Ghana's Leadership Caught In Politics Without Principles In Talensi By-Election

Ghana's national character is gradually being redefined by fear of absurdity by leadership in our political discourses as heard on Okay FM morning show today, 6 July, 2015. The accusations and counter accusations of vote buying by participating political parties in the Talensi by-election sickens hearers and questions our value system as a nation. Our political disposition is creating a perpetual problem of destroying our value system and the way we conduct our public life to destroy our own society.

Politics is nurturing in the Ghanaian society character vividly deficient in values and morals that our traditions and religious faiths characterized in our forebears. The youth who are future leaders believe that with politics one can have knowledge without character, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, commerce without morality and above all action without accountability.

Ignorance of the masses coupled with poverty has given room for depraved politicians to place value of how much voters lives are worth to the snap-shot money and goods dished out to voters during voting periods. Indeed there is a wise saying that there is no smoke without fire. However, our public national discourse is characterized by effrontery lies without accountability- politics without principles.

Leaders emerging out of unethical political tactics will in doubt influence our society negatively by creating an environment where evil is called good and corruption seen in the blurred lenses as normal. Indeed, after a political candidate has won elections through what we witness and hear at high cost, corruption of the office is inevitable. Partisan politics is indeed the root cause of corruption in our society which is gradually choking out traditional and religious belief systems.

We need to confidently look forward to changing our electoral laws to specifically state in no uncertain terms of conduct of political parties during electioneering campaigns and items that are allowed to be given to voters. Our legal system can evidently prosecute vote buying both the buyer and the voter and those who make such accusation without proof can equally be guilty before the laws.

The offices of National Peace Council (NPC), Inter Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) and the Chief Justice are being called upon to work with the National House of Chiefs and Religious faith groups to cure this cancer in our national politics.

For indeed our country has been caught in the vicious cycle of political depravity which can be stopped by conscious effort of the above bodies lest our national security becomes compromised in the near future as corruption begets different forms of social evils.