WILL PRESIDENT MILLS COME TO RUE THE DAY HE FIRED MARTIN AMIDU?

There must have come a precise moment, when fallen leaders like former Tunisian leader Ben Ali, Egypt's Mubarak and Libya's Gaddafi, realised that their miscalculation had made them lose everything - and resulted in their finally being ousted from power, by the very masses, who for decades, had so feared them.

What goes through the human mind at such moments, one wonders? Would spurned advice to take a different course, offered by a brave-hearted lowly aide, in the midst of their regime's existentialist crisis, at great personal risk (for boldly telling a ruthless leader, under siege and wielding unfettered power, the bitter truth - instead of following the path of sycophants: and telling the leader only what he felt he wanted to hear), come to the fore, at such an end-game moment - because exactly what it predicted would occur, if the great leader persisted, had indeed occurred: leading to such catastrophic results?

Perhaps at such a low point, when all is lost, each one of those North African Arab leaders, must have wished they had not taken so many things in their privileged existence, for granted - and that they had frequently reminded themselves of that old wise saying, "No condition is permanent": and consequently been less inflexible whiles in power?

Will President Mills and those around him, who miscalculated so terribly, in not leaving Martin Amidu alone, to deal with those who he said were committing gargantuan crimes against Ghanaians, and allow his efforts in that direction to reach its logical conclusion, also have their Ben Ali-Mubarak-Gaddafi-moment, one day in the not too distant future?

At that point, will they wish they had not taken the Emperor-with-no-clothes approach, in firing Amidu - and at the same time trying to square that with their claims that unlike Kufuor & Co., they were indeed committed to fighting corruption in Ghana?

Will the firing of Martin Amidu, mark the point when the beginning of the end came, for President Mills and the self-seeking cynics around him - who have profited so mightily from their association with his presidency?

Alas, if even those of us, who until yesterday, hailed him as the most honest and principled individual to lead Ghana, since the overthrow of Nkrumah in 1966, have lost all hope in him, and now want our nation and his party to be rid of him quickly, what hope has he, I ask?

In a nation in which altruistic individuals are few and far between, unlike those who profit materially from his presidency, and almost always give him interested advice, I have never sought to benefit materially from Mills' presidency - just as I never sought to benefit materially from Kufuor & Co. - so for the sake of our nation, I proffer him only disinterested advice: he must step down honourably now, to enable his party re-invent itself in time - using President Rawlings' guidelines - to enable it defeat the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the December polls.

If truth be told, Mills and those who counselled him to fire Martin Amidu, have dug their own political graves - it was a terrible miscalculation, and a grave error of judgement. And as sure as day follows night, they will come to rue the events of 19th January 2012.

Tel (Powered by Tigo - the one mobile phone network in Ghana that actually works!): + 233 (0) 27 745 3109.