What Ghanaians have come to regard and accept as politics is nothing more than a nauseating oddball of compulsive wishful thinking, neo-tribal conspiracies, delusional sycophancy and a sprinkling of deceitful religious narcosis.
Look over the horizon of over 50 years of our existence as a political entity and frankly decide for yourself whether Ghana has any real legacy indicative of masterstroke political brilliance or any historic landmark of economic ingenuity of any kind.
Ours has been a series of apologetic efforts and mediocre measures devoid of any discernible strategies.
Over the years, almost all the economic programmes initiated by successive governments in Ghana yielded little to no fruits because most of those so-called visions and policy documents were essentially a compilation of hopeless wishes and meaningless slogans jumbled together without any consideration of the prevailing economic reality.
Sadly, the expectations of many Ghanaians seem to be premised on the goodwill and generosity of fate and not on the quality of our decision making.
The whimsical utterances of some of our politicians do not inspire much confidence in their ability to provide solid leadership for the better Ghana that they promised to deliver.
The culture of utter disregard for quality scientific decision-making has reduced our national politics to a mere art of dishing out loads of empty promises to a population that sincerely thinks that a good wish is in itself sufficient for a good turn up of any event.
In this season of goodwill, my prayer is that our nation is released from this tendency of self-strangulating prevarication.
May 2010 bring a lasting change in the politics of our much endowed and beautiful land.
