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�Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?�- which means, �My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?�- Matthew 27:46. �A crisis that reoccurs a second time is a crisis that must not occur again. A well-managed plant, I soon learned is a quiet place. A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine�- Peter Drucker. Ghana at 56 is a big laughing joke and yet some organisations and individuals had the audacity to post advertisements in the national media congratulating the nation. Look at Singapore. Look at Malaysia. Look at South Korea. These are all countries Ghana either started life before them or around the same time. Wonders will never end. Those advertisers should have taken a cue from the latest gloomy budget read to parliament to have canceled their adverts. Today, Ghana is slowly but surely moving into becoming a failed state. No constant supply of electricity. The �treated� water we drink smells and tastes very badly. Nobody can plan his or her life. All these have resulted from the unbridled and unsustainable greed of its leaders at all levels and in every field of human endeavour from the political to the secular to the evangelical to the academic to the traditional to labour unions, name it. Even labour leaders are abusing the trust imposed in them by their lowly placed followers and selling the interest of the employees to their employers and the political establishment. Not too surprisingly, today all the magicians or �crofessors� of old have all disappeared into thin air and metamorphosed or resurfaced as evangelists, prophets, founders and presiding bishops of all kinds of religious organisations with such outlandish names; it is intuitive to ponder whether there is a competition going on in the selection of names for these mushrooming religious organisations. The greed cuts across every segment of the society despite the massive ballooning in religious activities and the unacceptable high level of productive time spent by the citizens on religious services and activities day in day out. The greed to take advantage of the political institution to gain maximum advantage in the unbridled quest for undeserved and unearned filthy wealth, all at the expense of the state, moves the greedy bastards on in an unhealthy competition, as if the competition is for the last position in heaven. It is so massive and compelling that even persons of the ecclesiastical devotion have not escaped the temptation of joining the conveyor belt of sociological concomitants of sycophancy, bootlicking and praise singing which have been choreographed by our traditional rulers manifested in the continuous and constant visit to the presidential villa to pay obeisance to the current political usurpers sitting on borrowed throne. How persons expected to be role models for the unfortunate of the society and the youth and others seeking salvation can overtly and covertly associate themselves with leadership of a political regime which stole state funds to come into existence and win itself into political power and continues to use state funds to prosecute its unholy agenda and whose continued legitimacy is a subject of Supreme Court dispute, is mindboggling. It saddens me to see that some citizens of the society who should under normal circumstances act as role models are rushing to or lobbying for positions or having photo sessions with these political usurpers. Many of these people have already lived a full life or already living a life of unimaginable comfort, finished looking after their children, acquired respectable amount of properties, live on decent pensions and should be spending their time writing their memoirs. Yet they appear to be the most guilty ones. Ghana? We can never make it, forget it. Period. This is a country without dedicated, patriotic, competent and visionary leadership prepared to offer accountability for their office. There are too many criminals in responsible positions and positions of trust in this country to make this country work. In a political system where the seat of government is itself the epicentre of the corruption industry with unprecedented gargantuan corruption earthquakes, Woyomegate fashion, occurring unceasingly and registering close to the magical figure of ten on the Richter scale, it will require the second coming of the arch angels to descend from their heavenly throne to sweep away those charlatans before salvation can reign and sanity restored. You name it, no sector of the society has escaped from this canker of corruption, incompetence and lack of integrity and accountability in national life of office holders. The nation has become one big punching punch bag used by the greedy parasites in charge of national affairs to test their evil strength in indulging in corruption and looting of state resources. Oh Merciful and Ever Gracious Allah, what sins did we commit as a nation to be managed by a political system composed of characters the founder of the system describe as greedy bastards and thieves? Why have some people sold their education, self-respect, family names and conscience for a calabash of palm wine to other persons no better than themselves but whose only claim to respectability is that they are crooked enough to use state resources to achieve political power? What would it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his soul? Thou fool, your soul is required of thee tonight. A fool has indeed said in his heart there is no God. Yesterday, a monarch he; today subject of the flees. Why such boastings, oh man! Today, the nation has awoken up to a new breed of political philosophers who are completely out of tune with the political realities on the ground. These persons are well-connected in the society. They could do well and serve society better by keeping their mouths shut at this time when the nation is mourning an upgraded edition of the Stolen Verdict, instead of throwing monkey winches into the current legal battle going on in the Supreme Court. They constantly use their exalted positions in society and illegitimate claims of belonging to the NPP to distract attention from the core reasons for the Supreme Court action. With friends like these offering unsolicited advice to the NPP leadership on open political platforms, the NPP and the nation of right thinking citizens do not need enemies thrown into their midst. What they fail to realize is that it is not the NPP against the NDC and the Electoral Commission. It is a legitimate battle to assert the rights of the citizens to a democratic sanity, the right to clean up a rotten electoral system, the right to decide the people who should legitimately manage the affairs of the nation state, the right to uproot acts of impunity from our society, the right to send stealers and usurpers into the dustbin of history and the hottest part of hell so that the nation state can be cleansed and saved from another episode of Noah�s Ark or Sodom and Gomorrah. Acceptance of the December 2012 election results as declared by the Electoral Commission will instantly mean legitimisation of one party state, the imposition of the rule of jungle and the ultimate invitation of chaos and violence and their attendant unbearable consequence. Once we accept the results of the December 2012 elections as declared by the Electoral Commission, everybody should forget our democratic dispensation and forget about any future elections. What this country needs at this time is united devotion to the course of justice and not the utterances of self-seeking individuals whose real motives are shrouded in undefined agenda and secrecy. Even in the brutal sport of boxing, you do not hit your opponent when he is on the ground. So let the so-called friends of the democratic principles whose real motives appear to gather sympathy for the sinking NDC political machinery to save us from inflicting brutal punches on the psychic of the populace and kicking the good people of this country in the groin when spirits are down. We can do without their rabblerousing. Today, the fact that agents of the Electoral Commission have been caught pants down in various parts of the country in their unguided attempts to manufacture and falsify evidence, a criminal act, and the fact that the NDC has seen the wisdom to surreptitiously distance itself from the Electoral Commission, is a pointer to the fact that only an intervention of unprecedented gargantuan of satanic proportion can save the present NDC regime from massive judicial defeat at the Supreme Court. Falsification of court evidence is not only a crime but also an acceptance of guilt. Running away from the scene of crime is also an acceptance of guilt. The Electoral Commission has been caught in these two unholy acts by the acts of its agents. What other evidence does the Supreme Court need to pronounce judgment? The fact that the Electoral Commission stands disgraced is only a matter of time. The fact that the usurpers will be removed from the throne is only a matter of time. The Electoral Commission and the NDC have suddenly realized that the decision of the Supreme Court case would be quantitatively based and therefore objective measures would be used and not qualitatively based, thereby leaving little room for subjectivity.