflected a

commitment for personal gains rather than promoting the economic

development of the country. In exercise of their duties, they have

failed to set good examples of honesty and truthfulness, and thus,

betrayed the confidence bestowed upon them.

Responsive

leadership deals with the affairs and welfare of the society. For this

reason, our political leaders must bear in mind that they are

accountable to the public in their decision-making and not their

''Selfish Masters'' . Though, for a public leader to be responsible, he

must have the liberty to exercise powers conferred on him for the

execution of his duties; this freedom must be guided by equity and

fairness to avoid its misuse against the citizenry. Regrettably, some of

our political leaders have acted outside this norm, and consequently

allowed their actions to impact negatively on public good.

Decision-making is no longer governed by objectivity, transparency and

accountability. We can see this in the way and manner some of them have

misused state funds for projects that do not benefit the public but to

satisfy the whims and caprices of few individuals.

It is

important to emphasize that we cannot move forward as a nation unless

there is a deliberate and concerted effort on the part of our leaders to

see themselves accountable for their actions and inaction and implement

policies that seek the welfare of the citizenry.

We are a

nation in want; lacking basic infrastructure for economic development.

Our education, health, energy, road, agriculture, and other social

sectors need improvement. Our schools require modern learning materials

and tools; hospitals must be adequately equipped; our roads need

improvement to reduce accidents and road fatalities; and alternative

power generation are among the many basic social needs calling for

urgent attention in Ghana today. Dr. Clement Apaak, Dr. Sule Gariba and

the rest,I hope you people are listening.

To be able to meet

these needs, our political leaders must learn to make sacrifices, and

put in place realistic development measures to improve the living

conditions of the deprived. They must see themselves as owing Ghanaians a

collective responsibility to implement programs that contribute to the

economic development of the country. This is absolutely necessary

because responsive leadership is all about achieving results for public

good. The downfall of many presidents in this world has been their

inability to separate loyalty from competence and surrounding themselves

with sycophants and “praise singers” who sing praises all the way to

their banks.

Leaders should remember question that use to be

ask in their early days at basic level of their education which up till

date solutions are not been found to it. I would end by quoting “The

majority never has right on its side. Never, I say that is one of the

social lies that a free, thinking man is bound to rebel against. Who

makes up the majority in any given country?. Is it the wise men or the

fools?. I think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible

overwhelming majority, all the wide world over. But, damn it, it can

surely never be right that the stupid should rule over the clever!”

–Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright 1828-1906.

Ibrahim Hardi 0208235615

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