Ghana’s former Ambassador to the Netherlands, Dr Tony Aidoo says Ghana’s political leadership only benefits few whiles the masses suffer.
He explained that, the elite and those close to the presidency are mostly beneficiaries of state gains.
According to him, it is time for critical thinking in order to put in a place a system where everyone benefits from the governance system.
“The welfare of the mass population has not mattered much to the political leadership as much as their own parochial welfare and every change of government is nothing but a change of an elite to replace the previous administrations elite,”
“The gap between rich and poor continues to widen. We should ask ourselves how much wealth can an individual, a politician, create, in order to create wealth for even generations unborn at the expense of contemporary populations under circumstances in which a large majority of our people are indigent.
“…And we ask ourselves what is the value of the democracy? Is this the democracy that is beneficial to the masses or to the few? This is the question.” he said at a conference organised by The Progressive Intellectuals in Accra on Tuesday, 2 October 2018, on the theme: “Rethinking Political Leadership in Ghana”.
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For Once big applaus for the man
It is interesting to hear the presentation of Tony Aidoo ounce served in the circles of the past Regimes. The political elites have failed this Country, greediness and selfischness, mass corruption amoung the elites both in the past and present governments. Your presentation failed to bring out the Facts and examples needed. Is a fact that, many our political elites have their children getting expensie education outside the Country sepecificaly in Europe and America, whiles the poor children of ghanaians in the rural Areas areas still struggling with their studies on the trees and even without eletricity. How many of our political elites get expensive health Treatment in Europe and Ameirica, whiles poor ghanaians are suffering from better simple Treatment of Malaria because our Hospitals and rural clinics have insufficient medications. The hypocrasy of our political elites and Tony Aidoo had been in the circles of the elites.
That politics in Ghana tends to favour the direct actors is a challenge we must all deal with. Whether or not it is true for every government, or certain actors in government conspire to make it so, is something to research and validate. Why people want to pay money to SERVE us is also intriguing. BUT that is not the problem. The PROBLEM is those who say they KNOW this for a fact (because they once were in power), ONLY TALK about these issues when they're in OPPOSITION. They begin to say it is "not about NPP or NDC; it is about Ghana". Not true. It betrays insincerity, and confirms that such people are actually fighting for themselves. They do that to whip up negative sentiments about the establishment, so THEY can come back to power to resume THE SAME THING. Because they all of a sudden realize that they're no more partakers of the booty THEY once created. Here will be the litmus test of the truth in that assertion and the genuineness of the calls for change: That while in government, these SAME PEOPLE will gather the courage to say things like these, and call for change. ONLY THEN should we take them serious. Else these are rantings of the hungry and propaganda cooked by a so-called Progressive Intellectuals. No, it is just political mobilization and re-grouping. We must see right through it for what it is. Period!