“A leader who supervises treachery, corruption and wanton destruction of his country’s environment for the interest of the few cannot be a leader who possesses the needed quality to ensure the spiritual foundation of the country is advanced,” Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, has said.
The former Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister says the cardinal principles underlying the democracy Ghana is practicing is in the Bible, but the leadership has departed from it making it difficult for them to lead properly.
In his latest letter titled: ‘Spiritual Foundation of our Democracy’ the professor explains how the basis of democracy has been neglected, therefore making leadership suffer to detach themselves from the acts that defy good governance as espoused in the Bible.
He says the current challenges being faced in the country is as a result of how “the spiritual foundation of our democracy has been lost on our leaders because they do not believe and practice any of the biblical principles supposed to be the basis of their rule.”
In establishing the foundation of democracy, the Professor said that: “Most, if not all the presidential democracies in the world are a form of copy of the American system. In this system the basis of good governance is the separation of powers, which the framers of the American constitution borrowed from Chapter 33 and verse 22 of the book of the Prophet Isaiah in the Bible. This passage reads: “For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King; it is he who will save us.” Here the Bible clearly describes the separation of powers. The Lord is our judge points to the Judiciary; the Lord is our lawgiver refers to Parliament and the Lord is our King refers to the Executive.”
He continued that “the current situation in Ghana clearly shows that, our leaders do not only lack what it takes to believe in the cardinal biblical principles our democracy hinges on but have equally departed from the face of God.
To him, Ghana’s “current democracy has not only bred sorrow and hardships among the large populace of Ghanaians but has gradually messed up the mindset of the average person. Today our leaders have not only sewed hopelessness among our youth but have equally eroded any confidence in them that they can make in Ghana,” portions of his epistle stated.
He prayed that other countries have chosen other forms of government that is based on either Islamic laws, Hindu Culture and Shintoism among others which is working for them, Ghana, which has chosen “democracy that is based on biblical laws and precepts, shall do well to build enduring legacies on this solid spiritual foundation.”
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