Revered businessman Dr Ishmael Yamson has said Ghana's presidents are cowards.
According to the Chairman of Yamson and Associates, none of the presidents the country has had has been "ruthless, courageous and bold" enough to take decisions that will move the country forward irrespective of the political consequences.
Speaking to Moro Awudu on Class91.3FM on Wednesday, 17 May, Dr Yamson said: "I will love a president of this country who will step up and say: 'I'm prepared to be a one-term president,' and from day one seek to change this country fundamentally."
Asked if such a president does not risk being ill-fated politically, Dr Yamson said: "It doesn't matter [if his party people kill him]. Let them kill him because in the second or third year, the actions he would have taken would begin to bear big fruits and his party people will applaud him."
In his view, Ghana has not seen such a leader yet "because our presidents are cowards".
"They just don't want to start from day one and take [bold decisions]. …If any leader anywhere thinks that he can please everybody, that is the beginning of his failure or her failure," Dr Yamson said, stressing: "Any leader who attempts to please everybody is on the path to failure because any good action you take will hurt somebody, any good decision you take will hurt somebody, and sometimes it will hurt people who are closest to you, but if you are a courageous and bold leader, you'll stick by your [convictions]. And the first thing is to make sure that if it is actually in the interest of your people, of your country, of your country then you must go out there and take that decision no matter what it is," Dr Yamson said in a foretaste conversation to the Ishmael Yamson And Associates Business Roundtable 2017 which comes off on 31 May at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Accra.
Among the speakers to grace the roundtable are Pastor Mensa Otabil of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta, businessman Dr Daniel Mackorley, and Dr Yamson himself, among a raft of others.
Class91.3FM is a partner to the event which ties into the station's entrepreneurial advocacy week.
Source: Classfmonline
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What about Nana decision to stop galamsy..it hurting people now , please talk well , because we had our Dr Kwame Nkrumah good later in our history
This man thinks Ghanaians are ***barred word***, right? You are one of the people who have milked this country to the it's bones. The most opportunist I have ever come across. Those of us who know you don't give a Heeeeel about your roundtable whatever. You and your family should enjoy your ill-gotten gains and leave us in peace.
Dr Yamson is hardly the person to talk about our Presidents being cowards. What kind of courage has he displayed in his work, apart from fleecing the country at every opportunity. This is the man who got the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre, GIPC to pay for the drinks for his 70th birthday party because he was the board chairman. And he has the temerity to lecture anybody about governance. If people like Dr Yamson would try to do what they preach, we wouldn't need our presidents to be brave or cowardly; our presidents would need only to abide by the Constitution. Dear Sir, you lost any right to comment on our presidents long ago. I haven't heard your name being called to lecture this new set of Ministers as you routinely get yourself invited to do. Maybe that is why you want to say something to be noticed.
What is this? Why didn't you suggest to the late President Prof. Mills, who at that time was even not feeling well? (please no ill motive here) You were very close to him and the NDC, yet you never said anything when they were performing abysmally. If better performing government is at the helm of affairs, do you prefer to stay with it for just four years or at least 8years? Like Brigadier Nunoo Mensah, People like you are impediments to the nation building.
Great minds, they say, think alike😀
Indeed DR.JAMSON, You have said it all and we are looking forward to that very day. The country indeed has the LAW in place but who are those going to see to it that, the LAWS are into practice.