Renowned Ghanaian businessman, Dr Kofi Amoah has made a passionate call to all Africans to remove the speck in their eyes and see the deceit and exploitation by people they call “development partners”.

To him, the continent has been relegated to be “a place to exploit, a people to be used, deceived and ignored when important global issues are being discussed.”

Dr Amoah, popularly known as Citizen Kofi, expressed these sentiments on Tuesday, July 11 after the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) decided to invite some Asian and Pacific countries to its ongoing summit in Lithuania.

According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, the invitation to Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan is to make the summit global.

But the fact that no invitation was extended to any African country has provoked Dr Kofi Amoah in rallying Africans.

“Africans must sit up and elect a new crop of courageous and intelligent leaders who are aware of Africa’s strengths that can be leveraged to the advantage and benefit of the people to rise up, up and up!!” he wrote on Twitter.

“You will have yourselves to blame by choosing the path of internal divisions, instead of internal unity, and deploy the enormous indispensable natural resources to build strong and expansive economies, but instead depending on borrowing and importation that leaves your able-bodied and energetic youth jobless.”