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| Two Johns to Ghana’s rescue? |
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| Posted on: 2008-Mar-01 The Lens |
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Nearly thirty years ago, it took a John to intervene in the affairs of Ghana to take the nation from a state of collapse and chaos to place it back on the world map as a place of honour, dignity and respectability.
At the time, John Jerry Rawlings emerged on the scene, Ghana was in such shambles that it was the vogue for our nationals to troop to neighboring countries such as Togo, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria in search of greener pastures.
After some twenty years at the helm, the reverse became the norm.
Nationals of Togo, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire and Nigeria were rather trooping in their numbers to Ghana in search of better fortunes.
After nearly two decades of honest, dedicated and exemplary leadership, Ghanaians clamoured for a change. They were seduced by the sweet promises of another John. This second John promised them heaven and convinced them that the first John did nothing to better their lives.
Like the people of Israel who saw the giant stature of Saul and clamored for a new leader, Ghanaians saw the so called giant “John Kufuor” and fell for his sweet, alluring promises of “milk and honey”, “money in our pockets”, “zero tolerance for corruption”, “positive change”, “we have the men to transform Ghana” among others.
Nearly eight years on, the nation has finally awoken out of the bad dream. Ghanaians have now realized that while the first John truly came for the sake of his people and the nation, the second one only came because of himself, his family and his coterie of friends and cronies.
After all, did he not openly say before he became president that he was not in politics to become a martyr but to make enough to transform the destiny of his family and relatives?
So can anyone really blame the second John for taking care of himself and his own while the fortunes of Ghanaians keep dwindling by the day?
Corruption has engulfed every segment of the nation under his watch.
Positive Change is absent everywhere except in the lives of his family, officials and friends. Moral degeneration has become the in thing as exemplified in the recent re-appointment of disgraced Richard Anane.
Suffering in the land has reached intolerable levels. Yesterday it was power crisis everywhere, today it is water crisis everywhere. The people are paying fantastic utility bills even though they are not even benefitting from the services.
It is hardship everywhere- but a corrupt government, whose members have become wealthy overnight, continues to look the people in the face, telling them, all is well because the NPP has made the economy so good. Ironically, everywhere one goes, it is cocaine, armed robbery, corruption and hardships.
The legacy of the second John is so shameful that it will require a whole different treatise to outline it all.
As if by design, the viable alternative to the collapse brought by the second John appears to be a third John- John E.A. Mills.
Word in the grapevine is now suggesting that to make assurance double sure the NDC is thinking about unleashing another John to join the John Mills’ rescue squad.
Unconfirmed word has it that John Mahama, ceteris paribus, will be named as the partner of John Mills to ensure that the work of restoration be done effectively.
Two Johns, to Ghana’s rescue?
That will make sense because the work of destruction is always much easier than the work of reconstruction. While it took a single John Kufuor to roll back all the great successes that John Rawlings brought, it will require more than one John to do the vital work of restoration and reconstruction.
The restoration of the nation’s collapsed moral fiber alone will be daunting. So it may well be divine providence that two Johns are being lined up to restore and build on the great foundations laid by the first John. But before that reconstruction is accomplished, so much energy will have to be expended by way of clearing the filth that the second John brought along his trail.
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