Both leadership and vision. Right now we are being ruled by visionless leadership and that is why our problems keep mounting until the right leader with vision emerges.
Both leadership and vision. Right now we are being ruled by visionless leadership and that is why our problems keep mounting until the right leader with vision emerges.
Cindy 10 years ago
Our leaders are indiscipline, lawless, visionless, unproductive suckers with the display of irresponsibility in governance.
Our leaders are indiscipline, lawless, visionless, unproductive suckers with the display of irresponsibility in governance.
LONTO-BOY 10 years ago
Dr Ohemeng, I may say Vision is a subset of Leadership skills. Ghana is failing because we lack competent, honest, dynamic, selfless, committed and visionary leadership. We lack transformational leadership who will take bold ... read full comment
Dr Ohemeng, I may say Vision is a subset of Leadership skills. Ghana is failing because we lack competent, honest, dynamic, selfless, committed and visionary leadership. We lack transformational leadership who will take bold decisions in difficult times for the strategic benefit of the future generations. That is visionary.
Kojo T 10 years ago
The model of voting every 4 years is wrong as we are always in a campaign mode. Ask the USA and its commatose system we are trying to emulate. We need a " benevolent dictator". Sur we need a visionary leader . But what blind ... read full comment
The model of voting every 4 years is wrong as we are always in a campaign mode. Ask the USA and its commatose system we are trying to emulate. We need a " benevolent dictator". Sur we need a visionary leader . But what blind person does not see we need urgently DEVELOPMENT. What we need are to spell out what and how. But when you have parties spending 8 months in court challenging eletion results , how does the winning party get to work? Then what alternatives do these parties have to SOLVE problems ? Do we need to follow the West blindly without comparing the dynamics of their societies with ours . Look every one knows Accra is now Ghana and it is FILTHY. Do you need a vision to keep our surroundings clean. Letus go back to basics
Yaw Ohemeng 10 years ago
The problem we have is to blame and blame. It's as if we cannot persuade and convert people. Tell me what is on the table now that you are asking people to rally to?
I would have sympathised with your claim of the opposit ... read full comment
The problem we have is to blame and blame. It's as if we cannot persuade and convert people. Tell me what is on the table now that you are asking people to rally to?
I would have sympathised with your claim of the opposition thwarting everything if there is something on the table that they are thwarting.
All we hear is our government is going to do this or that and they never materialise. Where they do we have no idea what grand scheme these feed into.
You are here doing the same thing. Accra is filthy. All we need is to go back to basics. Who has to make these things happen? Who needs to lead the way for these things to happen? Are we not paying people to think, inspire and lead to bring about these changes?
I can say for sure that if one has vision, one can turn round even the most hardened of critics. You have to unceasingly preach like the pastors do to convert people. An example was Bill Clinton. He had serious moral flaws in his personal life but not when it came to his job brief as president. If he were to be one lousy President, he would surely have been impeached over the Lewinsky scandal. It was his performance in the employ of the people that saved him.
Let the government of the day decide to paint a vision; let it show clearly where we are going as a country; let it fight corruption; let it prosecute all those who are feeding fat on state resources; let it appoint competent individuals to head our institutions; let it allow these institutions to work and we shall see where Ghana can be. It would mean we do not have to inflate contracts which feeds into prices; it would mean that salary demands can be realistic; it will mean people can do business and do not have to factor in bribes and officially-sanctioned 'snail' pacing. That would translate into reduction of cost of doing business and increased profitability and prosperity and higher revenues for the state.
Do not let us situate everything in politics. We have serious problems and the time to stop doing things the usual way must be now. It does not matter which party leads this change so far as they are serious to bring in the changes. We fail to heed the call and reality shall impose it on us!
Kojo T 10 years ago
You want to say you do not know you should be in a clean environment? Even you can start. We have all these groups like AFAG, and why can they not start a clean up campaign. The moment government starts then NPP wrecks it. So ... read full comment
You want to say you do not know you should be in a clean environment? Even you can start. We have all these groups like AFAG, and why can they not start a clean up campaign. The moment government starts then NPP wrecks it. So the the peoples movement take over
you thought you've got NPP FOLKS 10 years ago
ndc
ndc
BOY KOFI 10 years ago
Ghana is not the only country in Africa and we must thank God to be in the pole position in West Africa.I would like DR Yaw Ohemeng to tell me which country in the West Africa is doing better than Ghana?Please remember,Rome w ... read full comment
Ghana is not the only country in Africa and we must thank God to be in the pole position in West Africa.I would like DR Yaw Ohemeng to tell me which country in the West Africa is doing better than Ghana?Please remember,Rome was not built in a day so you can also contribute positively to the Nation building instead of criticising NEGATIVELY because your party did not win the last élections.You wish so much that Ghana becomes ungovernable,the actual govt does not succeed.What a shameful instigation?Thank you.
