For the lack of good leadership, we suffer. Forest suffers and environment suffer. Can we eat gold?

Our legendary docility towards smiling foreigners has forever made us the soft-touch of all human races.

Not all that glitters is enough for Ghana. For the lack of good leadership, we suffer... mansa musa writes ✍️ small one.

We destroy our forest belts and then travel to land's end in large numbers to go discuss climate change..

Ghana is supposed to be an oil producing country, yet our politicians are already promising a solar replacement for our energy needs. This is because during the initial contract negotiations, our leaders signed away huge profits from our oil earnings to foreigners. As a result, while politicians elsewhere are promising citizens more licenses to drill for oil, our leadership sees little value in ours.

Not much is coming to us by way of profits shares, so we've lost interest. Just like all our God-given valuables, we are preparing to give it up or give majority ownership to foreigners. Tell me, which other oil producing country is in a hurry to replace their source of hefty income with another technology that they don't produce. We are not clever one little bit.

No other oil producing country in the world is in such a hurry to replace gas petrol and diesel. But we are so brain weak(I don't want to say we are brain dead. Otherwise, we couldn't walk) that our own natural wealth gets taken away with that customary ease. _Our legendary docility towards smiling foreigners has forever made us the soft touches of the human races._ Our share of the oil profits is so little that our leaders think it is better to abandon it quickly and then go to acquire technology that will be out of our control for many generations to come.

For climate change reasons, the political talk is about the need for solar energy, while no efforts are being made to address the unmitigated wanton destruction of greenbelts and virgin lands. Over 50 forest reserves have been destroyed by members of the governing party, including chairman wontumi, Kate Gyamfua, and others all, for their el dorado style greed and quest for wealth, not by legal means but through every way dangerous and diabolic. While authorities look on. Party fuo hia sika.

The irony is that in those countries where the solar panels are manufactured, one can not cut a tree branch without prior authorisation. Isn't it a shame that we senselessly destroy our habitats then would follow the rest of world society to cry foul about deteriorating weather patterns of too much rain, too much sunshine, and too much dryness.

Our behaviour explains our inferior natural makeup. Our senses and sensibilities, our collective ability for critical thinking do not match what others have. Now, as it stands, the destruction is not limited to just virgin lands. It is public knowledge that even open spaces in towns and villages in Ghana have now become mining sites. Against this sorrowful backdrop, members of the current ruling party are on campaign rounds promising to do in future what they have failed to do now. What a country! Fantastic!

Conclusion: For lack quality leadership, we are in a mess, a right mighty stinking mess.