The World Ruler - Part 26

"The worst part of all is, I mean was," continued the man that had appeared from nowhere, "that the system of Democracy was forced onto us by the Americans. Democracy, at least as of now, is not working for us. Ghanaians are still on the level and will be so for a few more generations to come, that they need a King that is a tough loving teacher and leader.

They must know that they can look up to a raw model of excellence to follow and guide them into a better future. Let's face facts and not fictions or well-wishing Many projects to change society for the better are generation projects, not accomplished in four or eight years as long as a President stays in an office rather lasting for thirty or forty or even more years. But our selfish Ghanaian politicians only can think as long as they can stay in power, in the office of the President complaining against the next one following them that that one has his agenda for party political reasons to gain majority votes and sit in the President's Office to chop money from the nation of Ghana. Look around history and you will unveil that projects once started by a previous administration will be left abandoned as these projects are not the legacy of the new party in power.

We waste so much time, so much money. And when you look back in all the years since our Independence and the promise by our first great President that h had made `When the black man is finally free he can manage his affairs` then you know that with the greatest of respect o that great African Leader, he was misjudging his people. Since the independence of Africa, it was the mindset of our Leaders that messed us up as this mindset allowed the white man to misuse us for his agenda, to keep power always over us. But what we should have done rather join ideas and hand together and stand as one united front here on the African continent to stand against the white man and voice our ideas and interest against anyone wanting to mess our future up. Instead, what did we do here? Every African nation, every African businessman did not trust each other. There was no trust among us blacks here on the African continent for collaboration.

We rather thought the white man is more trustworthy than we among ourselves. We are great in using great sweet words so pleasant to the ears of our people and the world. The truth on the ground exposes itself by the African reality. And African reality is that we are entirely responsible for the misery our people had to endure in all those years past since independence, we simply did not stand united and for that matter did not do the right things. All the African Leaders were exposed to the world of the white man, even studied at his universities, having houses there, going for medical treatment to him, sending their kids to school in their countries, but once touching the ground again on African soil the evil spirits of our forefathers caught up with them all and messed up their countries very well. In the societies of the white man, it is an up and down process with the continued tendency to show progress and come out strong step by step.

But in on the African continent, we see one great leader turning the tables in his country for the better, but as soon as the next to come to follow him, the country goes down again. So, with us, it is always an up and down with no final progress made in the end overtime for generations to generations to enjoy. And the irony of history is that you the white people had to come back to Africa to unite us not because you are good people but because you see the danger that is in overpopulation of Africa for your societies and that you must protect your country from massively seeing Africans coming to you as political and economic migrants. So, your mind was telling you, let us ensure African countries are highly indebted than we force the old guard of African leaders out and have the power and mandate to push our people into their State Houses so that they can manage the African nations, not as colonies but simply to ensure that African migrants do no enter their societies in the numbers or let TV stations broadcast drawing black people in the water or dying helplessly in the African desert. By your mind, you can see what long time planning can create.

Now you people sit here in Ghana, have wisely as you are, turned the country into a new Kingdom with an elected king as many countries in world history had seen before as this concept, as we all know, the experts of history these are that I mean, is never new. When countries like Ghana is in misery and come to a point in time that is a dead-end, there is no need to cry, no need to feel ashamed of any shortcomings, but it is a sign, a great one, to ask for help. This help mostly comes from outside, from people, or I better say, one person, that is not involved in any way into the internal affairs and mingling of the past strings of giving and taking but can with a clear and free heart and mind solve our problems for good. Like Alexander the Great once saw the knot in Gordian cutting with his sword ending a generation long-lasting problem for the people in the city, you have done nothing but the same, learning and copying history that works well for people.

Blacks are not good in understanding the simple messages hidden in history as when you want to hide something from the black man you write it in a book. But you the white people love to write and read books for which reason you matured more than us. It does not mean that you are better people, far from it, but you are very different from us. The lesson for us to learn is to check you, people, out, observe what you are doing better than us, to copy what you do best and leave what you do wrong and in the end improve on what you do better to do it best so that the best we can sell back to you and influence your societies like that to stand above you and dominate the world as that is what God has mandated us with. Let me end and repeat, the irony of history is, like once with Laurence of Arabia, that it takes a white foreigner, an outsider, to teach us Africans a lesson of who we are and start the process of world rulership."

"Nice to see you, Sir. It is an honour that you have accepted my invitation for a talk," greeted Minister Justice Alooma his guest, Charles Bravioury from Wales in the UK. "But please, Sir, to discuss issues I am so interested in here in my Ministry of foreign affairs is not the best place to do that. For my brain to think well and function well, I love to walk along our coastline. Fresh winds from the ocean not only brings fresh air into my mind but also the imagination for places far from here, stimulating my fantasies and imagination. So, if you do not mind...," was he showing him the way out and walked down the stairs to his car already waiting for the two men to be driven off.

"I am pleased to see that your people can swim. I was always assuming they fear water as they think demons live there and come out from under the water to haunt them," mentioned Charles Bravioury much to his surprise. Both men were walking along the beach at Sakumono Village seeing fisher folks selling their fresh catch to the market mongers ready to sell them further to car divers passing by to buy their evening meal. The fish were big and fresh, healthy-looking and many. "So, you managed to bring back fresh fish into the ocean in good numbers!"