Kofi 10 years ago
Boye Kofi, you are the personification of mediocrity. Should we celebrate because we are the less confused among a bunch of confused states? It's thinking like yours that is keeping us from developing. Why didn't you compare ... read full comment
Boye Kofi, you are the personification of mediocrity. Should we celebrate because we are the less confused among a bunch of confused states? It's thinking like yours that is keeping us from developing. Why didn't you compare us with countries like South Korea and Singapore who we were at par with at independence? If Rome was not built in a day, was it built in 1000 years? If the US followed your Rome-was-not-built-in-a-day nonsense, where would it be today? Man, it is time your got serious for our Ghana is fast becoming a failed state!
Agyeman. 10 years ago
Well PUT and great example about USA.Even worse is that we got independence 6yrs ahead of Singapore and 14yrs ahead of UAE but now we're ages behind them.Its not how much time you've got but its WHAT you do with your time tha ... read full comment
Well PUT and great example about USA.Even worse is that we got independence 6yrs ahead of Singapore and 14yrs ahead of UAE but now we're ages behind them.Its not how much time you've got but its WHAT you do with your time that matters.The rich and the poor all get 24hrs out of a day but some folks achieve more in a day than some lazy folks do in a week.So his idea of Rome turns n its head and sounds illadvised for a Ghana that is already behind.Such Ghanaians as Boye Kofi are the folks who keep us behind.
BOY KOFI 10 years ago
Can you tell me who many coup d'état that South Korea,Singapore and United States have experienced just after independence?You keep singing Ghana is a failed state because your party did not win elections.What a poor soul an ... read full comment
Can you tell me who many coup d'état that South Korea,Singapore and United States have experienced just after independence?You keep singing Ghana is a failed state because your party did not win elections.What a poor soul and myopic partisan.Ghana is not a failed state because we are moving forward and need a Nation building mentality like the countries you have mentioned.If you want Ghana to fail because your tribesmen in not in power then sorry you are the failed lazy creature.We must help our country to succeed but not see only the bad side of the rough road.Think objectively before you start crying like a baby.What have you done in your life to help Ghana before you keep spreading rubbish that Ghana is a failed state because you are also a failure.Please contribute positively to the building of a great nation and stop this silly song.
Titugri 10 years ago
Boy Kofi, there is nothing wrong with honestly criticizing oneself, family or country because honest criticism is very important for human development. Much of what Dr. Yaw has said is true about Ghana and many countries in A ... read full comment
Boy Kofi, there is nothing wrong with honestly criticizing oneself, family or country because honest criticism is very important for human development. Much of what Dr. Yaw has said is true about Ghana and many countries in Africa and other parts of the world.
You asked how many coup d'etats South Korea, Singapore and United States experienced. Well if those countries used sound judgement by not engaging in reckless adventures and Ghanaians made bad decisions by engaging and encouraging coup d'etats whose fault is it? I think the writer is right in everything that he has said and I applaud him.
BOY KOFI 10 years ago
You see,when you have people who see only the bad side of everything whilst they don't even try to contribute any positive thinking.This is not constructive criticism at all.Then you have others with postive thinking trying t ... read full comment
You see,when you have people who see only the bad side of everything whilst they don't even try to contribute any positive thinking.This is not constructive criticism at all.Then you have others with postive thinking trying to encourage and mobilise themselves to build the Nation.This is the kind of philosophy we need now but not sit back and say Ghana is a failed state.Only a failure will say this.Thank you.
Kojo T 10 years ago
Even Jake said it. Because NDC is in power NPP is doing everything to prevent them from succeeding. Do we need a vision and leadership for that and then do we need a vision for the tribalists who talk everything down
Even Jake said it. Because NDC is in power NPP is doing everything to prevent them from succeeding. Do we need a vision and leadership for that and then do we need a vision for the tribalists who talk everything down
Titugri 10 years ago
I did not see anywhere in the article that said Ghana is a failed state. We all know that with all the human and natural resources that has, compared to what we have been able to do with that we will be considered as under-pe ... read full comment
I did not see anywhere in the article that said Ghana is a failed state. We all know that with all the human and natural resources that has, compared to what we have been able to do with that we will be considered as under-performing regardless of if one is a positive thinker or otherwise.
