Too many "emotional babies" in politics, leadership – Budu Koomson

General News of Sunday, January 20th, 2019

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2019-01-20

Emotional babies have enveloped Ghana's leadership system and there is an urgent need to train our politicians and other leaders in various areas with emotional intelligence to reflect a certain level of maturity in their statements and in their leadership in all together, retired Captain, Captain Budu Koomson said.

Speaking about the badbadination of the Tiger Eye underground journalist, Ahmed Hussein-Suale, Koomson has noted with concern the situation where politicians and influential figures are emerging on some platforms to talk irresponsibly, thus blurring their thoughtless emotional state. its repercussions or implications on the country or its citizens.

The definition of maturity, he says, has absolutely nothing to do with a person's position or influence; he says rather how one can manage one's feelings with maturity and one's intelligence portrays one's level of growth and advancement.

"We have to be careful when we have public positions, management positions, people watching us, what we say. This is a sign of maturity. In Ghana, the bulk of emotional intelligence is almost ignored, "he said on Citi TV's" Big Issue "on Saturday. Add; "We have emotional babies in very big positions in Ghana."

"They can not control their anger, their pbadion, their fingers go into public things, they can not control their appetite for personal recognition to the detriment of people, it's everywhere." It's time we start with the leadership in Ghana, we are starting to be aware of this factor, we must be emotionally intelligent, it has nothing to do with your IQ or your doctoral degrees, if you are a thief and we give you the cbadock, you will steal the wine, "he said.

Citing the manner in which such irresponsible remarks sparked violence in some countries, he emphasized the importance of instilling emotional intelligence into the Ghanaian system from various occupiers of senior management positions in the country. country. This, he says, will avoid generating chaos or provoking unfortunate incidents like the one that happened with the late Ahmed Suale.

"I will put a lot of weight on it, not just about Kennedy Agyapong, but with everyone in a leadership position, a position of influence, a public position where you have followers or followers. conscious and responsible of your words.We have Rwanda, created by incentives to the population, Ivory Coast imploded by incentives to the people, when we go to Ghana here on our political platforms, why have we We're seeing an upsurge in violence every time there's an election? If you come up to a platform that, when you talk, you discover that people hang on to every word you say, you'll go that you have the power, 90% of the time, when you say that they are going to do something, they will do it and they will do too much, "he said.

Context

The country has been hit recently by several strange deaths of personalities. The death of Mankralo [caretaker chief] Prampram, Nene Atsure Benta III, in his car in December, stabbed by the chief pastor of the Church of the Central Assemblies of God of Tema Community Four, the Reverend Dr. David in his office, the murder of the director of the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL)), Joseph Miigaai Jakperuk by unknown badailants in the district of East Mamprusi in the Northern Region, the badbadination of Josephine Asante, public relations officer of the Ghana Ports Authority and habits, and more recently the badbadination of the Tiger Eye PI member, Ahmed Suale Hussein in his car.

As a result of these deaths, Ghanaians and several public service organizations called on the country's security agencies, the IGP and the government to step in to curb the upsurge of these events.

Some Ghanaians also urged Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong, to pay attention to his remarks because many believe that his revelation of Ahmed's identity on national television made him vulnerable.