Resignation? An alien word to the Ghanaian!

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joe,boston 11 years ago

Try telling NPP what the doctors of old man Nana Addo advised on his attempt for a "trepit" and they will lynch you.

Apart from "resignation" being foreign, Ghanaians are tongue-tied when it comes to using phrases like " ...
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Try telling NPP what the doctors of old man Nana Addo advised on his attempt for a "trepit" and they will lynch you.

Apart from "resignation" being foreign, Ghanaians are tongue-tied when it comes to using phrases like "I am sorry" or "I apologise". Do you remember Asamoah Boateng aka asabee a minister in Kuffour administration who tried to flee after NPP lost power; and who awarded a contract without bidding to his wife's company for an unneeded office decoration and sacked a top civil without reason, who was found "not guilty" on "technicality" and should bend his head in shame and hide from public, is running as a candidate for the NPP flagbearship.
Vuvuzela 11 years ago

Kwesi Appiah is always "learning lessons", according to his own words. So, as one would imagine, he hasn't finished his trial and error on the team with his ridiculous selections, policies and management.
How about a coach w ...
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Kwesi Appiah is always "learning lessons", according to his own words. So, as one would imagine, he hasn't finished his trial and error on the team with his ridiculous selections, policies and management.
How about a coach who weeps during arguments in situations he refuses to control!
We can all see he has no judgment and must be replaced.
Nana Kwaku 11 years ago

One of the reasons why Ghanaians don't resign is the ego factor. Ghanaians are too egoistic. Just watch when a driver in a powerful car is being overtaken by a "weaker" one. You see the driver of the powerful car speeding whe ...
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One of the reasons why Ghanaians don't resign is the ego factor. Ghanaians are too egoistic. Just watch when a driver in a powerful car is being overtaken by a "weaker" one. You see the driver of the powerful car speeding when he actually did not mean to. He does not understand why "this f...ing car should overtake me!" The Ghanaian will say sorry only if he/she mistakenly steps on your toe or bumps into you. We have no room for emotions. No wonder Akwasi Appiah will not resign. He does not care if it affects his children in school. Or even if his wife is insulted in town. It will surprise you the wife will even urge him on. She will rather enjoy the fame that goes with the embarrassment.

In the case of Richard Anane for instance, his wife who had no sense of shame welcomed her husband's infidelity along with the baby and her foreign rival. Any level headed lady would have walked out of the marriage! So as in Akwasi Appiah's case, Mrs. Anane was enjoying the Mrs minister tag which was awash with embarrassment.

I mentioned egoism as our main reason for not resigning. I managed to observe something that egoism has succeeded in doing. Killings by armed robbers! In some cases, you read or hear on radio that the victim in trying to pull a gun on the robbers, was shot and killed. Instead of surrendering quietly, the victims most of the time try some stupid macho tactics, which most of the time does not work, and get killed in the process. I once heard a lady lamenting "why should I say sorry to that twart! Is he my co-equal? TWEEEAAA! Enjoy your day folks!
Ebibiman 11 years ago

They are full of shit.

They are full of shit.
kofi 11 years ago

You forgot Mahama. ..allotey

You forgot Mahama. ..allotey
JA 11 years ago

Read the responses to this article and tell me what is wrong with us?

Read the responses to this article and tell me what is wrong with us?
kofi 11 years ago

very backward people...we dont want to move forward.

very backward people...we dont want to move forward.
Appletus 11 years ago

Pope Clement headed as Pontiff until he was 99 years. I wonder if you mean to say Pope Benedict. Because, he made history in the catholic church by resiging and the reason he assigned for that was ill health.

Pope Clement headed as Pontiff until he was 99 years. I wonder if you mean to say Pope Benedict. Because, he made history in the catholic church by resiging and the reason he assigned for that was ill health.
HAZOR 11 years ago

It is very sad that you fail to tell President Mahama A.K.A sanitary pads supplier to resign from the office of the presidency for his corruption saga's and non performing and insults.Mahama has fail Ghana and should resign ...
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It is very sad that you fail to tell President Mahama A.K.A sanitary pads supplier to resign from the office of the presidency for his corruption saga's and non performing and insults.Mahama has fail Ghana and should resign immediately for the sake of the country and the unborn children.
Schalke fan 11 years ago

Na wayaoooo

Na wayaoooo

love ghana 11 years ago

good one from you,more from people like you can bring a change

good one from you,more from people like you can bring a change
EZEKIEL 11 years ago

The bottomline of it all is that...WE ARE SELFISH and GREEDY!!Because our leaders don't have B***S, they cannot SACK anybody NO MATTER the performance!! You find all manner of DELEGATIONS trooping to "BEG" for the SACKED! Lit ...
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The bottomline of it all is that...WE ARE SELFISH and GREEDY!!Because our leaders don't have B***S, they cannot SACK anybody NO MATTER the performance!! You find all manner of DELEGATIONS trooping to "BEG" for the SACKED! Little morals and mostly SYCOPHANTS!!!
mensah abrampa 11 years ago

