Reconciling The Detractive Nature Of Our ....

POLITICIANS TO IMPEDING DEVELOPMENT.

Politics is supposed to be one of the noble

vocations in which people are seen always striving hard to protecting and

defending the interest of their respective countries passionately while making

or implementing useful plans beneficial to the system in which they live.

The impression the average politician send each time they open their mouths to talk

is the fact that when they are not in power then government business must came to a

stand

still but are they the only people up to the task?

It is becoming obvious that politicians are

employing diversionary tactics especially some leading members of the National

Democratic Congress party and the New Patriotic party which is nothing but a

waist of tax payers resources preventing us from achieving the necessary

desires we all expect as a nation as far as development is concerned.

There is no enough time at our disposer to always be

dragging our feet here and there making the steering of affairs of this nation

a hell on earth for any one in power.

Without mincing words I want to state categorically

that this piece is not about the National Democratic Congress nor the New

Patriotic Party but any Ghanaian whose aim is to attain political power in this

country with all the necessary means even if it means thwarting the developmental

process of this country just to satisfy their meager myopic interests.

It is very much important for all of us to note that

the mills administration have been given a one term of four years mandate renewable

for another term if Ghanaians are impress with what his government is doing

hence the need for us to allow him and his team to deliver to us what they have

to offer until 2012 when we enter the electioneering year to retain or elect a

new leader. But what we are witnessing these days clearly point to the fact

that what our politicians want is to always enrich themselves at the peril of

the common Ghanaians whose interest they are supposed to safeguard.

Politicians by congruent imaginations are equally

expected to be middle men and women, spoke persons who are seen always toiling

for the common good of the habitat in which they exist.

Many a time one would want to know what at all there

is in the corridor of power that these greedy politicians will always want to

clinch to without letting go of. Could it be because of their comfort and self

satisfying lavicious life styles that they have become addicted to making it

hard for them to let go off?

Our politicians must learn to appreciate that

political power in Ghana is rising above diversionary tactics and propaganda to

win power only for us to be exposed to excuses and blame games instead of

delivering their promises but rather many eligible voters would want to be

shown and proven to why they should be voted for or simply put ones track

records as far as his or her political career is concern is becoming a fact

file that one can not do without.

If the adage” A child that says his mother will not

sleep will also not sleep” is anything to go by then I want to believe that as

long as one political orientation continues to obstruct the other from focusing

on their task while in opposition or government, when the table turn then the

other must equally expect to be treated so but the one million question is how

long are we going to continue treating each other with kick gloves?

The development of this country should go beyond our

movement in circus monkey instead of aggravating the speed and passion with

which they deliver what they promise the electorates.

Until our politicians jerk above mediocrity and

start to prove to all of us that they are not detractors but partners in

development, the question continue to linger on whether our politicians are detractors?

NATHANIEL MENSAH

WWW.NATMENSAH.BLOGSPOT.COM/NIIEQUAYE@YAHOO.CO.UK

THE WRITER IS A FREELANCE JOURNALIST BASED IN ACCRA