Kwame Nkrumah only took ten years to build Tema harbour and the city itself, the motorway, Akosombo, all the state hotels and industries that Rawlings sold, Univeristy of Science and Tech, University of Education in Winneba and so many primary and secondary schools that I cannot even count. That is what REAL leadership can do in such a short time.
All the other so-called leaders who came after Kwame Nkrumah have not even collectively done half of what Nkrumah did. Isn't that a problem of leadership and vision?
BOY KOFI 10 years ago
I was responding to Kofi who made that stupid statement.Ask yourself if Nkrumah is not said to be an autocrat,a megalomaniac and communist?I can tell you that our problem is not about leadership or vision but psychological.We ... read full comment
I was responding to Kofi who made that stupid statement.Ask yourself if Nkrumah is not said to be an autocrat,a megalomaniac and communist?I can tell you that our problem is not about leadership or vision but psychological.We must first know the difference between individual and collective responsibilities.Then follow the principles of building a strong Nation but not strong tribes.The vision for building a strong nation is very common but it seems we are fighting each other instead of focusing on the nation building.Democracy is here,now tell me how do we work together?Thank you.
Goldie 10 years ago
Ignore this boy Kofi, he's one of the MP's. Who in their right mind would defend corrupt thieves called politicians?
Ignore this boy Kofi, he's one of the MP's. Who in their right mind would defend corrupt thieves called politicians?
BOY KOFI 10 years ago
We should not allow people to go about saying Ghana is a failed state.All those spreading this false impression have mental and physical problems.A sound mind in a sound body will always be optimistic and happy but a pessimis ... read full comment
We should not allow people to go about saying Ghana is a failed state.All those spreading this false impression have mental and physical problems.A sound mind in a sound body will always be optimistic and happy but a pessimist suffers and dies prematurely.So folks be happy and work hard to build a better Nation for the generation yet unborn.Thank you.
Agyeman. 10 years ago
Our leaders have sight but no vision.Thats worse than being totally blind.
Our leaders have sight but no vision.Thats worse than being totally blind.
abele 10 years ago
check out the 25 wasted years the pndc/ndc visionless party[the konongo kaya party] has been in power and compare it with the 8 years of Kuffours administration and you will surely find the answer.
check out the 25 wasted years the pndc/ndc visionless party[the konongo kaya party] has been in power and compare it with the 8 years of Kuffours administration and you will surely find the answer.
Dixon 10 years ago
BOTH! Good Leadership sees and prioritize - Our leaders don't give serious attention to the Nation's priorities, even if they know it! But selfishness, greediness and wickedness of Ghanaian leaders to the very people who vot ... read full comment
BOTH! Good Leadership sees and prioritize - Our leaders don't give serious attention to the Nation's priorities, even if they know it! But selfishness, greediness and wickedness of Ghanaian leaders to the very people who voted them into power - totally neglected. No visionary leadership! "Where there is no vision the people perish". Living dead - living in filth - take a tour of Accra its capital. Ply the roads to the suburbs, cities, towns, villages! Visit our hospitals! Oh Ghana - our mother-land! God will hold our leaders responsible and accountable very soon for playing politics with precious lifes of all suffering and neglected Ghanaians! Their cry has reached unto God and God is stepping in to deliver His children!
Nii Ashitey 10 years ago
Yaw this article sounds good.If I was marking a paper on that subject I will give it a very high mark.The circumstances that create visionary leaders are like the evolutionary theory of chance combination of the right ingredi ... read full comment
Yaw this article sounds good.If I was marking a paper on that subject I will give it a very high mark.The circumstances that create visionary leaders are like the evolutionary theory of chance combination of the right ingredients at the right time.For the circumstances to fall in place we would need a seismic shift in attitude and perception.We will need to redefine our politic and to subsume our political interest for the greater good.That will mean looking at politics as a people rather than a battle of ideologies.
I don't think Africa has that luxury of time especially because of the forces working against its success and progress to experiment on what foreign values and culture see as the standard of one size fit all philosophy and cultural democracy.An African Visionary must be able to tow an independent identity different from that imposed by colonialism to succeed with its vision and goal.