We're failing today as a nation because everything we're doing or not doing like the absence of a resignations culture is part of the plan to fail. At the workplace recurring tardiness is treated with kid gloves as if that's ...
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We're failing today as a nation because everything we're doing or not doing like the absence of a resignations culture is part of the plan to fail. At the workplace recurring tardiness is treated with kid gloves as if that's normal. We say 'no problem' when the opposite is the reality . Employees report late for work and leave early but at the end of the month they take home a full month's pay.
We are not called 'The Third World' for nothing.There are many reasons for the uncomplimentary but deserving tag . The performance bar is set so low here that any drunk can make it with eyes closed. We not only okay and pardon mediocrity , ineptitude and incompetence but we reward them with promotion and salary increase.
Why are we surprised no one is resigning or being fired from their jobs? This is the way things are done here. You might be the most qualified for a job or position but you'll never get the job because you are a ghanaian who does not belong to the ruling party and if you do you're probably not well connected. Ghana boasts of accomplished and well qualified professionals scattered all over the world. What is preventing the nation from benefitting from the competence, expertise and experience of these sons and daughters? Couldn't it have been someone else other than Okudzeto Ablakwa, Afriyie Ankrah, Yammin and all the dim-witted, low-bred and sub-marginal ministers of state and chief executives who can't even put our money where our mouth is? We can't expect a culture of resignations from an environment so rife with corruption that about 9 out of 10 public officials have skeletons in their cupboard. Who's going to hold another to account? We can't expect resignations from a system where government rather than the private sector is the major employer and every job offer is seen as a favor to be returned. We can't expect resignations in a rigged system where laziness and incompetence are rewarded instead of punished. We can't expect resignations in an environment where the requiem mass for accountability was gleefully sung the day the 1992 Fourth Republic Constitution was passed as the law of the land with all its flaws like the infamous "Indemnity Clause"for the sole benefit of Rawlings and his cronies.We are at the moment laying on the bed we prepared for ourselves . If we find it inconvenient today we have the power to fix it now.
OYIWA 11 years ago

AO! AND THEY MADE PROF. MILLS SPRINT ON THE TARMAC TO PROVE HIS FITNESS TO THE SUSPICIOUS, WATCHING GHANAIAN AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA - ALL IN A BID TO HOODWINK US.
YES AKWESI APPIAH IS INCAPABLE AND MUST RESIGN AND NOT WAIT ...
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AO! AND THEY MADE PROF. MILLS SPRINT ON THE TARMAC TO PROVE HIS FITNESS TO THE SUSPICIOUS, WATCHING GHANAIAN AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA - ALL IN A BID TO HOODWINK US.
YES AKWESI APPIAH IS INCAPABLE AND MUST RESIGN AND NOT WAIT TO BE GIVEN THE SHOVE.
Mike Gizo 11 years ago

Mbeki, part of his resignation was cos he opposed the candidacy of Jacob zuma n other comments he made that came to public.

Mbeki, part of his resignation was cos he opposed the candidacy of Jacob zuma n other comments he made that came to public.
Wilhelm Agbeli 11 years ago

Resignation is alien, because we the people are part of the problem. We tend to worship them like gods.

Sad; ain't it?

Resignation is alien, because we the people are part of the problem. We tend to worship them like gods.

Sad; ain't it?
Nicholas Osei Kyeretwie-Chicago 11 years ago

Man, Power is sweet,and the office of National Power is so romantic and enticing that,once a man gets into it especially in the third world,he usually finds it difficult and painful to be out of it.That is why Akwasi Appiah w ...
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Man, Power is sweet,and the office of National Power is so romantic and enticing that,once a man gets into it especially in the third world,he usually finds it difficult and painful to be out of it.That is why Akwasi Appiah will not resign.For lifting a whole 3 million dollars in cash to Brazil,the Finance minister would be out of job.The sports minister and GFA boss will all have resigned before leaving Brazil,but this is ghana.
Kwabena Yeboah 11 years ago

Well researched and well thought out, and well written. Very insightful. Thank you very much.

Well researched and well thought out, and well written. Very insightful. Thank you very much.
Nanasei 11 years ago

Good job, Allotey. If Ghana could get just 200 people who think like you and know the difference between right and wrong, omg!, Ghana will be a better place to live. But the problem is that, how many of these fools in power ...
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Good job, Allotey. If Ghana could get just 200 people who think like you and know the difference between right and wrong, omg!, Ghana will be a better place to live. But the problem is that, how many of these fools in power will even read your article? THEY JUST DON'T CARE!!!Ghan is just a joke!

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