Why you shouldn't organize a coup or call the army useless
Coups don’t fix long-term problems. Ghana has had three interruptions of democracy in the past and what do we have to show for it? A few brilliant ideas here and there but did that bring us lasting change? If it did, we wouldn’t be here, would we? I love the army. I respect the decision of our soldiers to lay down their lives for our country if the need arises. I have many passions but I don’t count laying my life down for Ghana one of them. So when some people willingly choose to do this, I respect it. Having professed my undying love for our soldiers, it is no brainer that soldiers are not necessarily good rulers. The rigid discipline of the army can be useful in small doses for national morale but in policy formulation and international negotiations, it may not be very useful. Now let us talk about trust in the future. For all our flaws as a country, we stand a better chance of crawling our way out of poverty than reversing the gains we have made over the last 20 years through a...