- Look at what is happening with the anger of the youth not because they are lawless and recalcitrant, but because you have failed to educate them. You have failed to create and sustain...
Dear Leaders of Ghana,
Most of you are getting up from the champagne and caviar funeral reception of our great Busumuru Kofi Annan. Indeed, he has brought people together in a way that even soccer could not. We are for once celebrating meritorious excellence for what it is.
As you filed past the casket, while you read the glowing eulogies, I hope somewhere in you, you felt a pang of guilt. I hope that with the output of goodwill, you took some time to run a short account of what you had, and what you did with it.
 
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I hope you felt guilty for the mansions you have amassed in all your side deals and the fact that people who needed genuine help were denied because they didn't bribe you.
I hope you saw that after lowering the casket, all the Swiss accounts mean nothing. I hope that you saw that after the final bugle, it didn't matter about whether you built a vault in your mansion on top of the hill.
All that mattered beyond the cemetery was the legacy you left. All that mattered was the good things people remembered you with. Nobody will remember the pork you ate at movenpick or the first class flight to New York. But everyone will remember the young doctor you sponsored through school who is healing others, including your family.
Today, the youth are up in arms, rightfully because they lost faith in you. They are ready to gamble life's savings on mavericks because they truly do not believe you. They truly believe you have nothing good to offer. They truly believe you are out against them.
Look at what is happening with the anger of the youth not because they are lawless and recalcitrant, but because you have failed to educate them. You have failed to create and sustain a system for them to trust in. You have foaled to inspire them to believe in building and creating institutions.
You inherited good institutions and only fed them with your greed, and you thought you did well for yourselves.
Congratulations!
They were watching and learning. They have evolved the model. I hope you are happy with what they have become. You have created monsters of short-term gratification. Because there is nothing left.
Now money doublers are seen as national heroes and inspirational. Yes, in the vacuum of leadership, upstarts will arise. Just not the ones you will want.
So, as you move around in your Land Cruisers you know from the bottom of your heart you could not have afforded, with fuel you could have never bought honestly, ask yourself:
WHAT AM I LEAVING BEHIND?
WHO DID I INSPIRE?
WHAT WILL THEY SAY AFTER I'M GONE?
Most of you are just rich, but not wealthy. There is a difference.