Gaddafi to visit Ghana

‘Rawlings Revolution’, not democracy saved Ghana
Muammar Gaddafi, Libya’s leader and the elected chairman of the 53-nation African Union will be visiting Ghana on Tuesday, July 21st 2009.

Gaddafi is expected to discuss issues of African security and economic stability as well as UN representation, with President John Atta-Mills.

His visit, shortly after US President Obama’s visit may serve to directly undermine US ambitions in Africa, via Ghana. Gaddafi is known to promote ‘direct democracy’, as against western ‘Multiparty democracy’

‘Rawlings Revolution’, not democracy saved Ghana

Ghana has been proclaimed as an exemplary African Nation by the media due to it’s democracy. This however is not very true or accurate. The relative success of Ghana as compares to other African Nations of similar dispensation is not due to democracy, but rather due to the Military ‘Rawlings Revolution’ on 31st December 1981.

Ghana, like its counterpart Nations, was decaying in the annals of corruption as a failed post colonial state. Western Multiparty Democracy in Ghana was not helping, as- secondary to the the colonial occupation of African Nations, and the Slave trade forced on Africans via western superior war guns, leading to their ability to sell their brothers, a corrupted generation of Africans prevailed.

And as military or democratic leaders, these worthless people who the western colonialists handed power to, could not lead the already failed states. Failed states created by sudden combination’s or separations of territories (usually of incompatible tribes or tribes not yet naturally ready to coexist, compounded with unfair power and resource sharing by the colonialists among the combined territories) shortly before carving out the African nations and handing over power.

What rescued Ghana according to experts was Jerry Rawlings’ military take over and his ruthless reform revolution, which included the prosecution of all Ghanaian’s who could not account for their source of wealth. Indeed it was so tough that piles of money were seen around Ghana, as people dumped their money in fear of being prosecuted if unable to account for their monetary possessions.

Indeed Rawlings on many platforms professed his hatred for multiparty democracy because of the past destructive years that multiparty systems had brought to Ghana (i.e the Busia days).

And his party candidate, John Atta-Mils, the current president of Ghana can be expected to have discussions on this with Gaddafi during his Tuesday visit.

Ghanaian multiparty democracy already gone bloody

Corruption has been swiftly returning to the Ghana political scene, last week a certain alleged $5000 Vodafone company bribe of Ghanaian members of parliament topped the news on Ghana radio stations, and other discussions of Election violence

Bribes coming in from Nigerian governors were also hot topics. The last election was nothing but terrible as multiparty political hatred and strife was predominant and the deposed president threatened to bring in neighboring Togolese soldiers to take over the country in event of his loss. Bloody clashes broke out and many were injured or killed in the election turmoil, and with the expected increase in Ghana’s wealth with the oil that has been found, analysts predict the not uncommon chaos of multiparty democracy to soon plague Ghana, and Ghana’s fall from the Rawling revolution brought on fame.

For now, Ghanaian’s are very optimistic and anticipatory of Muammar Gaddafi’s historic visit, and hope he can shore up security risk issues that Ghana expects to arise with the newly discoverd wealth status, as well as discuss good and stable systems of governance for African nations and the continent as a whole.