With Dr. Nduom As President Will Ghana Finally Get Effective Leadership?

Not too long ago, Sydney Casely-Hayford, one of the founders of the activist group, #OccupyGhana, was said to have stated that Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom, the leader and founder of the Progressive People's Party (PPP), is the best President Ghana will never have.

Well, Providence will have to make the impossible happen, then, for the sake of our homeland Ghana and all its people - for, at this juncture in our nation's history, Nduom will make a far better leader for our country, than either President Mahama has been, or Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo can ever hope to be.

He towers above both gentlemen, as a job-creator with a stellar track-record, and nurturer of profitable strategic businesses, which are all impacting society positively. Nduom's reaction to the new sugar factory at Komenda, speaks volumes about his suitability as Ghana's next leader.

Whiles others cynically seek to score brownie points, and play politics, with what is an important import-substitution agro-industrial undertaking, Nduom has quietly and without fanfare, bought land to plant sugarcane to supply the new Komenda sugar factory with - and is awaiting information and expert advice about the variety of sugarcane the factory will use for producing sugar, in order to start planting.

Is that not the kind of visionary leadership Ghana needs - and will all Ghanaians not benefit from his  leadership qualities if he is elected President? What beats living in a well-administered nation with a well-managed economy - led by a strict disciplinarian who truly has zero-tolerance for corruption and does not worship at the alter of the cult-of-the-mediocre?

And Nduom, of course, has said he will investigate all the regimes that have held power since the 4th Republic came into being - which is just what we need to retrieve all stolen taxpayers' money from the many high-ranking thieves who robbed Ghana blind, and sent their net worth to stratospheric heights, whiles holding important government positions, in the past.

Perhaps the question we must pose is: After nearly 24 years of sharing power between them, since the 4th Republic came into being, are Ghana's middle-classes going to allow the duopoly made up of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), and the largest of the opposition parties, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) - both of which actively sabotage  the nation-building effort, when in opposition - to have yet another opportunity to govern our country, and continue ruining Mother Ghana?

If elected to power again, will the NPP too not bring along its own small army of geniuses like the NDC's Bernard Allotey Jacobs, and his ilk, and make square-pegs-in-round-holes appointments, by putting them unto the boards of public entities - instead of appointing the  most qualified individuals best suited for those positions regardless of party affiliation: which is what a President Nduom would do?

Why continue supporting the same two political parties that daily pray for our homeland Ghana to retrogress when they find themselves in the political wilderness - and both of which are also beholden to the selfsame vested interests bleeding Mother Ghana dry?

Are they both not purpose-built to exploit our corrupt system by stealth - for which reason they can never publicly publish the sources of all their election campaign funds and state the amounts given by their 'donors'? Is the opaqueness about their campaign finances not the root-cause of high-level corruption in Ghana?

Was President Kufuor not receiving kickbacks at the Osu Castle, then the seat of governmnent - according to the then NPP chairperson, Haruna Esseku? And only heaven knows the sources from which the NDC obtains its election campaign's cash-mountains. Perhaps we must ponder  why that despicable mega-scoundrel, Woyome,  acts as if he actually deserves the GHc51 million he swindled Ghana out of. No?

For how long will middle-class Ghanaians continue to put up with the NDC/NPP duopoly's hypocrisy? The time has come for our country to be governed by a new leadership that is competent and incorruptible. We must end the Boss Tweed-style pork-barrel machine-politics of the corrupt NDC/NPP duopoly - and go for Singapore-style competent and incorruptible leadersdhip: by voting in Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom as President.

Just why do middle-class Ghanaians think that as we speak, the two parties that make up the NDC/NPP duopoly, have teams of high-powered, smoke-and-mirrors creative-accountants, working feverishly, day and night, to enable them finally present their audited Kweku-Ananse-accounts, to the Electoral Commission of Ghana? And to think that both parties still have the audacity to carry on as if it is their Divine right to take turns to rule Ghana. Hmm, eyeasem o. Asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa.

