I have been following the NDC-NPP presidential-staff numbers game with great amusement, if primarily because it glaringly avoids the real issue at stake.

And that issue, of course, regards the question of whether President John Agyekum-Kufuor, in 2005, ran a far more efficient administration, or government, with a staff of 692 appointees, or President John Dramani Mahama, with a reported presidential staff of 678, in 2014, is the more efficient administrator of the two leaders.

To be certain, a more accurate administrative comparison would be to juxtapose Mr. Kufuor's presidential staff in 2001 with that of Mr. Mahama's first year and first term  in office. Or could this be the latter's only term in office? Anyway, former President Kufuor was recently reported to have aptly observed that it was rather premature for him, or any levelheaded Ghanaian citizen, for that matter, to realistically measure the performance of President Mahama.

And since Mr. Mahama was also second-in-command to the late President John Evans Atta-Mills, perhaps an even better comparative analysis of the administrative efficiency of the country's two major parties would be to, as well, factor in the number of presidential staff engaged by the former Legon tax-law professor at the time of his death.

But what even more significantly concerns me here, is President Mahama's bitter public complaint against his seemingly most ardent and astute critics, to the quite intellectually sobering effect that rather than facilely and cavalierly predicting the imminent doom of his government and country at large, these "wise Ghanaian politicians" should be about the at once godly and patriotic business of helping him successfully negotiate the present economic hurdles confronting the country.

The President's appeal appears to have garnered a remarkable modicum of its desired effect, because Mr. Mahama has also been reported to have written on his Facebook page or wall the following note: "I thank and salute the wise Ghanaian politicians who understand that the right attitude in such times[,] is to assist the government and stop predicting disasters."

Still, I take unreserved exception to Mr. Mahama's rather self-serving assertion that "in a democratic country, such as ours, the government is the people's government.

It is your government." Well, a crucial part of the current administrative migraine facing the former Rawlings communications minister, is that Ghana is clearly not the sort of decentralized and locally representative democracy that it direly needs to be in order for the country to function at full throttle.

For instance, as of this writing (2/16/14), not a single district, municipal and/or metropolitan chief executive officer is elected by the local populace for whom these local administrators have been pledged to serve.

And what is more, genuine efforts to democratize this most fundamental aspect of Ghana's democratic culture have been fiercely resisted and/or stalled by some of the most influential operatives of the National Democratic Congress, an ironically named political organization with absolutely no enviable record of democratic governance.

It goes without saying that I am staunchly behind an efficiently and perspicuously run democratic Ghana. The fact of the matter, though, is that the Ghana presently piloted by President Mahama has yet to credibly demonstrate that it has the inalienable and inviolable interests of Ghanaian citizens on the front burner of its so-called Better Ghana Agenda.

In other words, you cannot unwisely and ignobly convert the country's labor market into the prime preserve of unskilled and purposely imported Chinese laborers paid in dollars, and other hard currencies, at the expense of a teeming multitude of unemployed and woefully underemployed and equally unskilled Ghanaian citizens. Galamsey or not, the government is fully in the know about how these unsavory Chinese human imports enter the country.

And I bet my proverbial bottom-dollar that our former British robber-barons could not have formulated a better system of internal slavery, and socioeconomic and cultural alienation.