Bravo, Opanin! What the masters of the universe now in charge of our homeland Ghana are practising, is the 19th century "robber baron" version of capitalism - which has long since been discarded by even its originators!
Today, a powerful few with greedy ambitions, are busy gang-raping mother Ghana with total impunity - whiles the "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" myrmidons, foolishly applaud them from the sidelines: too blind to see that our country is being shortchanged on a massive scale.
Take a close look at the bulk of the infrastructure our leaders boast so much about, for example. You will be shocked - for, they are mostly badly-designed and badly-built publicly-owned structures, that are fast-deteriorating, even as we speak.
Why, you might ask? Well, because they had to be shoddily-constructed, as the 10 per cent kickbacks had to be factored in - by those who won contracts to build them.
It is such a pity that those whom we trusted to set new standards in morality in our public life and amongst our nation's leadership, when they had the historic opportunity to do so in January 2001, have let decent and independent-minded Ghanaians down, so badly.
Sadly, there are so many individuals in our country now, who are very much like the mythical Ghanaian three monkeys: they see no evil going on today; hear no evil going on today; and smell no evil going on today. So we are all pretending that Ghana is in its golden age.
Meanwhile, as disparities in wealth widens evermore to become the widest they have ever been at any time in our nation's history, typical Ghanaian sycophancy has ensured that practically no one outside the partisan sections of society, is pointing out the fact that today's crowd in power in our country, are really no different from yesterday's crowd - who once ruled our country, with a rod of iron.
Thus, there is no one making the point today, to ordinary people that as a nation, we ought to demand that those running for the presidency, clearly tell Ghanaians about their vision of the kind of society they want to see built in our country, when they win the December 2008 election.
Clearly, precious few Ghanaians want to see a continuation of the unparallelled selfishness and greed for money, that has eroded the gains of the past, and led to a fall in the quality of life of ordinary people.
We have all wringed our hands helplessly in despair - as our nation is slowly engulfed by the filth piling up across our country in countless Ghanaian towns and cities: because our leaders are too busy feathering their own nests, to care.
Nothing has changed for ordinary people - it is only the lives of our leaders, who can now raise billions to campaign for the right to represent their party as its presidential candidate, which have undergone the most amazing of transformations.
Men, whom we all knew only a few years ago, were up to their necks in debt, whiles in the political wilderness, are now apparently even US dollar multi-millionaires - if the usually pretty reliable "bush telegraph" is to be believed! Hmmm, Ghana - asem ebaba debi ankasa!
Sadly, a majority of the hacks in our media houses, many of whom have sold their consciences to the highest bidders and are in the pockets of our political class, are also currently busy playing the "comparison" game on their paymasters' behalf - in the columns of our newspapers and on the airwaves: hopping from FM radio station to FM radio station.
Yet, they are supposed to be the fourth branch of government - society's watchdogs: who unfortunately have now become regime guard-dogs and apologists for the spineless opposition political parties.
Hmmm, Ghana - ayeasem oo. Well, thanks be to God, that there are many patriotic Ghanaians, who in the final analysis, are willing to sacrifice their lives if need be, to bring the 4th Republic (a creature designed specifically to protect and allow those who overthrew the 3rd Republic to get away with treason - and to ensure that they successfully morphed from soldiers into civilian leaders in 1992!), to a crashing end: by campaigning for that to happen, in 2013 and inaugurate a new 5th Republic, should they win that particular election.
It will be an era in which only honest people will be allowed to run for office. We shall also make the separation of powers meaningful: by ensuring that no member of the legislature is a member of the executive; funding of the legislature; the judiciary and all the anti-corruption bodies and organisations are funded from the consolidated fund. Our leaders and their spouses will be obliged to publicly publish all their assets, before and after entering office.
Naturally, any of those who overthrew the 3rd Republic still alive then, will be tried and sentenced to jail for life. It is so important that we make the point to all future adventurers of that ilk, that overthrowing democratically elected regimes will have painful consequences for all those who do so: no matter how long they get away with their crime against humanity.
Only the two political traditions in Ghana, Nkrumaists and the Busia-Danquah group, will be permitted in Ghana - and they will both be funded by the state - to prevent their leaders from resorting to collecting kickbacks from the seat of power in our country (wherever that might be, at that time!).
We shall also ensure that our oil and natural gas revenues are used for the sole purpose of transforming Ghanaian society into Africa's equivalent, of the Scandinavian social model. Ghana's oil and gas industries will be nationalised. We will also ensure that fair compensation is paid to all the foreign oil companies - by issuing them Ghanain sovereign bonds, not cash: as we are not fools!
Some of us are even prepared to die to ensure that not even a pesewa of that gift form providence to ordinary Ghanaians, ends up in the offshore bank accounts of the more dishonest and greedy members, of our ruling elite! Hmmm, Ghana - asem ebaba debi ankasa!
May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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