Biblical Moses was a true leader. We read in Exodus that he was a devoted shepherd - an unpretentious personality, who was excellent in negotiations and diplomacy skills like Kofi Annan of blessed memory, who would later converse superlatively with God.

Moses patiently kept watching as thousands of sheep grazed the fields. Moses noticed that one sheep was missing and went off to look for it, finding it at a distant apart.

When the sheep had finished drinking, Moses patiently and dutifully lifted it onto his shoulders and carried it back to the flock.

When Jehovah God saw this, He became convinced that Moses was a man of intelligence , reason, empathy and selfless devotion, a man truly worthy to lead His people, a man who would put his empathetic qualities at the disposal of the needs of his subordinates. Is Bawumia not on the same pedestal like Biblical Moses? He is.

After all, no one was keeping an eye on Moses, and therefore Moses could easily have thought to himself, “why be concerned with one sheep when there are thousands”?

Well, the crucial question we should be asking then is: with so many people purporting to be leaders these days, how do we distinguish between a true leader and a demagogue?

To be able to do justice to the preceding question, we must pause, reflect summarily and ask: what is it that a leader is actually trying to achieve?

Well, I presume a true leader wants nothing more than to make people independent, as leaders in their own rights. And instead of trying to inebriate us with his or her rhetoric and insobriety, a true leader reflects our own light back to us.

More importantly, a true leader such as erudite Bawumia always comes up with pragmatic and innovative ideas such as the Free SHS, digitalisation, mobile money interoperability, medical drones, one ambulance one constituency, amongst others, with the view to transforming the lives of his subordinates.

Interestingly, Oxford English dictionary defines intelligence as the faculty of thought and reason or the capacity to acquire knowledge.

On the other hand, knowledge is defined as familiarity, awareness or understanding gain through experience or study. Conversely, wisdom is the ability to discern or judge what is true, right or lasting.

Based on the preceding definitions of intelligence, knowledge and wisdom, we can deduce that an intelligent person does not necessarily possess wisdom. We can also postulate that an intelligent person can acquire knowledge, but may also lack the requisite wisdom that would guide the individual to apply such knowledge effectively in his/her day-to-day living activities.

In effect, the function of intelligence focuses on questions of how to do and accomplish the necessary life-supporting tasks.

While the function of wisdom prompts individual to consider the consequences of his/her actions both to self and their effects on others. Wisdom, therefore, evokes questions of should one pursue a particular course of action or not.

Politics, in fact, is a contestation of ideas between rival political parties with the view to receiving public mandate to form a government to put better policies and programmes in place to impact the lives of the masses.

Thus, the electorates, more often than not, put in heart-wrenching sacrifices to ensure that the political processes go on seamlessly.

That being said, the citizens and denizens are often spurned and neglected after helping the manipulating politicians to their comfort zones.

All the same, the vast majority of Ghanaians, so to speak, have a deferential regard for politicians who have the heart and the abilities to make sacrifices.

Trust me, many Ghanaians more often than not, hold people who have the seriousness and commitment to do the right thing in high esteem.

Indeed, Ghanaians would gregariously warm towards people who have the courage of their aspirations. And yet some politicians would blatantly betray the trust we repose in them. Why is that?

Ghana, as a matter of fact, needs the men and women with the unparalleled wisdom of the Biblical Solomon and the enviable intelligence of the tiny ant to successfully steer the nation in the right direction.

In Ghana today, we have the elitists who claim perquisite to leadership, albeit, the vast majority of our leaders are wisdom deficient.

Of course, we have abundant knowledgeable men and women. Regretfully, however, many of them do not apply wisdom in their endeavours.

I recall a London Taxi Driver once pontificated somewhat carelessly : “African leaders are not wise”.

The clamorous taxi driver maintained that Africa’s retrogression is largely due to lack of wisdom on the part of African leaders.

Obviously, I challenged the boisterous taxi driver to provide further and better particulars on his wild claims.

Without mincing words, the strident taxi driver went ahead and pontificated somewhat impetuously that if African leaders were “ indeed wise and upright”, why is it that they persistently empty the national coffers for their own self-aggrandisement, instead of building good roads, hospitals, schools, amongst others?”

“Why are African leaders sitting aloof and allowing some obstreperous foreigners and their criminally-minded Ghanaians to steal Ghana’s mineral resources and destroying lands and water bodies?”

“Why are your leaders persistently negotiating and accepting meagre percentages of your precious minerals with the foreign investors?”

“How come you boast of copious natural resources, and yet remain poorer and poorer amongst nations?”

In fact, I did not agree with the Taxi Driver initially. But upon a carefully considered reflection, I came to a sad conclusion that the impolitic driver was after all on point, for most African leaders are intelligent and knowledgeable, but the stark reality is a sizeable number of African leaders are deficient in wisdom.

I think it is a true reflection in the sense that it is the leadership that takes all the important decisions in the nation building.

In Ghana, it is crystal-clear that we have intelligent and knowledgeable men and women in important positions, albeit the vast majority of them do not apply the needed wisdom in their day-to-day living activities.

We should accept the painful fact that so long as we have Leaders that have no vision, that are myopic, that don’t think that every child can be educated and giving skills to excel in this world, so long as we have Leaders that are short-sighted and count their achievements with how much loan they are able to contract and the number of schools they are able to remove under trees, so long as we have Leaders that have no vision that are corrupt, greedy, and incompetent, we shall forever remain "Modern day Slaves".

Well, the dire is not cast yet, for we have the indefatigable Bawumia hanging around with unmatched knowledge, unparalleled emotional intelligence, an impeccable integrity, and above all a paragon of wisdom to steer Ghana in the right direction.