We will survive
Johnny, Host TV3, morning show “newday”, 6:07 am, 27.07.2017 is hopeful that Ghana will survive and that the three day prayer and fasting of his colleague will help to achieve that goal. The three Hosts hope that if not during their life-time, at least their children should live in a better Ghana. “This is Ghana…we move on!” said Bright with resignation and smile in his voice due to lack of an effective alternative.
Electoral Commission Boss Charlotte Osei in Parliament on 26.07.2017 testified about accounts of her EC organization and in camera about the Petition filed by 17 concerned members of the EC including her counter allegations against her Vice Commissioners. Whatever the outcome of the Chief Justice’s investigation will bring to light, the rift between the top management of this vital organization for the county is too deep to the extend, all Commissioners need to step down and give way for new people taking charge as they cannot cooperate anymore for the benefit of the country. While Democracies in the developed world took shape, such an occurrences was nowhere to be observed.
During this year’s election campaign for the General Elections in Kenya in August, it is estimated that the ruling party of Uhuru Kenyatta would have spent USD 50 Mio. for their election efforts, a country that pays to Member of Parliament each months in compensation each USD 10.000 (Kenya is a developing country!), more than an MP in the German Bundestag is entitled to receive. Everyone with sound mind has to raise the question how Uhuru Kenyatta and his party will be able to finance such a vast amount of money once possible back in office.
Still, Europe’s richest country and fourth in the world has no problem to send AID support to Kenya in which the former Prime Minister and opponent for the Presidency this year once had arrested Homosexuals and put them into prison for what they are even having studied for 8 good years himself at an East-German University to become an Engineer.
Togo is a country in the tied grip of a family with a sitting President that had violated the Constitution of the country by staying in office for a third time instead of only two periods. Speaking out once mind in Togo is attached to an arrest and hidden away in Lomé’s prisons. Calling from Accra to Lome costs three times more than Accra to Berlin as only one Telecom provider (from France) is allowed to offer its service based on a contract the former President had signed and taken his share of each year’s profit.
Madam Zille, former Major of Cape Town and granddaughter of a famous German (Berlin) painter had criticized the ANC by saying under the Colonial Masters the water supply and road situation in South Africa were much better than today only to be called to order for not promoting Colonialism. The underlining facts after all were not questioned by her critics. Voices inside the ANC for President Jacob Zuma to step down are silenced by massive protest of top ANC members.
On 26.07.2017 the third Minister of the newly formed Cabinet of Australia stepped down as he had found out, like the other two Ministers one week before, that he is holding dual citizenship not knowing that his mother on his behalf, but without him knowing, had applied for an Italian citizenship; while even he was born in Australia and had never been himself in Italy.
In South Sudan the President and Vice President have put the country on fire and earn good money from the civil war in their country with countless death and displaced people. Both own houses in Nairobi/Kenya in the same estate side by side. The Vice President is fighting the war in his own country from the comfort of his house in South Africa right now.
Central African Republic is in turmoil, Congo is in disarray, Somalia is not coming to rest, Mali is crying under the desert hardship and fights of tribes for independence (Tuareks), former The Gambia President, supported by Paris, is alleged to have stolen USD 50 Mio. from the public purse, President Buhari of Nigeria being out of his country this year for month with no end while the biggest country in Africa needs a strong President to manage the countries affairs, Zimbabwe’s population faces 90% unemployment with 2,5 Mio. people in danger to starve to death due to foreseeable and preventable draught effects.
The building of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was financed by the Chinese Government, even the statue of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah standing in front, the Presidency in Ghana (Flagstaff House) was a gift from the Indian Government. Africans: are you normal?
As long as Whites allow Africa to “survive” and not to live, the question must be raised whether Whites seriously have an interest to see Africa with no trouble and poverty as helpless onlookers…for the continent not to take over world politics but make it just “survive”. In 60 years to come Ghana and Nigeria will have a population of around 1 Billion citizen, while EU countries under 500 Mio. people. Based on the massive population coming alone the continent should take over…is that why Whites are in a cycle of making the same mistakes on the African continent ignoring the fact, that this Ostrich strategy will subsequently lead to the destruction of their own societies?
Author: Dipl.-Pol. Karl-Heinz Heerde, Sakumono, Tema West, Ghana, phone +233(0)265078287, karlheinzheerde@yahoo.de , 27.07.2017
PD Dipl.-Pol. Karl-Heinz Heerde (Political Scientist and Historian, Hamburg University 1980-1985), married to Alberta Heerde born Mensah, Ashanti from Kumasi with Ewe roots from Volta Region, Ghana, Entrepreneur and Author of several novels, the new constitution draft for Ghana and various Articles.
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