Furtheremore, is it not also obvious by now to middle-class Ghanaians, that both parties will never commit to publicly publishing the assets of their leading lights, including their candidates for presidential and parliamentary elections, and that of their spouses, before elections - and neither will they ever commit to a policy of such publicly-published asset declarations taking place immediately before the assumption of office of all ministers, and other high-office holders, and immediately after their tenures end?

Yet, that is the best and most effective means of ending high-level corruption by Ghana's ever-greedy vampire-elites, once and for all. So why should Ghanaians entrust either of those corrupt entities with power yet again? Are we so clueless? Will that not doom all of us this time round if we make such a grave error of judgement and vote for one of the presidential candidates of the NDC/NPP duopoly, to lead our country?

Lest we forget, Nduom published his filed tax returns and the sources of funding for his party, before the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections. That is why his election as President will bring about a sea-change in our nation's politics. We will have transparent and accountable leaders with a moral compass who will serve Mother Ghana faithfully - not scheme to rip her off.

And is it not patently clear  to middle-class Ghanaians by now that the NDC/NPP duopoly's  neo-liberal economic policies - judging by their disastrous results in the real world - are not helping the majority of ordinary people in our nation, despite their making sacrifice after sacrifice that politicians in power have called upon them to make, for the long-term benefit of their country? Are ordinary Ghanaians still not having to struggle daily to survive?

Both those discredited political parties - two sides of the same debased coin incidentally - have played fast and loose with taxpayers' money when in power in our country.

And to enable them continue with their profligate spending when in power, they have both resorted to piling on tax after tax on individuals and businesses - when the best real world solution to engendering continued economic growth is a low-tax regime.

Such a business-friendly policy can be made sustainable by tackling blatant white-collar super-thievery, eliminating the massive waste in the system, and by ending the rip-off of Mother Ghana by profiteering suppliers of goods and services, to the public-sector.

Sadly,  when in power, it never once crosses the minds of policymakers in the NDC/NPP duopoly that the most creative means of widening the tax net, and garnering more tax revenues, is by simply making Ghana the nation with world's lowest corporate tax rate,  and abolishing personal income tax.

What sensible businessperson in Ghana would evade taxes widely seen as reasonable and fair - because, set at 5 percent, they would be the world's lowest corporate tax rate? And with the abolition of personal income tax, why won't businesses and entrepreneurs from around the world, too, flock to Ghana? Will they all not pay the corporate tax rate set at just 5 percent?

Even when all forms of tax exemptions and tax holidays are abolished to compensate for lowering corporate tax rates, and abolishing personal income tax, it would still make Ghana one of the most hospitable business environments, anywhere on earth - and investors will be desirous of investing in our national economy.

Only a leader with the business nous and gumption of Nduom, would see the sense in such a move - for he has ample real-world experience that will enable him easily envision how such policies would empower businesses and entrepreneurs across Ghana.

Rather than thinking that the election of Nduom as President is an impossibility, the Sydney Casely-Hayfords must rather start thinking of how patriotic and discerning individuals like themselves, can  help to get the blinkers removed from the eyes of middle-class Ghanaians - to enable that key demographic see the imperative need for Ghana to be led by Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom after 7th January, 2017.

The Sydney Casely-Hayfords must also take it upon themselves, to make middle-class Ghanaians  understand clearly, why they must elect to voluntarily canvass young people throughout the country, to vote massively for Nduom, in the 7th November presidential election, rather than either of the candidates of the discredited NDC/NPP duopoly.

Nduom's leadership will secure the individual futures of educated young Ghanaians - because he will turn Ghana into a land of opportunity for all those willing to work hard to secure their own individual futures.

Mother Ghana deserves better leadership than the NDC/NPP duopoly  has provided our nation thus far. Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom is definitely the best person to lead Ghana after this November's presidential and parliamentary elections. Middle-class Ghanaians must volunteer to work with him to make that possible. Ghana will get competent, fair and effective leadership with Nduom as President. Definitely.