To Ensure Economic Development We Need Local Democracy At The Grassroots Level - Not More Regions To Be Looted By Our Vampire-Elites

There is no question that many of those agitating for the creation of new regions are sincere in the ends they seek - and genuinely believe it will speed up economic development in the areas they hail from.

Unfortunately, the plain truth is that the most effective way to speed up economic development across Ghana, is to bring democracy to the doorsteps of people at the grassroots level - by electing chief executives and assembly members of metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies nationwide on a party basis: as is done at the national level.

The question is: Why, when electing DCEs and assembly members will make them focus on being responsive to the needs and concerns of local people, are members of our mostly-sly rent-seeking political class so determined to create yet more regions - and create opportunities for another layer of high-level corruption and sundry avenues for white-collar crimes to be added to our byzantine system? Hmm, Oman Ghana, eyeasem o.

To understand the dangerous path some - a number with hidden tribal-supremacist agendas of their own - want our homeland Ghana to embark on, we must go back to the days of the struggle for independence in the Gold Coast.

It is no accident that the most vociferous of the advocates for the creation of new regions are Chiefs and their lackeys in the worlds of politics and journalism in our country. Chiefs, by definition, are tribal-supremacists - and their palaces (all of them bar none veritable nests of vipers) remain the bastions of tribalism in today's Ghana.

It was the same during the struggle for independence: The dream of the descendants of the pre-colonial ruling elites was to replace the Gold Coast colony with an independent federal state consisting of the pre-colonial tribal states - which they would permanently dominate.

The ordinary people at that time roundly rejected that vision in the elections of 1951, 1954 and 1956 - refusing to become the slaves of a ruling elite who were the beneficiaries of inherited privelege: and consistently voted for Nkrumah's bold and modern vision of a unitary African state that would be a meritocratic-democracy in which there would be social mobility and in which universal adult suffrage would ensure that the masses could elect the nation's leaders at all material times.

The ordinary Ghanaians of today must not allow themselves to be deceived into voting for the creation of more regions and unravel the cohesion of our country - when the solution to economic development at the local level is simply to bring democracy to local people: by electing DCEs and assemblymen and women in free and fair elections in which candidates of all the political parties and independent candidates can participate.

In a nation in which wealthy and powerful thieves-in-high-places dominate society and ruthlessly exploit Mother Ghana, what we need to ensure economic development at the grassroots level, is local democracy - not the creation of yet more regions to be looted by our selfish and greedy vampire-elites. Haaba.