Growing up, I learnt that
you need not necessarily have a good character. All that matters is you should
be known for something. By all means, be known as that wicked guy, that vagabond,
that good boy, that prostitute, that intelligent chap, rather than not assuming
any character and thinking that you are safe. Safe from what or who? When your
name comes to the fore, people are not able to place a name to your face and
you call yourself unassuming.
I remember in the year
2000, when Ex President Kufour took over the reins of power, we had a lot of
technocrats and fine brains 'proceeding on leave', mostly to return no more. It turned out that most
people who were perceived to be unaligned to the ideals of the party nor contributed
whatsoever to its gains could not revel in its spoils and it makes sense and
methinks it is the right way to go.
Whoever dines with an odd fellow?
Loyalty
pays and should be rewarded big time. How do you expect me not to work with
people who were there and supported me to wrestle power from my opponents? It's
not wise and not formidable. What is wrong if I replace one Ghanaian with
another Ghanaian? If they are all Ghanaians and qualified for a job, then the onus lies
on the big man to call the shots, simply because, he has the big picture and
knows who fits into his plan. The rest may be grunts but who cares if it's part
of human nature. For your own good, it's not good to work, wine and dine with
someone who doesn't believe in you or your ways of doing things and so forth.
Fast forwarded to the biggest opposition party in Ghana, our very own National Democratic Congress (NDC) in
the last 8years, spearheaded by the late President Atta Mills before Ex-President John Dramani Mahama, what did we see?
We saw a leadership that decided not to reward faithfuls who helped them
wrestle power. We saw a leadership that decided to be a father-for-all; and to even
those who didn't want to be its children. We saw a leadership that alienated
its members to fend for themselves; a father who took care of other people's
children other than their own, and you expected your children to come out and vote for
you?
Did we have corrupt
officials in the erstwhile government? Maybe, yes or no, but our father for all
was high on sympathy than morals and sanctity of our nation, so he forgave all
as though the country was his bonafide.
My prayer for a party
with a character, National Patriotic Party (NPP), is that if there are witches, then they have to be
hunted down and of course, they have to reward their loyalists. Being a father-for-all in the Political sphere is a fallacy and can't be adhered to the
letter. All you can do is to promote an enabling environment and people would
find their feet.
Writer tweets @vilejah
4 comments:
isn't "unassuming" a character description?
Butterflies are . They may not have the heavy flesh capable of carrying bones and feathers nor clawed talons fit for deep into the sky flight and heavy prey preying. But they're the aged caterpillars that once devoured leaves that denied birds and men food. Let this be just an excursion into my biology class.
But substantively, could the NDC be said to be in a character flux? I doubt this. I shall come back to deal this later.
Thanks for the time and comment. Unassuming is a description of character waxed in gray, when it's supposed to be distinctive ie blue, green or any colour of your choice. Unassuming as a character trait portrays you as colorless which is not good in times of categorization. Fact that you are unassuming means we don't know what to make of u.
it couldn't be said any other way
with the likes of Akua Donkor benefiting from it
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