One way of doing this is to focus the national attention on an objective or goal hence the need for youth leadership training and the inculcation of the spirit of nationalism where the youth will be imbued with goals that will require a visionary leader to achieve since it is from the youth that the charismatic leadership will come from.
We had one in Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah who was an extraordinary rare Ghanian leader.He had both leadership and visionary qualities but in leadership, good intentions are not enough you must have these rare qualities to succeed and he had enough of them.More importantly he emerged when the circumstances was just right for such leadership.
They say the visionary leader, first of all, must have a very clear, encompassing and far-reaching vision in regard to the cause or organization involved. This vision includes ideas and goals which remain constant no matter how long it takes to realize them and regardless of the difficulties which the leader encounters. Furthermore, the leader never allows any of the means or actions along the way to violate or invalidate this vision and its constituent values.This is the picture of Nkrumah and this the challenge for the youth of Ghana.
Kofi 10 years ago
I think we lack both.
I think we lack both.
Shamu 10 years ago
First of all, my question to your question is that, do we ask good question out of love and patriotism of our belove country or just for the sake of our own interest to get there and start going for ourselves? Because is eass ... read full comment
First of all, my question to your question is that, do we ask good question out of love and patriotism of our belove country or just for the sake of our own interest to get there and start going for ourselves? Because is eassy to make mention of good leadership and vision, one thing is that, does it remain there or going forward.
However, when we talk of good leadership and vision, we need to make mention of good and wickedness too. In Ghana today there is no good person to even come out with a good leadership and visionary out of such wicked people. One can easily challenge that there are good people. My question is that, where are they? Today in Ghana, people criticize for the sake of their own interest for the good of the country.
I remember when the great Rawlings was in power, there was no type of oppose that this man did not face during his time. But it was the same opposition who were given power after the term of Rawlings in power. What really happen? With all improvement that Rawlings made and put Ghana into global map, the opposition of that time who now govern the country turned the nation as if is their own. corrupt after corrupt until they set a new corruption record in the history of Ghana, as the most corrupt leader the country has ever got. Actually, what was built through the suffering of Ghanaians for the past twenty years as at that time turned to be waste within just eight years in power. Now, the opposition of that time become sudden billioniers or whatever by enriching themselves with the coffers of Ghana or individual poor Ghanaians. Today N D C who suppose to be the savior of Ghana, also join in the corruption of the country just for themselves. Now who is good? No body can tell me that, this party is more corrupt than the other, so the less corrupt party in better. Which I considered to be a foolish statement. And that is what Ghanaians are saying. In case, we shall all conclude that, there is no good party in Ghana or no good person in Ghana.
BRO DAN- TRC 10 years ago
REPUTABLE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DISTINGUISHED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, BLESSED AND INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, BEHOLD, IT IS RECORDED THAT- 'EVEN NOW IS NO -NATION- THE GREATEST NATION BUT IMAGI-NATION'. FOR WITHOUT -IMAGI ... read full comment
REPUTABLE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DISTINGUISHED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, BLESSED AND INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, BEHOLD, IT IS RECORDED THAT- 'EVEN NOW IS NO -NATION- THE GREATEST NATION BUT IMAGI-NATION'. FOR WITHOUT -IMAGINATION- THERE IS NO -NATION- BUT AN IMAGE.AN IMAGE OF POVERTY, DISEASE, MASS UNEMPLOYEMEN, HOMELESSNESS, DEBT AND THE INABILITY TO PAY THE DEBT! WE MAY CALL THE LATTER, DEBT DEFALUT WHICH IS SCARY ENOUGH TO THREATENS NATIONS!! PULSE. NOW, LET MY PEOPLE THINK.
IT IS FOR THESE REASONS THAT I PUT GHANA, AFRICA AND THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD IN REMENBRANCE TO HOLD ON TO -THE VISION- AGAINST THIS GLOBAL MAN-MADE "JACOB'S TROUBLE". "FOR LACK OF -KNOWLEDGE- 'VISION' MY PEOPLE PERISH"; IT IS WRITTEN. AND IF WE KNOW THAT -"THE VISION" IS YET FOR AN APPOINTED TIME, BUT AT THE END IT SHALL -SPEAK- AND NOT LIE: ....." WHY WILL WE NOT WRITE IT DOWN AND MAKE IT PLAIN THAT ALL WHO READ MAY RUN AGAINST EVERY ODD OF THE MAN-MADE "JACOB'S TROUBLE". SELAH.
