Makers, Watchers, Unmakers

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Tue, 6 Jan 2015 Source: Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh

There was this spokesperson for a president, named speaker, who called his book 'speaking for the president.' I couldn't add 'famous' as a descriptive because I thought I heard he was in some kind of trouble post-book launch. You know political and celebrity lives are like that: today you are famous and a hero, tomorrow you are villainous or notorious.

Therefore, when a speaker-assist stands in to speak for a speaker, one expects a speaker language. And so the speaker assist speaking for the speaker spoke parabolically or something like that. He referred to someone else who said something like a leader makes things happen, or nonchalantly watch things happen, or destructively knows not anything happening when s/he is to make things happen.

A happening maker is hands in not just hands on, because on is for joining the in. Watching a happening is hands being on unpreparedly and of little concern. Unaware that anything is happening is totally hands off. If others are doers or onlookers, this type is a spoiler. When not born a great maker or achiever in making, but you have greatness bestowed upon you to make, you destroy. Verily, he was not just speaking a speech because it is understood or known that when he had to make judgment debt payments happen, he betrayed the congress 'there is no money lies' by engineering the payment of some $750 million within two to three years. Yes; he made things not meant to happen to happen.

His master, who could have stopped the thievery from the motherland kitty, looked on as the thieving happened. Had the miller made his 'stop payment' happen, instead of watching it happen, he would have saved the motherland a cool $750 million.

At some point, the master also watched an Embraer deal happen. Because he was not actively watching from afar, he couldn't stop it and therefore ordered an investigation to ascertain the facts and maybe make a disciplinary sack or something like that happen for once.

Fofie Anto Ata or before long, the mantle to make things happen passed on to the investigated whose belief system had always been to make things happen is to make money as things go into his pocket, or his brothers' pocket or private pocket that is not the motherland purse. His make is to drain that purse to fill private pockets.

So from a giant making things happen to the miller who preferred watching things happen, it was now the time for the not knowing, not being aware that there is something called development that compatriots expect him to make happen as the mantle bearer.

Statutory payments, including grants to children with disability to have education hardly ever happened. Instead, what should not happen, plain thievery, daylight robbery, have happened with stolen banks, ghost salary receivers and bloated contracts.

In the dynamics of KMM (period January 7, 2001 to date) motherland nation development solutions, the make, watch-make, and ignore-make leadership styles come into play.

If you examine the acronyms of each letter, vowels play an important role. The K acronym is best because it contains one lubricant vowel making it easy to English (which we so much love to use) pronounce and, thus, less confusing. The first M's initialling, with two succeeding vowels, is a bit stretched with e before a; (a before e is more logical).

Acronymically, the second M, all consonants, is without the vowels that allow thought and action to gel. Vowels lubricate consonants; without them there is inflexibility. Without a vowel to oil consonants, the wheel of vision is restrained.

Things become myopic such that it becomes rather difficult to separate a small girl from woman and a small boy from a man. So you appoint small without thought; you direct without clarity; and you charge without monitoring because there is no known target to guide monitoring.

Ku and Mi and Ma are, therefore, makers or make watchers or a see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil (except unredeemable promises) actors. The last are unmakers or spoilers. If your life is in their hands, no prayer warrior can help you; unless you want to help yourself by standing up and shouting and not sitting on your butt brooding.

I don't know how many of you my compatriots went through a New Year's rollercoaster of emotions inflicted by dum. At 8.48 am on New Year's Day, the first day of year 2015, the lights went dum. Miraculously, they came back on at 8.59 am.

When they went out, I thought I should check the water flow by turning on the tap at 9.20 am. By 9.49 am the tank was overflowing, though overflow was because it had been filled with well water two days before. Mixed emotions!

Auteur: Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh