THESE CHILDREN ARE REALLY UPSETTING ME!

The NPP cannot convince me now, that they really had the interest of this country at the heart of their search for power. If they did, they would have shown political maturity by collaborating for national progress instead of squabbling in court for this long. In fact I dare say they could have equally proven to Ghanaians that they could make positive impact on this country whether in power or out of power. Their genuine desire to serve this country would have been better expressed that way.

The NDC has displayed gross political insecurity and childishness by not nipping this whole nonsense in the bud when they had the political will to do so. They cannot tell me now, that this whole standup comedy show has achieved any value-for-money for the resources they have been made custodians over nor can they prove that it has added any measurable, tangible value to the democracy of this country. Not the democracy of showing off their childish, competing, legal powers, but the real democracy of electing, as a government, to focus their energies on providing electricity for the citizens to be productive; of reducing child mortality at our hospitals ; of tackling our very weak border and immigration controls which is about to blow up in our faces like Chinese rice and of ensuring job creation for the many jobless graduates struggling to contribute their efforts to our country's growth - yes, that democracy.

Disappointing, sickening, disgraceful - especially for the quality of human resource we have as a country.

IF GHANA WERE A PRIVATE BUSINESS - WHAT WOULD THEY GIVE US?

Our leaders (Presidents and Parliaments) should be answering one simple question to Ghanaians:

“If this country was their personal profit-making companies, would they have employed those they have, for the various departments? Would they have made the decisions they have made to date? Would they have robbed their employees of their salaries in order to pay for their own incompetencies, the way they have robbed the Ghanaian taxpayers to pay for their inefficiencies? Would they have denied their workers electricity and water at work and still expect them to do their jobs efficiently??? Ask yourself, Do they think you are a FOOL?

Irrespective of party affiliations, each Minister of State, should answer to these 4 CORE areas before appointment:

1. Productivity – How have you evidently demonstrated it in your personal life to date? Corporate productivity is a reflection of personal productivity.

2. Innovation – Select a common problem in their sector of specialisation and ask them how they would consider solving it using non-traditional YET self-sustainable approaches.

3. Value-for-Money Mindset – present them with 1 general problem and 5 different solutions. Get them to defend why their choice of solution is the best long term value-for-money option.

4. Patriotic Values – demonstrate a conscious system you will put in place to instil in the workers under your ministry, the daily realisation that the success of Ghana as a nation equals their individual successes.

There are Ghanaians out there with BRAINS and a foward thinking WILL to see Ghana do better, so why are we allowing these greedy political wolves to short-change us?