YEA, GHANA, LACK OF LEADERSHIP? NO!!! A PEOPLE OF "A WILLING MIND AND A PERFECT HEART". IS ALL THAT -MOSES- NEEDED WITH HIM ON THE MOUNT AS "JOSHUA" DISCONFITED THE AMALEKITES. IF ANY NATION OR PEOPLE KNOW THIS, WHAT IS MAN-MADE "JACOB'S TROUBLE" TO THEM KNOWING THAT IT IS WRITTEN; "OCCUPY TILL I COME". PULSE. NOW, LET MY PEOPLE THINK. FOR "IT IS FINISHED" THEREFORE, "OCCUPY TILL I COME". SELAH.
TOGETHER, WE CAN! WITH GOD, WE CAN!! GOD BLESS AFRICA TO "BE STRONG AND BE OF GOOD COURAGE" THAT BY -THE GOOD LEADERSHIP- WE HOLD ON TO -THE VISION. GOD BLESS THE LEADERS OF YOUR NATION WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WITHOUT "WE THE PEOPLE" THEY CANNOT. GOD BLESS THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WITH -A VISION- TO ESTEEM THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND AND THOSE OF OTHER NATIONS OF THE WORLD WITH THE DIGNITY DUE ALL MEN. AND, GOD BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.
NOTE
MUCH THANKS TO GHANAWEB FOR THE SPACE. AND TO AB ZION RADION FOR THE LORD'S SONGS.
Kwami - US 10 years ago
Readers should read the first few pages of "Culture Matters" by Professor Huntington; and "The Clash of Civilization and The Remaking of the World" by the Same author. You will find answers to Africa's (not only Ghana) woes a ... read full comment
Readers should read the first few pages of "Culture Matters" by Professor Huntington; and "The Clash of Civilization and The Remaking of the World" by the Same author. You will find answers to Africa's (not only Ghana) woes and wounds. Weep Not Africans.Those who can read in French can also look for this book: "L'Afrique Est Mal Partie". I close my case.
George 10 years ago
We lack both. Mahama is neither a leader nor a visionary. But crazy people voted for him so here is where he has brought us.
We lack both. Mahama is neither a leader nor a visionary. But crazy people voted for him so here is where he has brought us.
Benash 10 years ago
Thank you so much Dr. Ohemeng for such a wonderful masterpiece. You raised questions and answered them intoto. You made all the suggestions and solutions to our problems and i applaud you for that.
You are one of those leade ... read full comment
Thank you so much Dr. Ohemeng for such a wonderful masterpiece. You raised questions and answered them intoto. You made all the suggestions and solutions to our problems and i applaud you for that.
You are one of those leaders you spelt out in your article and I would like to encourage you to go into poiltics as an INDEPENDENT.
Your article can be used as a bluprint to solve our leadership problem. Your article is excellent and I will recommend it for all of our tertiary instituitions. I would suggest that everyone in any of our tertiary instituition is taken through such a lesson. May be we might get something out of that.
seidu 10 years ago
Leadership and vision goes hand in hand. First you have to be a good leader to have a vision and have a vision to be a good leader. Ghana lacks visionary leaders period. Dr. Busia was an opportunist,so was JJ Rawlings, Kuffou ... read full comment
Leadership and vision goes hand in hand. First you have to be a good leader to have a vision and have a vision to be a good leader. Ghana lacks visionary leaders period. Dr. Busia was an opportunist,so was JJ Rawlings, Kuffour was greedy though a humane leader, as for Mahama and Dr Liman lost in the wilderness only Dr Nkrumah did showed leadership with vision. I think if Akuffo-Addo is given the chance he may replicate Dr. Nkrumah
Kobena 10 years ago
Yaw,
This is a very good article which hits the nail right on its head. We have the right institutions, which, with a bit of tweaking, can be made to work for the vast majority of the people, but our elected officials have ... read full comment
Yaw,
This is a very good article which hits the nail right on its head. We have the right institutions, which, with a bit of tweaking, can be made to work for the vast majority of the people, but our elected officials have their hands tied up even before they take office, and therefore look on helplessly as the power brokers pull the strings.
