Setting a tone for Governance - the role of Lackeys & Supporters

To: okyeame@googlegroups.com

0830hrs, Wednesday January 7, 2009

Taking Discourse to the Next and Right Level


Greetings..

If you are an insider, you must realise the difference between the political platform and the actual art of governance.

Those of us on the sidelines only see those we know well..the rest of the people we see by their names only even if we have never met them or interacted with them directly. What this means is that the impressions or perceptions we carry of people we either encounter or get to hear about can be lasting but may be either manifestly correct, partly correct or manifestly wrong when you dig into it.

Today as we turn the scales on the administration of president JAK and welcome president JAM, we need all the lackeys and insiders to begin to bring the prospect of decorum into their utterances. it is very different when you are a Joe Somebody in the street, but when you assume the reins of government, you must change your language.

If we remember the kind of hard words that Agya Atta used on the campaign trail, we should not accept him as President.. but that was the campaign floor... it is just like Agbenaaaaa, they wont come in today or tomorrow etc... it all adds to the beauty and the temperament of the campaign. Watch the MPs, they insult themselves but actually work together more than cordially in Committees and in the House etc.

It is for this reason that I think our newly rejuvenated hot mouths have to begin to change the tone that they bring into the Okyeame Space. Same to all the NPP diehards in this space..Tone down.!!!!.

We may be meaning no harm with our words, but our lackeys in the street see it as their ticket and signal to misbehave. look at how even some landlords are evicting their tenants from different party persuasions... what kind of mind-set is that? we have to move on as a country.

We must now begin the process of vigourously defending or critiquing Government actions and policies.. we must also, based on new data to be brought out by the new administration, review the performance info of the JAK administration. all these would form part of the mixed grill of Okyeame over the next few years.. in addition to stories about Obaa Rose's kitchen and the Akropong city toli etc.


The next 100 days will most definitely be critical as we welcome Agya Atta into the Presidency. The media landscape must be very vibrant - as vibrant as it has been but more robust, balanced, more enquiring than ever, more or better analytical and focused from a better learned position with respect to the different subjects/issues. We need to steer away from conjecture, stick to facts and opinions based on reason and analysis.

We must now raise Okyeame to a new level - avoid Pull-Him-Down-isms, celebrate the breath and span of diversity of our forum members. Let's make Okyeame attractive, in fact so attractive that we shall enjoy the paradigm of relevance of wisdom matched with knowledge.

Good Morning