A Declaration Of Presidential Failures

By Samuel Adjei Sarfo
The President of Ghana, Dr. Atta Mills, has lost faith and credit with the citizens of this country because:
1. He has displayed weak-mindedness by engaging in crass superstition and surrounding himself with so-called spiritual men who have overpowered his mental faculties and turned him into their puppet.
2. He has displayed a psychological vulnerability hitherto unprecedented in the seat of government by subjecting his intellectual power to manipulative individuals who, because they know they can never be president, daily engage in schemes and intrigues designed to establish a rule by proxy through him.
4. He has allowed so-called foot soldiers and a motley crowd of no-gooders to run rampage in the country, subverting institutions and holding ransom officers of state, and when the people have complained, he has completely ignored them, creating the impression that he is fearful of these indisciplined individuals who daily hold our nation ransom.
3. He has acceded to power without any clue as to the nature of his power, nor the policies necessary to advance the nation forward. There is ample evidence that he has no plans to prosper the economy, to create employment, to promote education, to improve healthcare and to create opportunities for the eventual prosperity of the country.
4. He has allowed a parallel authority to be established to his sacred authority as a result of his political debt to some personalities who helped to bring him to power, accepting open challenge to his presidential powers from these notorious citizens who have openly and systematically engineered treasonable acts of brazen disrespect and resentment towards his excellent personhood.
5. He has shown that he did not prepare his mentality and faculty for the heavy responsibilities of a statesman, having failed since his inauguration as President, to articulate clear, comprehensive and definitive direction and vision for the country or to pursue such agenda as herein stated.
6. He has mortgaged his leadership to men who mistake justice for injustice, revenge for revolution, demolition for nation-building, men whose heads are filled with the bloody pogroms of the eighties; men who have had their chance in governance and failed; men who want to push the President to execute a vindictive agenda against former servants of state without due process of law, or in the alternative , to wreak mayhem in this country or destroy her image abroad.
7. He has depended on soothsayers, crystal gazers, ventriloquists, necromancers, mountebanks, raconteurs, clowns, pickpockets, vagabonds and tea-leaf readers as his spokespersons and advisors, spending his time in their infamous company and even submitting himself as a student of clairvoyance instead of devoting his time to the affairs of State.
And because he has done or omitted to do all the aforementioned thins, the nation is teetering to the edge of chaos, much to the satisfaction of evil protagonists and to the chagrin of true patriots. This is the problem with the president, and unless he strengthens himself and asserts his authority by ridding himself of hangers-on and injecting discipline and upholding relevant laws to curb subversive acts, this dear country of ours is in trouble.

Samuel Adjei Sarfo, Houston, Texas.