Beyond my recent article titled “The Greatest Irony: Africa’s Best Mayor’s City Flooded Again | Killing Over 150 People”, the fact that the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive, Alfred Oko Vanderpuije (Mayor of Accra) is still in position after last week’s flood which killed over 200 people and that of the previous years is a strong confirmation that we are addicted to incompetence.
Truly, our leaders have no conscience to even resign if they totally fail us…
Interestingly, I was recently a member of a JOY FM’s Ghana-Connect discussion panel which looked at the hovering incompetence in Ghana and the non-existent culture of resignation—the Mayor of Accra-Alfred Oko Vanderpuije being in office today is an indication of how deep this problem goes within our public offices.
In my submission during the discussion, I said that “by default no one would resign even if that person is grossly incompetent but in other societies, people resign because of either a hovering tendency of being FIRED or excessive pressure from the masses.
In Ghana, we have wrongly aligned everything to politics and we are unable to separate the daily political propaganda and hogwash from serious national issues or problems…”
This brings me to my question; why is Alfred Oko Vanderpuije still the Mayor of a city that floods each year under his leadership?
The answer is simple, no one will fire him despite the gross incompetence and the masses are unable to mount enough pressure on him to resign—because, we cannot separate national crisis such as floods even when we are dying from politics.