Dictatorship Is The Best Form Of Government For Developing Nations

Instead of making this paper about daily life clichés of what most people believe in. I decided to write about something that has always bothered me but I never had a chance to address it through the years. Having grown up in a developing nation, I have always realized the system of government did not work. Whiles nations like USA, Netherlands, and England have always used Ghana as an example of working democracy in the African continent, I for one does not think the system worked. I have always believed that dictatorship is the best form of governance for developing nations.

Democracy does not put food on the table for my family, democracy does not my pay bills, democracy does not build roads and infrastructure. Meanwhile a nation like Libya that did not have democracy in the day of Muamar Gaddafi had free schools, free healthcare system, good roads, schools and hospitals. There are still students in Ghana that have their classrooms under trees; which means school is cancelled whenever the wind blows too hard or it rains. Is this what democracy is about?

I define democracy in developing nation as rich people taking turns in robbing a nation every four years. Ministers of state, ambassador, members of parliaments in developing nations are just thieves who ditch ski-masks and guns for suits and mass appeal – so is the president and the first lady. As a matter of fact there is no president in Ghana. I refer to him as the “Incognito Dictators”. A leader who steals from the nation and save it abroad. A leader who is protected by the law called “Indemnity Clause” which turns him to a god (since he cannot be sued till ten years after his presidency). These are the stupid laws protecting these leaders.

Few days ago the president of the United States made a statement about immigration which angered most republicans and they have decided to file a lawsuit against the president of the United States. I thought this is awesome since I have not seen anyone challenged a sitting president in Ghana, EVER! No matter how bad his decision on a matter is, the whole stays numb as “zombies”.

All the majority and minority in parliament does not care, all they think of is how to make a quick cash out of the policy the government is making. Out of all the bad decisions I have heard in my entire life made by the presidents of Ghana, I cannot count how many times I wished someone killed the president while he made those decisions that affected the nation negatively. It may sound harsh but how would you feel if president made a decision that would kill your family business forever due to his own mismanagement?

I grew up in a gold mining town in southern Ghana where the mining company employed over 20,000 people, they government mismanaged the resources and as of last year it only had a thousand workers. A few months ago, it was announced that the mining company was shutting down. The whole town is dismayed by the shutting down of the company which has been in the town for over several decades.

If that does not convince you I am sure this would: Having to pay through school by myself through high school and now college, I met people from Ghana living in Virginia and New Jersey, who are neither student nor trying to be but are on forty thousand student dollars a year scholarship from the government of Ghana. They get this money paid to their account yearly meanwhile they are not in school, while Ghanaians nationals studying abroad do not receive a penny from the government. All of the people that receive this cash amount from the government are sons and daughter of ministers of state high profile politicians in Ghana.

Foreign nationals in the United States especially Saudis, Iranians and Libyan all have their fees paid for by their government and also receive at least $2000 allowance from their government monthly. They never have to struggle through college as most Africans do. For me to work in my home country after graduation, I will demand the government of Ghana pay off my student loan debt, I know he would not, that will make me stay and innovate the United States –yet they wonder why Africa is so undeveloped.

Sometimes I agree with Dr. Sheldon Cooper on what he thinks a perfect world would be; a microchip that blows your brains out whenever you think of something stupid. If that was the case, the current president of Ghana, his family and his ministers would have had their mind blown a “kabillion” times. Rich people in Ghana feel no need to push for better governance, since they make money off the nation's mismanagement.

If I was rich as them it would consider paying couple of guys hefty amount of money to torture sense into the president's mind. I know violence is not the answer but with this level of stupidity and mismanagement, violence may lead to the answer.