Kwame Nkrumah had the vision to build a proud African showcase, with a very sound beginning, but circumstances both internal and external, soon derailed that vision. First, he could not bring himself to utilise ALL the available human resources at his disposal. With a population of just 6.5 million at independence, Arthur Lewis’s “Import Substitution Programme” became a non-starter, as the French encouraged their former colonies to establish all the industries that had been established in Ghana, so they wouldn't buy anything from Ghana.
Busia had a vision of “Rural Development”, to stem the currently unsustainable urbanisation that is killing Accra, and to some extent Kumasi and Takoradi, and sure to stifle the development of every major town in Ghana. He had the confidence to appoint and fire his appointees, and therefore utilised the best available resources because he virtually financed the beginnings of the Progress Party with money he brought along from the UK, some claim part of it was money he had collected from charities on behalf of the families of detainees of the infamous PDA.
Since then, our elected leaders have been mere crises managers! Akyeampong’s initial “Yenntua” rhetoric forced him into a corner, until he had to swallow humble pie. He had needed several officers, most of whom were smarter than himself, to execute his coup, so he had to satisfy that group in all appointments. Later, he watched on helplessly as they robbed the nation senseless.
Limann was a prisoner of the powerful CPP cabal from day 1. He was just a sitting duck for coups!
As Matthew Adabugah has amply demonstrated, both June 4 and December 31st were orchestrated by others. Jerry Rawlings needed Kojo Tsikata to help him hound his benefactors into exile before he could execute his tribal agenda. So there was not much of a vision, except to try and perpetuate himself, which he botched badly, and therefore had to go after 2000.
Kufuor had to sell the family loom, to win Election 2000, and was therefore beholden to friends and family, as shown clearly in his cabinet, board and ambassadorial appointments. It was the same with Uncle Atta, ala ‘Swedru Declaration’. As it is increasingly becoming evident, much of the huge overspend of Election 2012 was money that was siphoned through cronies, for election campaign. That is why GYEEDA, Woyome, Insophoton and others are not going to come to much, because Mahama cannot disturb the hornet’s nest without getting hurt himself.
As you rightly pointed out, we all know what Ghana’s problems are. We even have ideas as to how to begin to tackle them. What we need is a leader who is not tainted by the system; someone who is confident enough in himself to look the power brokers in the eye and tell them to get lost. That means state financing of presidential elections, with a cap on how much each candidate can spend, and a way to weed out the frivolous candidates like the idiot who coughed all night at the presidential debates, trying to prevent Nana Akufo-Addo from putting his message across. Your article is a good beginning for brainstorming on the future of Ghana
Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago
There was a time not that long ago, in Ghana when stealing and or being labeled a thief brought shame to people and family; it’s no more. In those wonder years, our mothers found a way to ask their husbands, boyfriends and ... read full comment
There was a time not that long ago, in Ghana when stealing and or being labeled a thief brought shame to people and family; it’s no more. In those wonder years, our mothers found a way to ask their husbands, boyfriends and baby's daddy questions about a seeming wealth without change in job opportunities. Those were the times when women shamed thieving men. During Acheampong’s time and since, elementary school girls to university girls are more so proud with the number of men and boys they date simultaneously since that has become a means of measuring how savvy or rich women become each weekend. Politicians to judges on our benches have become thieves and yet enact laws and or enforce laws on Ghana's poor while they live without shame or remorse being abject thieves themselves.
In this society, being principled and or moral is not character traits that are needed to be a political or national leader. If Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey can own land that was once owned by the national government without a public legal sale notice and the judges on Ghana's appeals and Supreme Court thinks it is all legal where then do people go for moral and principled existence? Our leaders of latter days are a reflection on a society that is worse than the peoples of Sodom and Gomorra of Biblical times. Has anyone been ashamed of stealing? Ask Kufour, his son, J.J. Rawlings and his wife and all the ministers in between or the nickel and dime political party executives where they get their money and or how they earn a living. You may just learn that Ghana is not for the honest and upright citizen but for the sorry excuse for human beings. Woyome did not occur in a vacuum neither did GYEEDA/NYEP boondoggle and or any of the judgment debt happen in a vacuum.
dunaa 10 years ago
Very well said, Dr. Ohemeng.
Very well said, Dr. Ohemeng.
SANTROFI 10 years ago
ESTABLISHING ALL THOSE USELESS TOOTHLESS COMMISSIONS LIKE THE JUDGEMENT DEBTS COMMISSION AND THOSE THAT EXISTED DURING KUFUOR'S CORRUPT TERM WERE/ARE ALL A COMPLETE FARSE.
