We’ve not had a good leader after Nkrumah – Frimpong Boateng

Ghanaian scientist and a former minister under the Akufo-Addo regime Professor Kwabena Frimpong Boateng has said Ghana has not had any good leader since Kwame Nkrumah. He said that is the only reason why the country has stagnated despite decades of peace and stability.

“If after twenty or forty years, we are not making any headway though we haven’t had any civil war, drought, or any natural catastrophe and we are in this state, there must be something wrong and it can only be a lack of transformational leadership.”

According to Frimpong Boateng, Ghana has not “had any transformational leadership since Kwame Nkrumah”.

Prof Frimpong Boateng noted that the result of the country’s current state is due to blatant corruption, mismanagement and incompetent leadership. He said any efforts to mask such consequences will always fail as they will keep appearing regardless.

“We cannot hide the consequences of corruption, incompetence, and mismanagement, you can hide them but they will appear,” he told Citi TV in an interview.

According to the famed Cardiothoracic surgeon, Ghana must look and work towards depending on her own not always seeking external help. He said external help will be needed but it should not be the country’s major source of help as compared to internal solutions to our domestic problems.

“We should be able to organise ourselves in such a way that we are able to take care of ourselves. We sometimes need external help but it should not be a permanent feature of our lives.”

Also, he blamed the people who came after Kwame Nkrumah for destroying some of the institutions he established. He said overthrowing Nkrumah should not mean killing his ideas or destroying the works he did.

“We can overthrow him [Kwame Nkrumah] but don’t destroy some of the things that he did. Nkrumah set up the Academy of Sciences which became the CSIR and other scientific institutions. These institutions Nkrumah set up were going to do things and the NLC came and destroyed everything and cancelled everything.”