March 11, 2016

Is Ghana facing leadership crises?
Masahudu Ankiilu Kunateh, Ghanadot

Accra, May 4, Ghanadot - The increasing spate of gross indiscipline in the Ghanaian society, especially on our roads, annual floods, poor state of health facilities, poor sanitation, corrupt legislatures and judiciaries, poor policing and dysfunctional institutions give a gloomy picture that Ghana has a serious leadership crises.

To this end, majority of Ghanaians are calling for the grooming of politicians and other leaders in all spheres of human endeavour in order to salvage the first African country to throw off the yolk of imperialism and to stand against the Whiteman’s aggressions.

The latest to add his voice to this chorus is the President of the Full Gospel Church International, Rt. Reverend Samuel Mensah.

According to him, politicians who are put in leadership positions to enforce 'law and order' must be groomed to enable them to perform to meet the hopes and aspirations of the people.

He called on political office holders to stop the blame game because leaders should not pass the buck.

In Ghana, most politicians, including majority of those who are in managerial positions in organizations, have become “fire fighters rather than fire preventers”.

To Rev. Mensah, it appeared Ghanaians did not know where the nation was moving and questioned how and why politicians should manage the affairs of the nation with a “fire fighting mentality”.

The reverend said sector ministers should have goals, and well-defined vision and be given targets to meet.

He cited road and transport, education, town and country planning and health sectors as areas whose administrators should be swift.

For instance in the road and transport sector, hawking on streets has become the order of the day, as traffic lights frequently break down, coupled with indiscipline on the roads.

At times, street and traffics lights can go off for many days without the appropriate authorities putting efforts to repair them.

In the education sector, the constant change of curricula and policies of education have adversely affected the country’s education. As any government can come to power and either add or subtract the number of years of the basic education as well as the senior level.

The reverend alleged that some lapses in the Ministry of Education had led to 106 students missing the just ended Basic Education Certification Examination (BECE).

To add up, flooding has become an annual affair to talk about, but nothing practical is being done about it apart from just visits to flood-prone areas by the country’s National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), an anti disaster agency with selected media personnel.

It was pathetic to see Ministers of State wasting tax-payers money to purchase fuel and fly helicopters, taking aerial view of floods, and yet nothing came out of it. This is the wasting of tax-payers money to the highest degree.

All these go to affirm that indeed Ghana is in serious leadership crises but what would the President Mills led administration do.

A cross section of Ghanaians is calling on the new government to do something about the looming global economic crisis which is staring the country at its face.

Mr. Frank Asiedu, a consultant, called on the government to engage the services of leadership consultants to take political leaders through courses to upgrade their skills.

He however, called on Ghanaians to demand good governance and accountability from their leaders.

Ghanadot