In Ghana the incompetent have resources while competent lack resources – Gyampo

Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Prof. Ransford Gyampo, has expressed worry over the state of politics in the country.

He argues that currently, people who have the know-how and can do well with governance do not stand the chance to because they lack resources.

Rather, incompetent people have the fire and resources and lie their way through to power only to run the country aground.

In a post shared via social media, the Political Science lecturer was worried Ghana is doomed with the kind of system.

His post also touched on the President’s recent commissioning of projects, indicating that they are half-baked and shouldn’t have been commissioned.

Read His Post Below

Ghana’s democracy and peace would not be destroyed by those who do evil against them but by those of us who shut our mouths and look on. The refusal to take sides in the great battle for the preservation of our democracy and for good governance that translates into tangible developmental outcomes reflective in the lives of the people, is in itself a decision. It is essentially a silent acquiescence to evil politics that benefits only the political elites, their family, friends and concubines.

The tragedy of our time is that, those who can do well in governing, do not have the fire, resources and confidence to stand up to confront the current political elites in elections. But those who are incompetent are the ones who have the fire, confidence and resources to attempt to lie their way to power.

If peace means keeping my mouth shut in a country where we manipulate institutions to pervert justice; where we sink 58 million dollars in digging a big hole under the aegis of building a National Cathedral; where we spend 3 million dollars to procure 200 drones to fight galamsey but see only three of such drones; where we spend 12 million dollars for a dam in Pwalugu that is not built; where we use 34 billion cedis to address a 6 billion cedi banking sector problem; where excessive partisanship has made even the highly educated people politically mad; where the constitution has made the executive president a political king king; where we are hastily commissioning not too completed projects for the purposes of getting votes without being receptive to learning about its punishing consequences on electoral fortunes; where we are scraping the surfaces of roads to create the impression that we are fixing/constructing them, knowing very well we wont be able to complete them; and where we, through politics, manipulate the poor to defend the political elites who are responsible for the poor’s poverty, (and so in spite of hardships, high cost of living and hunger, people are bribed with ten ten cedis and kilos of rice to shout on roof tops that all is well), then I don’t want peace because, I won’t keep quiet today, and tomorrow too.

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