So how do you make sure you don't have to chase people to pay their bills?

Answer: Pre-paid meters.

Okay next question: How do you ensure that you cut waste and losses in water consumption by a half-thirsty, half-satisfied metropolitan populace?

Answer:  pretty simple; its pre-paid meters (according to Ghana Water Company)

And how do you ensure some government appointees deemed to be do-littles actually get to do much more?

Or that those who say they are working for you actually work for you?

Answer: .......hhhmmmm pre-paid meters?

Maybe, just maybe, you  would not be exactly wrong.

Euphemistically speaking - people are not happy knowing government pays itself that much.

Maybe its really not that much.

According to revelations on Joy FM's Super Morning Show last Thursday

President         = Ghc12,000

Vice- President = Ghc 9,000

Regional ministers gets Ghc 7,800 x 10 of them = 78,000

Deputy ministers  gets Ghc 6,600 x 44 = 290,000

MPs(275 honourables) gets Ghc 6,000 = 1,060,000

Administrators of District Assemblies (216 guys) = Ghc 7,800

So on a monthly basis, we pay Ghc 3,723,800. That's Ghc 44,685,600 a year for Ghana's political elite.

And here is why they are not happy. When the people suffer, even the legitimate salary of a politician appears stolen.

The president doesn't buy anything because we wanna make sure he spends time thinking about how we can buy something.

The reason why we insulate the political elite from paying their own bills, from buying gas and from general economic worry is so that they can exclusively focus on how they can improve our conditions in order that we too can pay for our own bills, smile while buying fuel and thank God for their tenure of office too.

And what do we get for this? A number of governments whose business is to increase fuel prices at home anytime fuel prices are up abroad.

Anybody can do that. It goes up, then I push it up. That's a no-brainer. I mean we really don't need you, if anybody can do what you do, do we?

So yes people are suffering at the expenses of some of government guys.

When you listen to the explanations for cedi falling, you begin to think maybe..just maybe...if some of the ministers, deputy ministers, political appointees stop explaining why the cedi is falling....it might just start rising.

We post 74 foreign trained Ghanaian doctors and for a year, they are not paid. I mean you can screw with the nurses - we have pretty much accepted government's messing up with these life-saving assistants. But doctors? I mean doctors? Who does that?

And one of the reason why people think less of politicians these days is because they see to much profiteering in the game.

Too many young people, too many non-achievers, too many novices in government. This youth-thing has been stretched too far. If the youth are governing, what should the 'old' do? - try athletics at the 2014 Commonwealth games?

The reason why you have to be 40 to stand for president is because, it is generally believed that by that age, you would have been drained of material cravings so embossed in the DNA of youth. By that age, you would generally have reached a stage of self-actualization so that your actions are legacy-driven.

That mentality should inform who we appoint as a minister too.

True, the young have ideas but those ideas often get squeezed out of us when we are under pressure - a pressure to make it in life.

True we are hungry to succeed but that's because we are literally so hungry we dread failure.

But all this hunger, this creativity is gone that moment we get into a comfortable place. Any idea of a comfortable place?

Correct - Politics.

So how do we get out of this parasitic relationship? How do we get out of this 'pay-a-political-appointee-get - less-for--free' kind of relationship?

If pre-paid metering is government's way of ensuring efficiency, then it should be the public's new way of getting value for money.

Maybe it's time for some prepaid leadership.

Maybe it's time for us to pay the executive and legislature only when we actually get a real service.

A sort of arrangement where if you want a minister to solve a galamsey menace, we wait for him to actually solve it before we pay him.

A sort of pay-as-you-go kind of service.