A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) says the change in leadership has brought sanity on the airwaves.
Professor Stephen Adei observed with amazement that the last two public utterances of President John Dramani Mahama after his defeat in the December 7 polls have been "very presidential."
“Even before we see the installation of a new president, the atmosphere has become better,” he told Joy FM Tuesday. The educationist said when new leaders take office, they do not need to continue with attitudes exhibited by the previous leaders.
He said they are responsible for giving a new vision to the entity by modelling a new set of culture to change the current one. Names of potential ministers have been put out with four days to the inauguration of President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
The President-elect has announced Professor Frimpong Boateng as his Environment and Science to be. He has also done same for Alan Kyerematen as the incoming Trade Minister.
But Professor Adei has cautioned the incoming government to be wary of the Ghanaian culture where subordinates initially kowtow to demands of the new leader only to change later. He stressed that his experience has shown that once a leader has integrity, competence, and care for the people they would know the person is all business.
"They [appointees] know that you are prepared to take the hard decisions. Even the worst Ghanaians start conforming; they would try to undermine you...especially if you are a minister, they would malign you for you to be moved," he said.
Prof Adei says he is looking forward to a President who would be a person of integrity, adding that leadership is a cause and everything else is the effect.
He said Ghana has had a bad history with corruption, arrogance, and impunity being exhibited by government officials. Ghanaians are used to such behaviors, he said, stressing a lot of things are changing.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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I beg to differ Kojo and Prof. Adei. I think we are not attacking the root of the issue. I may sound tribalistic or ethnicist, but spare me a moment. Those noises were hard on the airwaves because the Leader is not from our tribe and we MUST do everything we can, whether fair or foul, to bring him down. Now that the mission has been accomplished, no need to make noise again. Which politician campaigns after winning an election? Let's be careful!!
What do you expect it to be now? They are all going to organise and come back. Those who are looking for post now (job for the boys) and those who lost theirs and nursing their hurts. Give them at most 6months.
I have the same view, for the past 3weeks there's sanity on our airways, and a feeling of hope,patrotism and expectations are all over the place.Never again will Ghanaians allow ***barred word***,corrupt,uncultured babies with sharp teeth and greedy bastards to rule. Long live Nana Addo,and God bless our homeland Ghana.