Sekou dares Mahama to show focus

Dr Sekou Nkrumah, son of Ghana’s first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah has challenged President John Mahama to show his strong side as a leader.

“I think in an interview…one of the things he [Mr Mahama] said was that although he is a cool nice guy, he had a bit of a temper and so on, and so he can be–let me put it this way–strong if he wants to but unfortunately I have not seen it and many people have not seen it so maybe he needs to show us that part of him,” Dr Nkrumah told Morning Starr’s Kafui Dey on Starr 103.5FM.

This is not the first time that Dr Nkrumah has charged President Mahama to show some toughness as a leader. In October 2013, he said Mr Mahama and the governing National Democratic Congress has been in first gear since 2009 and will continue to be in first gear till 2016 if President John Mahama did not get radical.

According to him, unless President John Mahama adopts transformational methods to fast-track the vehicle of governance, the status quo will persist.

He charged the President to change the situation whereby most of Ghana’s natural resources are being controlled by outside forces.

“For years, we’ve been mining gold. Whom does it benefit? It doesn’t benefit us. It benefits people outside and countries outside and so on; the same with the oil now, so I’m saying all these arrangements will have to change and I’m saying well it can’t be done overnight but at least you have to make an effort…I think that is what will change things; that’s the radical thinking that will change our situation and improve our lot,” Dr. Nkrumah said.

He said: “We have to be in control of our resources; that’s why we became independent. That is the bottom line of being independent and we’ve been blessed. This Continent is very rich so why are we one of the poorest in the world?”

“It’s only good leadership that can guide us in that direction,” he told Radio XYZ in that interview.

Dr Nkrumah told Kafui Dey Wednesday that President Mahama must be results oriented if he is to be seen as a performing leader.