“So if we can’t govern a country in truth, then what are we doing?” Nana Kobina Nketsia V angry

• Posted on November 1, 2013November 1, 2013
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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The Paramount Chief of Essikado Traditional Area, in the Western Region, Nana Kobina Nketsia V, has called for a revolution in the consciousness of Ghanaians to deal with what he describes as a bunch of “vampires who are feeding fat” on the country’s resources. 

Nana Kobina Nketsia V was speaking at a public lecture organized by the Western Regional Branch of the Old Vandals Association on the theme “Mining and Development: the perspectives of the Western Region.”

“We need a revolution in this country, and unless we can do that, what is happening will keep on happening and we won’t have any future because we’ve reached a point in our country where people try to lie to make profit,” he said.

The paramount chief narrated an incident he witnessed to explain his position. 

“I saw a fleet of V8s tooting their horns. About four of them were empty, speeding on the road. I looked at them and you can see my wealth being drained up by very stupid people who I’m more intelligent than, you are more intelligent than them. We pay them, we elect them to serve us and they come and sit on us. And you are busy dividing yourself into NDC and NPP, for what? I am a Vandal and a Ghanaian and it matters much more than all these things that are going around”.

He expressed his disappointment in the inability of Ghanaian’s to deal with with corruption without partisan political colouration.

“When somebody is corrupt, you find one party defending him, and another party says no. Why, even corruption we can’t get the mind that this is bad and so we should not do it? So if we can’t govern a country in truth, then what are we doing? And this has been going on for too long,” he stated.

Nana Kobina Nketsia’s comments comes in the wake of various reports on corrupt deals between public officials and private companies with the recent one being the GRA/Subah scandal in which the Ghana Revenue Authority allegedly paid almost GH¢144 million to Subah Infosolutions LTD, for no work done.

He also lamented over the level of development in the Western Region in the midst of vast natural resources.

“I went to school free. What have I done to Ghana? Have I joined the bunch of brats, the bunch of vampires who are feeding fat on this country? When you see my eyes red, they are as red as the flag of the vandals. In the whole of the Western Region, there are no motorable roads. Yet we sit down and say that the Western Region is the richest, richest in what? Poverty,” he asked.

According to him, the Western Region has the kind of resources that Africans can use to develop and become the hub of development for the whole of the West African sub-region. 

“Japan has no gold or oil, we have the gold and yet we say we are poor. Who are we? What did we go to school for? … you need to be angry with your country in order to put it right. You need this revolution in consciousness,” he lamented.

-Mawuli Tsikata