Minister Justice Alooma smiled with pride in his face and answered with a clear, strong voice: "Every Ghanaians are learning swimming at school, that is mandatory in the new Kingdom of Ghana. And we were successfully teaching them to overcome their stupid belief that demons live in the water to come for them. Now they are relaxed and as you can see enjoy a good swim with their mates and families. And what the fish concerns, yes, we had tough times herewith nets half-filled with plastics. Now as you can see the fishnets are filled with only a very small percentage of plastic but with healthy big fish. We were successful in pushing back the European trawlers out of our waters. So the fish stock in our waters was able to recover and even as you can see we have floating islands on which we harvest not only our fruits and vegetables being ahead of many foreign nations once called the developed world. Over there not far from the shores of our beloved Sakumono."

"Yes, I can see that, and I have to admit, I am most impressed. I have a heart so much good news already about it that Ghana has turned itself into the land of innovation. I know from many visits in Nigeria where I was told Nigerians are very business-minded people, very competitive as there are now so many of them in such a small place compared to the increased population, but that the people over there still have money but not the ability to innovate."

"When you bring a ready-made product to the Millionaires and Billionaires in Nigeria, no problem, when they like your product they give you Millions to produce it. But their mind is not on invention only on trading to trade on oil, gas and cement is nothing magical, only needs clever minds. But to innovate something like a computer, a TV, a radio or even such platform outs there that we have come up with...for that one they are still not capable of," smiled Minister Justice Alooma, the Nigerian man knowing his people only too well.

"Let me ask you one question...," started Charles Bravioury walking side by side with Minister Alooma overlooking the Gulf of Guinea and enjoying a fresh brise from the salty water.

"Let me ask you a question...," started Minister Justice Alooma to say right at the same time. Both were laughing and paused for a short moment.

"Please Minister," smiled Charles Bravioury looking at his host, "you first!"

Minister Justice Alooma stepped back and responded: "No Sir, you first as you are my guest, and this honour goes to you. So, ask me, please!"

"Alright, I hear you, Sir," said Charles Bravioury and walked on with the Minister following him. "I want to know why democracy was not working for you here in Ghana and the rest of the African continent. I mean, democracy is such a good system, not the best, of course, never perfect, but for me, the best mankind had ever invented."

"Sure, let me explain not too complicated, but let me pick out a few visible and exemplary examples illustrating the reasons very well," started Justice Alooma to lecture his guest. "Our people here on the ground during the Fourth Republic of Ghana, our truly dark days, littered the environment so much that in the end, people fell sick and eventually many died due to shocked open gutters filled with plastic waste, plastic bags and plastic bottles allowing in our cities mosquitos to bread very well causing malaria problems where there should have never been such problems in the first place. Open markets saw plies of waste stinking laying behind the back of market women selling their fresh products from the rural farming communities.

Yes, laws were put in place to ensure a clean environment, to ensure water bodies are not overloaded with plastic waste, even fines were imposed on offenders not following the rules. Clean up exercises were undertaken by political parties, churches, and civic organisations...no problem. The only problem as the situation got worse year after year as the population in Ghana was increasing the small increased money, they had the people used for products wrapped in plastic. Toxic city, that is at the outskirts of Accra, our former capital, not far from this place that we are standing, was toxic indeed bit no government was ending the destruction of human health and life as well as the environment. As we did not have a functional sewage system from manholes of private houses and office buildings trucks were taking the human waste out and brought them to Lavenda Hill to dump it into the ocean...imagine sixty years after independence.

Toilets were not in every house in this country, even in public space toilets were not available like in your society at that time forcing many to pee anywhere anyhow, even making their smelly by the roadside and along the beach and railway tracks...sixty good years after independence still that shameful behaviour while other countries that had been in the same situation like Ghana, let me mention United Arab Emirates, Singapore, South-Korea, Malaysia and so on were far more advanced than us having no natural recourses or only one like crude oil in Dubai. Now what makes them have advanced more was their mindset.

Here offenders littering the environment not punished, and near severely. If any political party of the dark days of Ghana would have ever dared to enforce the environmental protection laws and fine offenders seriously, the voters would have blackmailed them saying next time at election day they would vote for the other party in opposition proclaiming and promising that they could solve the environmental destruction and make Ghana clean again without punishment of such offenders. For the old guard of politicians to sit in parliament on being a minister was a source of income, not a mission to better the lives of their people. The state would pay them their monthly allowances and be in their position close to the executive would ask any contractors to consider them when approaching Ministers for contracts to have money by their side always.

So, fighting environmental problems was always on their lips but only sweet words do not change the agenda and did not do anything good for the country. When political parties of our dark days highlighted corruption in public or let their flowers make a loud noise about cases uncovered you should have looked into the faces of the angry opposition and behind their words. Guess what, democracy in our dark days of the Fourth Republic of Ghana was nothing but the institutional legal right for the elite in the country to take natural assets away from the people. Yes, there was noise in the country by many but each party knew if there would touch the one in power too much and bring about change when they n the office of the President they would do just the same and harm the nation in their style. It was clear to all politicians in the country to make noise to win votes but not to be too harsh and swift not to see the boomerang in their faces once in power.

