A governance expert says the collapse of seven local banks as well as illegal mining and the filth in the country are indications that Ghana has leadership challenge.
Lawyer Samel K. Ayim says the inactions of state institutions and regulators have caused these canker in the society.
The governance expert made the observations at the launch of Live2lead 2018, in Accra on Tuesday.
Live2Lead is a leadership development programme designed to deliver the very best leadership content to inspire and motivate leaders and their teams, help them connect with other influencers in the community and expand their business network with relationships that produce tangible results.
Live2Lead 2018 will be simulcast in more than 300 locations in over 30 countries on October 12, 2018. The Ghana event will take place at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Accra.
For more than 10-years, Live2Lead has been the summit of international thought leadership event and has developed and equipped thousands of leaders across the world to lead better and to add more value to their teams.
The theme for this year’s Live2Lead is “the SHIFT – addressing the shifts that leaders need to embrace in order to be successful and make the necessary impact”.
Mr. Ayim said “how do we explain the inaction and seeming complicity of state institutions and regulators while so-called professionals, bankers and their patrons and cronies drive our whole financial system into a ditch necessitating a near 12 billion Ghana Cedis bailout by the sweat of our poor farmers and ‘kayayos’ and ‘kayayeis”.
“The galamsey saga, the intensity of filth in our capital, the collapse of seven banks, the dehumanizing scenes in our hospitals all point to the need for a paradigm shift in the leadership construct that we have operated so far”, he explained.
Lawyer Ayim, who is also a banker said “with all our natural and human resource endowments, how do we explain the endemic poverty among the vast majority of our people while a few ‘create, loot and share’ the state coffers as if they are without conscience?”
He said “how do we explain treating our sick and vulnerable on bare concrete floors while our leaders fly abroad for medical treatment? How do we explain pregnant women being carried on chairs to cross flooded rivers to the nearest (or shall I say the farthest) medical centre and thereby losing their babies, just because we cannot construct simple bridges to facilitate transportation? Meanwhile, huge sums of money are squandered on ghost and uncompleted projects”.
Lawyer Ayim added, “how can we explain so-called men of God giving lotto numbers and magically conjuring cash while thousands of unsuspecting congregants, in their desperation and ignorance, flock to the so-called prophets as bees to honey, all in the name of God is still in the miracle business?”
He said the nation can enumerate several challenges but that should not be the way to go.
“The lamentations are endless. But we cannot continue like this. We need a drastic shift. We need a change, not only in mind set but also in ‘heart set’. Intellectually, we all know we are on the wrong path. What we need is the deep heart desire to change course”.
He noted that “as a commitment to reverse the trend, we need a new form of leadership across all segments of our society. We need a value-based transformational leadership”.
“We need to agree, adopt and inculcate values at all levels of our national life that will help transform our nation for the better. Yes, we can debate and agree or disagree on the values”.
Lawyer Ayim further noted, “we need a new Ghanaian, a new Ghanaian leader, who is ready to stand for truth, honesty, hard work, humility, wise planning, common sense, self-discipline (self-leadership) and generosity by which I mean the love and care for the followers rather than the selfish pursuit of personal, family and friends gains at the expense of the corporate or national interests”.
By Kweku Antwi-Otoo|3news.com|Ghana
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