“Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought” – Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Between the extremes of the self-confessed ‘self-seeking idiots’ and ‘greedy bastards’; the ‘property-owning new patriots’ and ‘property-loving social democrats’, Ghana definitely, needs a real change - a change which needs not be either ‘positive’ or ‘better’ by the standards of the NPP and NDC respectively. Indeed, between the recent analogous “Positive Change” and the “Better Ghana” Agenda of the NPP and NDC, all right-thinking Ghanaians, without a scintilla of doubt, would rather another Party with a different set of Agenda convened the best of our hopes and the best of our values; the best of our aspirations and the best of the trajectories of political governance, in order to get us, in a record time, to the promised land of economic emancipation the nation’s founding father, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, spoke of when he led us to experience a taste of political freedom first in Sub-Saharan Africa. Hence, this piece of a write-up seeks to emphasize the plain truth that political leadership has mostly been the cause of our woes ever since Dr. Nkrumah and the CPP were deliberately, hounded out of the political scene, giving true meaning to the maxim that ‘strike the shepherd, and the sheep invariably, would get scattered’. And that our salvation as a nation, a continent’s ambassador and a true representative of the black race, only lies in rebuilding the CPP up again with Nkrumah’s blueprint! Yes! It is true that Rawlings was in the trenches of dignity-of-work with a disillusioned generation to at least offer it hope, even if it was for a short time and with a grave human rights record as well; Kuffour obviously, meant well at least on paper, with his social interventions, including the ‘free’ maternal care/national health insurance system; and Mills arguably, is still trustworthy when he says proceeds from our newly found oil and gas at the Jubilee Fields (Cape Three Point) “would be invested in the people”. But it is also true that as a nation with a relatively young population, most of our citizens have, in a straight line, only tasted the ‘hollow leadership’ of Rawlings’ 19 year rule; we have only felt the ‘senile leadership’ of Kuffour’s 8 year government, much as we have already started questioning the ‘dithering leadership’ the Mills’ administration is needlessly, offering the good people of this country, as far as the nation Ghana’s true aspirations are concerned. Indeed, the similarity between the leadership concave lens of the NPP as well as that of the convex lens of the NDC is that both ultimately produce bleak images of lack of purpose, poverty, organized crimes, armed conflicts, famine, diseases and general lack of advancements in Ghana’s socio-cultural settings on their focal points of corruption (or what their moral relativists may choose to call “indiscretions”). By E. Kofi Panford Read the full article here