Do the mental fortitude of our black leaders get disorganised due to the pressure of office, or most of them are born foolish

Thinking about the allocation of 105 vehicles to the Ghana government by the EU. We hear that the same number or more of such vehicles will be delivered by the EU to neighbouring states of Ivory Coast, Benin, and Togo. Ostensibly, these vehicles were seized from Libyan warring factions, and they are meant for we West Africans to combat terrorism. Sometimes, I wonder what makes our leaders behave in a manner that prompts me to ask if it the pressures of office that tends to disorganise their mental fortitude or just that most of them are born foolish, right from their mothers' wombs.

In the first place, if a common and ordinary thinker like mansa musa would know that major global terrorism has been created either purposely or inadvertently by our so-called Western friends, the international community (our former slave owners and former colonisers). The West, for over half a century, created conditions and situations to anger some equally crazy people around the globe.

Now the serpents have turned, and instead of the greedy people from The West resolving the unsavoury manifestations of their own creations, they cleverly and cynically rope in other ignorant and sometimes willing idiots to join in to fight off the prevailing menaces, just as it happened during 1st and 2nd World Wars.

In WW2, my grandad, who was a young man, was whisked away to fight people who had not wronged him in far away places. Today, the same is happening in different ways. How on earth our West African governments who are bearing the brunt of the aftermath of that wicked and unnecessary Libya regime change episode, how can our leaders not see that the subtle, subtle but unrelenting intrusion on our lands by Europe and America, that our history and experience should be our better informants and best judgement. I end here. You may add yours. Thank you

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