Good leadership ensures that all demographics within communities, enjoy good quality lives. Always. That is what the Liberian refugees in the Gomoa Buduburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, desperately need, now, as we speak. Sadly, for decades, they have been lumbered with bad leadership - resulting in never-ending-misery for them. Alas, it has now landed them in a dead-end-situation. Pity.
The Chiefs and Elders of Gomoa Fetteh (now thoroughly fed up with the unacceptable on-the-ground consequences, of decades old criminal activities, funded by the ruthless criminal-syndicates, which have profited mightily, for years, from the callous exploitation of the misery of the Liberian refugees in Camp Liberia), are up in arms, and are now demanding that the government demolishes Camp Liberia, within the next three months, failing which, they themselves will do so. Tragic.
As a committed pan-Africanist, I am aghast at the latest development in Camp Liberia. I was saddened, greatly, when I heard a tannoy-announcement, yesterday, appealing for ideas from the community, to help deal with the dead-end that years of bad leadership, has finally landed all the refugee-community-demographics, in the Gomoa Budumburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, today. Pity.
A little over three years ago, I gave a very simple business idea, to a number of individuals in Camp Liberia, whom I befriended. The idea was that Liberia's abundant coconut crop's value-chain, could be leveraged, and commercialised, to produce ecocoboards in small-scale factories, dotted along Liberia's entire coastline.
The caveat, was that it would make strategic sense, for the whole Liberian refugee community, to give the business idea to the government and people of Liberia, as a collective nation-building-gift, from them, to empower their country to enable it create a new green economic pillar, which would create wealth that stays locally, for a new cohort of green entrepreneurs, and jobs galore, for all who were willing to work hard in that country, to transform Liberia into a prosperous society.
Instead of listening to that humble advice, it rather ended up becoming a project idea that sundry self-seekers sought to grab for their families and friends. That was that. Then I came up with yet another social business idea, to empower females in Camp Liberia, in which a number of selected female entrepreneurs would partner the famous UK sanitary pad missionary, Amy Peake's Loving Humanity NGO, to build a sanitary pad factory in Camp Liberia.
Needless to say, the sly self-seekers amongst the community's leadership's ruinous-malevolence, then came into play, again, and I, who was giving Amy Peake ideas about how to fund the proposed project to build a sanitary pad (and incontinent pad) factory, in Camp Liberia, to empower women financially, was instead slandered, by worthless indivduals, and labelled a crook, who was under surveillance by Ghana's National Security apparatus, for allegedly using the name of Liberian refugees, to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars, from Amy Peake. Incredible. That was a big-fat-lie. No such defrauding had occurred. It was calumnious-nonsense on stilts.
Today, having led the Liberian refugees to a dead-end-situation, those selfsame selfish and greed-filled self-seekers, are now asking those they betrayed so egregiously (by callously exploiting their misery for personal gain for years), to provide them with ideas, to enable them resolve the crisis that has now arisen, and engulfed them, as a result of their breathtaking incompetence. Such is life. It is called the law of karma. Clueless-Losers. What the refugees in the Gomoa Buduburam Camp Liberia refugee settlement area, actually need now, is good and innovative leadership. Not fanciful pie-in-the-sky ideas. Simple. Period.
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