End of gerontocracy in leadership in Ghana

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• Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

  What is gerontocracy - people in leadership older than you and who don't belong to your generation? Pleeeeeeeeeeze Mahama is proving to be a clueless and useless leader. Ghanaians are thieves and support thievery ireespective ...
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  What is gerontocracy - people in leadership older than you and who don't belong to your generation? Pleeeeeeeeeeze Mahama is proving to be a clueless and useless leader. Ghanaians are thieves and support thievery ireespective of age and gender. Unless all of us make conscious efforts to change coruption, greed, graft. etc. using age as measurement would remain a fruitless exercise!

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• CITIZEN ONE 12 years ago

  I agree with the authors assessment of our very dysfunctional society, but I also agree that your cocktail of social misfits in our Ghana society is superfluous. The rich are mean, selfish and want to get richer at all cost. ...
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  I agree with the authors assessment of our very dysfunctional society, but I also agree that your cocktail of social misfits in our Ghana society is superfluous. The rich are mean, selfish and want to get richer at all cost. The poor are so ignorant, stupid, untamed, wretched and stinky. Both are equally corrupt, dishonest and cheats. Both belong to hell. Ghana is probably the gate way to HELL!
  
  There are a few good people in the country, I being number one of course, but our battle for this Nation can not be won, if we don't battle the poor majority. They are wicked and extremely envious of achievers and hardworking middle class citizens. Just spend time and study the attitudes of these lazy street hawkers and you will know what I mean. Just scrutinize the look on the face of a perpetual tro-tro passenger, and you can extract the hatred from those sweaty red eye face. Who to blame? God and the Devil himself, because they both live within us, and on this dark side of the earth, one outshines the other. Your guess is as good as mine as to who rules Ghana!

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• Kojo T 12 years ago

  Osei Poku I like you. But just get the song titled " ever generation blames the one before" Trust we were the same

  Osei Poku I like you. But just get the song titled " ever generation blames the one before" Trust we were the same

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• MOZATO 12 years ago

  Baby pig one day don ask hin dad why he get big mouth. In his reply, father pig don peep hin pekin so tee wey e tell am say e dey grow come. Idiot, why do this baby writer think Okujeto Ablakwah can do better than, say, Spio ...
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  Baby pig one day don ask hin dad why he get big mouth. In his reply, father pig don peep hin pekin so tee wey e tell am say e dey grow come. Idiot, why do this baby writer think Okujeto Ablakwah can do better than, say, Spio Garbrah or Tony Aidoo?. It is about time some of you kids respect the grey hair for there a lot of wisdom in them.

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• Takyi 12 years ago

  Youthful exuberance!Emma,what do you smoke?Brains not brawn is what a leader requires

  Youthful exuberance!Emma,what do you smoke?Brains not brawn is what a leader requires

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• Mallam Kankane 12 years ago

  I share your sentiments but it is not the youth exuberance that modern day employers require. I would agree with you if employers were recruiting to fill vacancies in the boxing ring. Employers need commitment and experience ...
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  I share your sentiments but it is not the youth exuberance that modern day employers require. I would agree with you if employers were recruiting to fill vacancies in the boxing ring. Employers need commitment and experience which the modern day graduate lacks.There are a lot of our youth who are complete misfits when it comes to applying their book knowledge.Our educational system needs restructuring to make our youth employable.

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• Asiwome 12 years ago

  Your article is prof the young are restless. Channel your energy learning what you can from the aged before they die.

  Your article is prof the young are restless. Channel your energy learning what you can from the aged before they die.

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• Kofi 12 years ago

  Osei-Poku, you are a fool. The student leaders who find themselves in government turn out to be the most corrupt. Rawlings thought the same 35 years ago. I believe he has changed his mind now that he is a matured man. What is ...
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  Osei-Poku, you are a fool. The student leaders who find themselves in government turn out to be the most corrupt. Rawlings thought the same 35 years ago. I believe he has changed his mind now that he is a matured man. What is killing us is the habit of every young man to be rich overnight.

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• DODOWA 12 years ago

  I have never seen a more flawed hypothesis than this apocryphal put up by Osei-Poku. It is a cliché to assume that youth and exuberance alone could transform the fortunes of government. Cast your mind back to those who ruled ...
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  I have never seen a more flawed hypothesis than this apocryphal put up by Osei-Poku. It is a cliché to assume that youth and exuberance alone could transform the fortunes of government. Cast your mind back to those who ruled during the Rawlings era and one will immediately see the immense naiveté that shrouds Mr. Osei-Poku’s argument. That bunch of yahoos had no restraints. They cowed everyone into submission with guns but what did we see? Massive corruption which precipitated into abject failure. I am sure the writer has heard of Bill Clinton’s first term as the governor of Arkansas. Watching Rawlings and his cohort’s insatiable love for power tells us how dangerous it is to let a young fella taste power and retire young.

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• Y Joeman 12 years ago

  A good one there. It is a common practice in Ghana to see most sensitve and delicate positions put at the disposal of a very big named individual without due deligence. Whether the big name the person carries has anything to ...
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  A good one there. It is a common practice in Ghana to see most sensitve and delicate positions put at the disposal of a very big named individual without due deligence. Whether the big name the person carries has anything to do with productivity or not is indeed secondary in Ghana now. The Practice in GES now is that , when you are about to die(go on retirement) then you are given a Secondary School to Head, despite good policies in place to ensure that people with higher qualification and experience head SHS in Ghana. Ghanaians truly do not need progress but positions.

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