Where Has Trust & Loyalty Gone To As A Country?

I have been privy to listen to friends I have made on social network confide in me with their private issues from family to personal relationships. I have had people told me stuff about others if they knew will never talk to them again. Mind you, I have only met a handful of friends I only know here on social media. BUT ALL THESE INDIVIDUALS TRUSTED ME ENOUGH TO CONFIDE IN ME TO BE LOYAL AND RESPECT THEIR PRIVACY.

If you were one of them and I broke that trust and betrayed you, how will you feel? Remember I'm not your blood relation and you don't even know me in person. Can you now imagine how much it will hurt if the person who has betrayed your trust and loyalty is blood related?

While I do not condone some of the things Ms Victoria Hamah said, I think a greater proportion of our populace are behaving hypocritical. HOW MANY OF US HAVE NOT SAID SOMETHING IN PRIVATE CONFIDENTIALLY THAT WE WILL BE FUMING IF IT CAME OUT IN THE OPEN? Even Jesus Christ instructed Peter, John and James not to reveal the transfiguration to anyone. "Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish." --Barbara Smith

Ms Victoria Hamah gave this ungrateful excuse for a cousin a job as her driver because she trusted him to be loyal. Three special qualities very typical of most weak minds came into question in all these unfortunate revelations and betrayal: 1/ loyalty, 2/ bravery, 3/ self-sacrifice. Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love. --Morihei Ueshiba

I guess because she knew her own weakness of bad talking habits can get out of hand, so she will rather have a brother/cousin as a driver than a stranger.

This moron of a driver (to use a very economical description) allegedly betrayed her trust in him. I guess she is only young and has learnt the hard way that in Ghana apart from you immediate siblings in most natural instances, extended family can be some of your worst enemies and strangers can show impeccable loyalty than supposed family relations.

When did we as country suddenly become nationalists or we just love to see people suffer? No one is condemning what the disloyal chap did as much as what she was gossiping and bloating her influence about as a normal 30/31 year-old Ghanaian woman looking at the world as her oyster and a promising carrier as a politician in-front of her.

Most of my readers will be taken aback a bit because I have not been Victoria's greatest fan. The image she has created for herself which the recording virtually confirmed has not helped her course either, and I questioned the president's thinking putting her out there for public scrutiny with her appointment as deputy minister of state. In all this, I hold very strong conceptualised views and A FIRM BELIEVER OF TRUST AND LOYALTY AS A PROFESSIONAL AND A SOCIAL BEING MOST IMPORTANTLY.

I believe Ms Victoria Hamah was only sacked (and I would have done the same as a president) for revealing what she knew about an alleged visit by Oye Lithur to the Justices before the verdict. To her credit, in good faith, she further applauded Oye Lithur playing - as clandestine as it may be - major role for her government towards winning the court case. But unfortunately for her, the alarmingly global assumption around the world media is that she was sacked because of the intent to make $1,000,000 then leave politics. If all those politicians who are being critical of her for voicing their private thoughts out will be honest, 99% of them do harbour this goal subconsciously.

It is unfortunate that the perception is that she is going to steal this $1,000,000 like a considerable number of politicians are increasingly doing now, but in all fairness to her, she didn't even give the time scale she intends to achieve this misplaced and scandalous feat in politics and more importantly by what means.

All that critical thinkers are demanding is that we expect more from President Mahama from now on in-line with dealing with issues suggestive of just the intent to steal from the state or be involved in corrupt practices. If President Mahama sacked Ms Hamah for revealing to the world through the leaked tape that her interest in politics is not to serve the people primarily but make $1,000,000 so that she can control people, then I applaud the president. The anticipation from now on will be that of a more thorough clean-up of the 'likes' of such train of thoughts expressed by Ms Hamah from politics. However, the problem enlightened political commentators and enthusiasts have now is that, no one knows exactly why she was sacked.

As much as I understand the rational behind the possible reason(s) why the president sacked her, there are other senior public servants, politicians inclusive, who have been implicated in the Woyome thievery and the GYEEDAgate but who are still at posts. Why have they not been sacked? So I believe the calls by critical thinkers insisting that the president comes out to tell the electorate and the Ghanaian public, who put you in-charge of our dear motherland, his reasons to sack Ms Victoria Hamah is not misplaced.

In the mist of all this, I don't think Ms Victoria Hamah is handling her predicament very well. Who are the people advising her? I hope she still does not believe in a statement she made on the leaked recorded tape that seems to suggest her belief that in Ghana politics it makes no difference if you are unpopular or have a bad public image. Unfortunate to those who still hold such an obsolete view, times are changing and it's not smart to hold such views about the public; it even becomes the more catastrophic to let one's actions be guided by such naive views.

I will conclude by saying that, if Ms Victoria Hamah could humble herself and appeal to the conscience of the Ghanaian public in a well measured emotional press release, she could get her political carrier back on track and stronger in due course, because she is still very young. She has the potential to be likable. But she needs to quickly and methodologically refine some of her rather elusive and selfish views about political leadership and how to use such stewardship which is quite evident in her own words and voice on the leaked tape. If she were able to reform her thoughts and publicly talk about it, I believe she will still have a place as a public figure in Ghana, not necessarily front-line elected political leadership.

I wish her all the best in whatever she decides to do. To the rest of us, TO ERR IS HUMAN. However, it's important for her to come out to appeal for forgiveness to claim TO FORGIVE IS DIVINE.

YK, Founder Of CPAG