Ghanaian Hip-hop
recording artist, Michael Owusu Addo professionally known as Sarkodie has
slammed the Ghanaian government for lacking discipline, commitment, and
resilience in their leadership.
According to
him, Ghana has a lot of great minds who have proven in their own way how they
can make something out of nothing with little resources and maintain it for a
long period of time hence such people deserve to be empowered.
Sarkodie made
these comments in response to a video analyzing why Ghana's first president,
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, was ousted from power
The said video
captured thoughts shared in Nkrumah’s book, ‘Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of
imperialism’, published in 1965 which among others, espoused that “the
result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation
rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world.
Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap
between the rich and the poor countries of the world…”
“Neo-colonialism
is based upon the principle of breaking up former large united colonial
territories into a number of small non-viable States which are incapable of
independent development and must rely upon the former imperial power for
defence and even internal security. Their economic and financial systems are
linked, as in colonial days, with those of the former colonial ruler.”
Commenting on
the video, Sarkodie praised Nkrumah for his selflessness and called on current
leaders to follow his example.
"Typical
politicians are trained not to build anything but just to fulfill political
ambitions (just win power) … About time we check the track records of the
leaders we give power to. The discipline, commitment, and resilience needed in
a leader cannot be overlooked.
"We have
a lot of great minds in this country who have proven in their own way how they
can make something out of nothing with little resources and maintain it for a
long period of time. Such people deserve to be empowered.
"We
can’t sit on all these resources and always sit humbly in front of other
foreigners (with not that much resources) asking for help. At this point we
should be talking collaborations only and still maintain ownership (100%).
"When
you don’t want to be responsible, you should be fine with outsiders telling you
what to do."
SOURCE: PULSE.COM.GH
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