
I LAMENT THE COMPLETE LACK OF PEOPLE CENTERED LEADERSHIP IN OUR PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT!I weep for my land and weep for its people ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ðŸ˜.
Once again Walewale is in the news. In the news for another derisive incident,- in which our poor and helpless mothers, sisters and daughters are trapped in between locked down cities of Kumasi and Accra,- consequent to their attempt to avoid the hardship of the lockdown in Accra.
These are the very people who were mobilized and paraded before the global cameras in Kumasi during this year’s Independence day celebration, to fake excitement and satisfaction with a government that is purported to be their own. As they marched anyone affiliated with Northern Ghana ought to have noticed the explicit and pejorative display of our ‘nothingness’.
Now here again for us to contend with is this story of stranded ‘kayayees’ with a tag of Walewale. So, no one in government remembered them the moments prior to the lockdown, as they were remembered for the 6th march? Leadership is not merely possession of power and affluence, it entails the proactive contemplation of people’s welfare, positive manipulation of the social world, and utilization of influence to have things done orderly. If anyone of our leaders in government had an iota of- people-centered mindset; small concern for the appalling predicament of our people; people-centered leadership would have in this particular case at least thought of the consequences of the lockdown on the ‘kayayee’.
Somebody, particularly the veep and minister of local government, knowledgeable about government plans for the lockdown, needed to be proactive and put a scheme in place to cater for the kayayee prior to the lockdown.