WHO DO GHANA'S SUCCESSIVE DOWNRIGHT CORRUPT LEADER ... read full comment
ESTABLISHING ALL THOSE USELESS TOOTHLESS COMMISSIONS LIKE THE JUDGEMENT DEBTS COMMISSION AND THOSE THAT EXISTED DURING KUFUOR'S CORRUPT TERM WERE/ARE ALL A COMPLETE FARSE.
WHO DO GHANA'S SUCCESSIVE DOWNRIGHT CORRUPT LEADERSHIP THINK THEY ARE FOOLING BY ESTABLISHING THOSE USELESS "ANTI-CORRUPTION" COMMISSIONS OF ENQUIRY?
GHANA'S "LEADERS" ARE FOOLING THEMSELVES AND THEIR GOD, FOR GOODNESS SAKE!
NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT, AND THAT'S WHAT GHANA'S SUCCESSIVE LOOTING LEADERSHIP MUST REMEMBER!
ATTA-MILLS DIED LIKE A BABOON, AND THAT WAS HIS NEMESIS FOR THINKING HE COULD FOOL GHANAIANS AND GET AWAY WITH IT!!
NEMESIS WILL CATCH UP WITH ALL OF GHANA'S WICKED CORRUPT LEADERS, PAST AND PRESENT, ONE BY ONE, LIKE IT DID WITH ATTA-MILLS AND ALIEU MAHAMA.
THESE TWO GOONS DIED PREMATURELY AND PAINFULLY LIKE RATS, AND THAT WAS NEMESIS IN ACTION!!
FOR EVERY PESEWA THAT GHANA'S LEADERS LOOT FROM THE NATION'S POOR, THEY SHOULD REMEMBER ONE SIMPLE NATURAL PHYSICAL LAW:
"TO EVERY ACTION, THERE CERTAINLY IS AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION".
THE LAW OF KARMA WILL CATCH UP WITH THEM ALL, ONE BY ONE!!!
NANA EGYIR 10 years ago
My dear Dr. Yaw Ohemeng, why am I particularly as detailed candidly in the 9th paragraph? This article is a powerful awakening to all dedicated, patriotic and agreeing with your in-depth article, because everything you said ... read full comment
My dear Dr. Yaw Ohemeng, why am I particularly as detailed candidly in the 9th paragraph? This article is a powerful awakening to all dedicated, patriotic and agreeing with your in-depth article, because everything you said is emphatically the truth sincere Ghanaians all over the world. Indeed we have men and women endowed with such divine gifts but all we need is to pray fervently to God Almighty for the release of such purposeful individuals. With God, all things are possible. Christians of many denominations, such as Baptists and Catholics, as well as Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews must dedicate a national day for fasting and meditation of prayers to our Almighty. Thank you for such awakening.
Both leadership and vision. Right now we are being ruled by visionless leadership and that is why our problems keep mounting until the right leader with vision emerges.
Our leaders are indiscipline, lawless, visionless, unproductive suckers with the display of irresponsibility in governance.
Dr Ohemeng, I may say Vision is a subset of Leadership skills. Ghana is failing because we lack competent, honest, dynamic, selfless, committed and visionary leadership. We lack transformational leadership who will take bold ...
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The model of voting every 4 years is wrong as we are always in a campaign mode. Ask the USA and its commatose system we are trying to emulate. We need a " benevolent dictator". Sur we need a visionary leader . But what blind ...
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The problem we have is to blame and blame. It's as if we cannot persuade and convert people. Tell me what is on the table now that you are asking people to rally to?
I would have sympathised with your claim of the opposit ...
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You want to say you do not know you should be in a clean environment? Even you can start. We have all these groups like AFAG, and why can they not start a clean up campaign. The moment government starts then NPP wrecks it. So ...
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Ghana is not the only country in Africa and we must thank God to be in the pole position in West Africa.I would like DR Yaw Ohemeng to tell me which country in the West Africa is doing better than Ghana?Please remember,Rome w ...
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Boye Kofi, you are the personification of mediocrity. Should we celebrate because we are the less confused among a bunch of confused states? It's thinking like yours that is keeping us from developing. Why didn't you compare ...
