YES, MANY AFRICAN POLITICIANS DO INDEED ENVY GHANA!

Massa, I found your article of 11th September, 2009 entitled: “Are Nigerian Ministers insecure and envious of Ghana?” that appeared in the general news web-page of www.ghanaweb.com a most interesting read. Sadly, Nigeria is not the only African nation amongst whose ruling elite one can find politicians who happen to envy Ghana. It is a widespread problem that exists in many nations all over Africa – and it exists wherever good governance is mostly absent and the ruling elite happen to be largely corrupt, brutal, and super-repressive.

Personally, I count my blessings every day that I am a Ghanaian – as I am pretty certain that an irreverent writer with trenchant views like mine would have been bumped off ages ago, if I lived elsewhere in Africa. The corrupt and repressive ones amongst the leadership of nations such as: Sudan, Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast, Togo, Niger, The Gambia, etc. etc. do indeed envy our country – and some of them are veritable sources of the many and varied powerful weaponry we see being deployed by criminals in the north of Ghana (who are largely responsible for the violence that erupts there from time to time).

Our secret services had better wake up to this latent threat to the stability of our nation – instead of constantly focusing on perceived political opponents of governments of day: as they are wont to do. One often wonders if they are even aware of the fact that the Ivorian soldiers in the northern part of the Ivory Coast, have used parts of the north of Ghana, for their rest-and-recreation for years – ever since they rebelled from the central government of that sister nation on our western border.

One certainly looks forward to the day when the Ghana Armed Forces will have at least four drones with cameras on board to monitor the borders of the landmass and territorial waters of our homeland Ghana, round the clock (and also take photographs of people rioting in all corners of our country – for the subsequent identification and prosecution of such lawless elements). A word to the wise…

Telephone (powered by Tigo – the one mobile phone network in Ghana that actually works!): + 233 (0) 27 745 3109 & the not-so-hot and clueless Vodafone wireless smartphone: + 233 (0) 21 976238.