And there is another good example of how the people were in the olden dark days of the country. One former presidential candidate running for office has a group of companies one of which a bank, first saving and loans, then reached the status of a bank. Now that man, exposed mainly to America, saw his bank collapse by the then administration respectively the Bank of Ghana. He shouted foul and complained about unfair treatment as he claimed state companies were holding his money not given the loans handed outback. And that this was the reason for the final collapse of his bank. I simply say he was mismanaging the funds given to him by his partners and customers. His idea was when you give out big loans to the government you get with one or few contracts big money in return in form of interest rates which would eventually make you rich in no time while giving out loans in small and smaller doses would be time-consuming and less profitable.

Even he knew that in a developed country like Ghana was with all the corruption in the system, a justice system not serving the people well, a clique of people knowing each other since childhood and being connected across party lines would eventually never do any serious harm to their own on the top level of society...such a society, I mean such a country and government is work of all creditors as you will never see your money back in the time that you need it to run a professional business. Any debt judgement you might get from any High court is useless paperwork, waste of time. Yes, you might get a judgement against the state...but as the state itself is not functioning well and is corrupt in all its corners, how do you seriously think with the paperwork in our hands the government is finally after years of fighting for your right giving you back your money. Do you seriously believe you can take roads, airports, power stations away from the state to be compensated for your loss caused by the government in such a case?

As for foreign investor or governments, this might be possible as you might have insured your investment outside Ghana and governments can push hard on Ghana on their level. But let’s not fool ourselves local investors and entrepreneurs get rather killed financially or physically before any government is moved to do what they rightly deserve. So, this simple example shows the greediness that was in the mind of the people here and for that reason no wonder that the country was never moving forward."

"Oh Sir, I am deeply shocked and shaken...I never knew!" said Charles Bravioury standing still to look deep into the sad eyes of the Minister by his side.

Minister Justice Alooma walked to the water, took off his shoes and socks, pulled up his trousers and stepped into the water to make his feet be covered by the freshness of the Gulf of Guinea. He looked over the water till the horizon before turning back to look into the eyes of his guest, lifting his head and said: "As long as these waters are still flowing and making waves rushing to the shores, the world is not lost!"

"You are right...so right...there is always hope!" answered Charles Bravioury doing as his host did putting his feet into the water.

"Once an American President visited Ghana demanding strong institutions that would help Ghana to progress. I mean, come on, be serious, that is stupid and cheap propaganda as institutions do not work by themselves like robots. Without people working inside institutions, such bodies are dead, empty, not functioning. It always takes people in a strong legal framework to bring institutions to life and light especially the people at the top are important for the success of failure of any such institutions. And that means if the people working in such institutions do not have the right mindset but are corrupt in their heads and hearts...the institutions are useless...simple facts, simple truth, simple reality!"

"You are right on that aspect as well. That comment of that President was indeed useless but sounding certainly well in the ears of his followers back home and around the world of people not thinking deeply about words spoken by people in power," laughed Charles Bravioury keeping his toes in the water while walking side by side with Minister Justice Alooma.

"Now, let me ask you...as it is my turn now...Sir, why did you come to Africa and why especially here?" asked Minister Justice Alooma anxiously waiting to hear the answer.

"I have to answer in two parts, Sir," started Charles Bravioury to explain his motivation to leave Wales and move down to a continent h had never known personally before. "Being a Christian myself I went down on my knees when I was hearing the voice, the calling, to set sails for Ghana. I prayed to God each morning as I normally do ask him for a week why I hear Ghana in my head, not any other country, but this one here that I am in right now. First I did not hear any voice from the Lord, but I kept on asking until one day God spoke to me and he said, Ghana is the leader of the African Union, of the process to unite Africa the world is scared of. Ghana, he said, is not the cleverest country on the African continent, not the one with highest rights to deserve being the leader of Africa and for that reason eventually the ruler of the world. He opened my eyes and reminded me that Jesus Christ decided for Peter to build his church on and not any other disciples. Peter was not the best among all of them but the one willing to accept correction and guidance from the Lord. When he was not thinking right, and the Lord corrected him he was willing to learn and follow the teachings always unlike the others. Ghana was not a peaceful country I knew...there were also killings in the nation, hitmen willing to kill people for small money, tribalism and fighting’s from village to village in the north of the country...but after all, compared to the rest of Africa, still the most peaceful nation on the African continent. And for that one, I agree."

"Interesting," said Minister Justice Alooma, "...my Nigerians would certainly disagree and question your statement...but in any case, please continue!"

"The second aspect of my motivation to come down here is simple also. Now, I was in charge of a bank branch of a commercial bank well known in all of UK. Modern technology made many of us Bankers redundant. It is not only that factory works, heavy and simple work, were replaced by robots but also highly qualified jobs were replaced by modern technology.