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Well PUT and great example about USA.Even worse is that we got independence 6yrs ahead of Singapore and 14yrs ahead of UAE but now we're ages behind them.Its not how much time you've got but its WHAT you do with your time tha ...
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Can you tell me who many coup d'état that South Korea,Singapore and United States have experienced just after independence?You keep singing Ghana is a failed state because your party did not win elections.What a poor soul an ...
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Boy Kofi, there is nothing wrong with honestly criticizing oneself, family or country because honest criticism is very important for human development. Much of what Dr. Yaw has said is true about Ghana and many countries in A ...
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You see,when you have people who see only the bad side of everything whilst they don't even try to contribute any positive thinking.This is not constructive criticism at all.Then you have others with postive thinking trying t ...
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Even Jake said it. Because NDC is in power NPP is doing everything to prevent them from succeeding. Do we need a vision and leadership for that and then do we need a vision for the tribalists who talk everything down
I did not see anywhere in the article that said Ghana is a failed state. We all know that with all the human and natural resources that has, compared to what we have been able to do with that we will be considered as under-pe ...
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I was responding to Kofi who made that stupid statement.Ask yourself if Nkrumah is not said to be an autocrat,a megalomaniac and communist?I can tell you that our problem is not about leadership or vision but psychological.We ...
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Ignore this boy Kofi, he's one of the MP's. Who in their right mind would defend corrupt thieves called politicians?
We should not allow people to go about saying Ghana is a failed state.All those spreading this false impression have mental and physical problems.A sound mind in a sound body will always be optimistic and happy but a pessimis ...
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Our leaders have sight but no vision.Thats worse than being totally blind.
check out the 25 wasted years the pndc/ndc visionless party[the konongo kaya party] has been in power and compare it with the 8 years of Kuffours administration and you will surely find the answer.
BOTH! Good Leadership sees and prioritize - Our leaders don't give serious attention to the Nation's priorities, even if they know it! But selfishness, greediness and wickedness of Ghanaian leaders to the very people who vot ...
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Yaw this article sounds good.If I was marking a paper on that subject I will give it a very high mark.The circumstances that create visionary leaders are like the evolutionary theory of chance combination of the right ingredi ...
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I think we lack both.
First of all, my question to your question is that, do we ask good question out of love and patriotism of our belove country or just for the sake of our own interest to get there and start going for ourselves? Because is eass ...
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REPUTABLE PEOPLE OF AFRICA, DISTINGUISHED ONES OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD, BLESSED AND INNOCENT PEOPLE OF GHANA, BEHOLD, IT IS RECORDED THAT- 'EVEN NOW IS NO -NATION- THE GREATEST NATION BUT IMAGI-NATION'. FOR WITHOUT -IMAGI ...
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Readers should read the first few pages of "Culture Matters" by Professor Huntington; and "The Clash of Civilization and The Remaking of the World" by the Same author. You will find answers to Africa's (not only Ghana) woes a ...
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We lack both. Mahama is neither a leader nor a visionary. But crazy people voted for him so here is where he has brought us.
Thank you so much Dr. Ohemeng for such a wonderful masterpiece. You raised questions and answered them intoto. You made all the suggestions and solutions to our problems and i applaud you for that.
You are one of those leade ...
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Leadership and vision goes hand in hand. First you have to be a good leader to have a vision and have a vision to be a good leader. Ghana lacks visionary leaders period. Dr. Busia was an opportunist,so was JJ Rawlings, Kuffou ...
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Yaw,
This is a very good article which hits the nail right on its head. We have the right institutions, which, with a bit of tweaking, can be made to work for the vast majority of the people, but our elected officials have ...
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There was a time not that long ago, in Ghana when stealing and or being labeled a thief brought shame to people and family; it’s no more. In those wonder years, our mothers found a way to ask their husbands, boyfriends and ...
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Very well said, Dr. Ohemeng.
ESTABLISHING ALL THOSE USELESS TOOTHLESS COMMISSIONS LIKE THE JUDGEMENT DEBTS COMMISSION AND THOSE THAT EXISTED DURING KUFUOR'S CORRUPT TERM WERE/ARE ALL A COMPLETE FARSE.
WHO DO GHANA'S SUCCESSIVE DOWNRIGHT CORRUPT LEADER ...
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My dear Dr. Yaw Ohemeng, why am I particularly as detailed candidly in the 9th paragraph? This article is a powerful awakening to all dedicated, patriotic and agreeing with your in-depth article, because everything you said ...
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