So the president of Ghana took the shovel and helped empty gutters on the streets of Accra last weekend? Not bad if you ask me. I don’t trust politicians much but I live by the principle of leaders leading by example. So when it is a school Saturday, my students will attest to the fact that I clean with them, though I do not live in their dormitories with them. That way, even when I travel, they work without flaws. President Mahama’s mouth diarrhoea (promising many and mostly doing none) and his many catastrophic bad judgements leading to the country’s loss of huge sums of monies left most of us feeling indifferent towards his tenure. And I am not saying this, the frequent strikes and demonstrations should tell you I am not making this up. I think his cleaning and emptying of gutters actually spoke well of him.
It sent many messages across,” even I whom you respect (that is relative because many have lost that respect by the visit of need which came with his tenure) am draining gutters which stink in my quest to fight cholera, and this is even not my hood, so please do same and save your lives.” This is a mild and golden message.
” You’re very dirty and so you die of dirt only to blame the deaths on me, now I’m showing you how it is done, do it and leave me in peace.” Others may say he has nothing to do that is why he has turned into a gutter worker. Others may also say he is indirectly speaking to the cleaners under contract,” this is how you do it”, some may even think he is doing it for attention and to make himself worthier than Oko, the mayor, or he is doing it to tell the world that he is under Uncle Oko. Whatever it is, I think his participation must be commended.
He is a president whose citizens will eat gutter side food no matter the advertisement, what he can do is to help clean those gutters. So kudos to the cleaning president, I hope you not only clean the gutters, but you clean your team so we don’t have to see or hear of the judgement debt cases again.
(Picture from myjoyonline.com)
Mum Cee 