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10.05.2016 Opinion

Ghana And Democracy

By Gavin Bond
Ghana And Democracy
10.05.2016 LISTEN

I am presently in Ghana . I have been here for the past two months and there has never been a day when one turns on the TV and never sees or hears about the coming election in November. it is so sad for me to see how Afrikans have been "white brain washed" about democracy.

These so called educated Afrikan leaders have been promised lots of money to implement their system of democracy in countries where you have nations within countries. If they had said to the leaders to have the USA system, it would have made more sense. They never did because they know politics was invented to divide the peoples. Politics followed the template of religions. How? You will ask. Just three pointers here.

i) Constitution = Bible & Koran
ii) President/Prime Minister = Pope; Archbishop; Ayatollah

iii) Constituents = Congregation
For the enlightened, religion is a business model. Same model that has been adopted by conglomerates such as IBM, Fords, Nissan, Volks Wagon, etc. They have their headquarters based in their home land and have offices all over the world. This is the same way the Roman Catholic Church started, which has been copied by conglomerates.

In politics, you have the Party Headquarters and then have constituencies and their offices all over the country. They create jobs and employment when well organised. To do this as the west has done, the country has to be at a relative stage of development. People never had the votes automatically in the West originally. They went through stages to get to where they are today. But they want the Afrikans to do a quantum leap to get there by magic; impossible. To get there, the electorates must be educated. No one votes in the West with their thump as identification mark!

We are wasting so much money on this system yet you go to many places in Ghana and find communities with no drinking water, no lighting, no school buildings, with the nearest school miles away. People have no jobs and yet the so called educated leaders are spending millions on western style democracy when they should sit down together to formulate how to use that money to better Ghana and then later have a system that is inclusive and not divisive. The western system of democracy is divisive and not intended for a developing country. We must develop the country before we introduce division. Why do we want to divide when I keep hearing we are one people!

Again, that's where some are going wrong. We are not one people. We have the same pigmentation but speak different languages, that have identified us as been different. Therefore, the system we need in Ghana and Afrika is an Autonomous System like the USA, Canada, Australia, etc. Not the one we have right now, which is a continuation of the old colonial system, where the Central Government is now the new colonial master! Yes, we are all Ghanaians but we are different peoples put together by the old colonial masters. Time has come to decolonise ourselves by introducing self government in the form of Autonomy for the Regions. Later, there should be a debate about Federation and Confederation.

I would like to direct the politicians, our so called educated leaders, to go have a read on the Human Rights Declaration. They should read, especially Article 22 to 26 and tell me if they have not been abusing the rights of their citizens, especially children and the unemployed!

Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality

Article 25.

  • (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
  • (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

DO WE HAVE THE ABOVE TWO ( 22 & 25) IN AFRICA?

Yet the West does not shout about abuse of these rights in Afrika. Rights they should have introduced when they were the colonial masters. I suppose black lives means nothing to the white folks. But when it comes to same sex marriages, they shout about abuse of Rights. You politicians and peoples of Afrika, can you see the HYPOCRISY here?

Before some point out about funds/capital etc, may I ask, Do we not have a Central Bank? Why can we not do a Reserve Bank like the USA, where government borrows its money from instead of doing so from the IMF or World Bank. Pays the interest to the Federal Reserve Bank instead of the IMF. Now, tell me why we cannot do that in Afrika! Why should we borrow money from the World Bank and IMF and pay them interest, when we can do same with our Central Bank? We sell our oil, cocoa, gold, bauxites, etc in dollars, therefore we have plenty of $$$! See how much profit our Central Banks can make by the government borrowing money from it instead of doing so from the IMF or World Bank. Our politicians' brains have been white washed to think all things coming from the whites are gospels; you get it, Gospels! That is what the foreign religions have done to us, conditioned our mind to think white peoples like Jesus Christ and Muhammad are our saviours; LIES, LIES and LIES!

We can be our own saviours by using our common sense that the Almighty One has endowed upon some of us. The Almighty One has given us all these natural resources and what do we do with them, concede them to the white folks! If the Almighty wanted us to have long hair, we would have been given it. Now, some are bleaching their skin because they think white skin is better.

Like Bob Marley said, "Only Ourselves Can Free Our Minds" - From Redemption Song!

Gavin Bond, Author (Shine Your Eyes Mama Africa, Memoir of an Enlightened African- Amazon and other bookshops)+233561997983

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