Dear God Almighty, bless our homeland Ghana, always. Have you noticed, O Lord, that in spite of the many problems our nation faces, our current president has left for yet another trip overseas - his 17th thus far, this year alone: and at a time when our nation is said by honest and independent-minded economists, to be virtually bankrupt (suffering from acute "debt distress" - to use the World Bank and IMF's euphemism!)?
Consequently, it is our prayer, O Lord God Almighty, that in the year 2009, you will give us a new president (unlike the current one!) who has not been infected by the super-dangerous wanderlust bug - and is in the mould of the late General Kutu Acheampong (of blessed memory!).
Like General Acheamong, may that new president be a hardworking leader - who will regard invitations to travel abroad from foreign powers seeking to enslave us yet again (but this time by stealth!), as a nuisance, a distraction from his or her job: and a complete waste of his or her time.
Please give us a new leader who will not regard as the prime indicator (of the presence in Ghana, of the concept) of good governance, the fact that his or her regime is constantly showered with the empty praises of self-seeking foreign powers, but rather because the whole world can see a real and tangible improvement in the quality of life of all the people of Ghana - not just the families and cronies of our rulers.
Oh Lord, is it not daft for foreign powers to regard a regime that is superintending the gradual engulfing of our whole nation by filth, as an example for the rest of Africa to follow?
How, O Lord, can they possibly regard the regime of a such a nation, whose priorities, rather than focusing on actually ridding our nation totally of filth (because they care about the quality of life of all Ghanaians), instead places emphasis on the use of scarce resources (and borrowed resources at that, too!) to the building of a luxury presidential palace complex and the purchasing of two presidential jets (and in one go, too, O Lord - to add insult to injury!), as the mark of a regime that practises good governance?
In the light of all the above, O, Lord God Almighty, let the new leader of our country regard an improvement in the living standards of all Ghanaians (not just the politically well-connected, such as the scions of the family clans of our rulers, their siblings, as well as the many youngish and delectable girlfriends of our rulers), as a "facts-on-the-ground" indicator that the regime he or she leads, does indeed practise the concept of good governance.
Let our new leader, O Lord, be a smart enough individual, who has self-belief in abundance enough, too, to treat the forked-tongue utterances of foreign powers, with all the contempt they deserve.
O, God Almighty, please open the eyes of the many "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" myrmidons in our nation (especially the uncouth kind that flock to make asinine comments on the web pages of www.ghanaweb.com!), who wear blinkers permanently: and thus cannot see the harm that their blind support of the self-serving positions and policies, of some of the members of our political class, does to our country - because they are too narrow-minded and too blind to see the truth.
Above all, O Almighty God, let our political class tell us the truth about the real state of nation's our economy today (particularly at a time when even the governments of the wealthiest nations of the world are openly acknowledging the fact that their economies are in - or nearly in - a recession).
For, O Lord, today, many independent-minded and discerning folk, keep telling those of us with ears to hear, that our country has finally been brought to its knees - because of the penchant for massive borrowing by the ruling regime, on the piranha-infested capital markets of the Western world.
A case in point being their inability to refinance the Ghana Telecom (GT) debt. That outrage, in which Iroko successfully inveigled GT, into getting it to issue corporate bonds in London on its behalf - because, according to the bush telegraph (not poor old me, I hasten to add!), some on the company's board got kickbacks from the fees Iroko earned in that transaction!
Just who in our country led Iroko to the corporate boardroom of Ghana Telecom, one wonders, O Lord? For many decent-minded Ghanaians, it still remains a mystery, why this regime curiously (and foolishly, their many critics, say!) assumed that debt when they sold a 70 per cent stake in GT, for a song, to foreigners.
Why O Lord, do you not find a way to make the former U.N.Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan our next president? Lord, you know we don't want the kind of leaders who toady to foreign powers and further their interests in our country, and even more annoyingly, are also the lackeys of those rapacious Western multi-national corporations.
O Lord, you know how principled and independent-minded Mr. Kofi Annan is - remember how he stood up to the war-mongering neo-conservatives (who have now finally succeeded in ruining that great nation, the United States of America!), in the U.N. debates that were a prelude to the Iraqi war?
Just yesterday, O Lord, that great and humble man, said that at the appropriate time, he would reveal the names of those who were behind the post-election ethnic-cleansing that occured in Kenya.
Dear Lord, can you imagine our current "Hypocrite-in-Chief" saying that he would arrest someone like that mass-murderer, the ever-sly and racist President Omar Bashir of Sudan - and hand him over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague?
Yet, that is precisely what the principled Mr. Kofi Annan says he will do in effect in the case of Kenya - because, to paraphrase him, society must not allow them to get away with their crimes against humanity, with impunity.
(Incidentally, O Lord, our current "Hypocrite-in-Chief" hosted that monster, President Omar Bashir, here, not too long ago, to the consternation of those of us who are appalled by the Sudanese leader's murderous campaign being carried out in Darfur, by his army and its allies the Janjaweed - a veritable 21st century pogrom of apocalyptic proportions, as you very well know, O Lord.)
Do we not deserve a principled man like Mr. Kofi Annan - after all our many years of suffering: at the hands of our selfish, largely clueless, greedy and corrupt political elite, as Ghana's new leader, O Lord?
Above all, O God Almighty, your servants who love mother Ghana, ask that you hear this humble prayer of theirs - made on a wing and a prayer, so to speak dear Lord!
Hmmm, Ghana - eyeaesm oo: asem ebaba debi ankassa! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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