Outsourcing your problems, I like to call it. There is nothing the Ghanaian likes more than to dump our troubles on daddy dearest up there to help us solve them.
As Africa’s extreme poverty and helplessness shows, God either doesn’t care or does not have any powers to help anybody; extreme faith notwithstanding.
Writing on his Facebook page, the Presidential Candidate of the Progressive People’s Party for the last elections and presumptive nominee for the next one, Papa Kwesi Nduom; wrote quite the lengthy prayer for Ghana.
He was picking on the words of President Mahama, who said God would choose a leader for Ghana.
Nduom did not necessarily disagree with that, but decided to list all the terrible leaderswho have ascended to power, but exonerated God for their ascendancy.
But if he agrees with President Mahama’s premise, that God chooses leaders; why exonerate God for the terrible ones?
“My Lord, I know you did not choose Bokassa, Iddi Amin, Jammeh, and others for Africa or Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and their type for the world.” He wrote.
“You my Lord God did not rain dumsor, poverty, corruption, HIPC, illiteracy or cholera on us. We did it to ourselves. Help us work to get rid of them.
“I know you were not in the line to vote for Rawlings in 1992 and 1996, Kufuor in 2000 and 2004, Atta-Mills in 2008, or Mahama in 2012. We the voters, human as we are did the voting.”
Despite all these spectacular failures on God’s part to guide choosing proper leaders in the past, as listed by Nduom himself, possibly including all four Presidents of our 4th Republic as well; Nduom implores God to get back to form for the 2016 elections.
And we know he’s had many successes as well.
“Teach our people to know that it is they who vote and that no free manna will fall from the heavens and that whom we give our vote to will determine our well-being on this earth.
“My Lord God, make our hearts pure and our minds fertile for the truth and help us make wise choices so that we can vote for leaders who will help us make excellent use of natural gifts you have put here on part of the world called Ghana.”
I’m assuming that wise choice points towards Nduom himself.
He raises some nice points, about how we are largely responsible for most of our failures. I agree: it’s the need to insert God into everything we do in this country that’s a little problematic.
And perhaps at the root of our problems as well.
Read his full ‘prayer’ below…