{"id":1177748,"date":"2022-08-14T18:14:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T18:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/14\/it-is-easier-to-fill-your-pockets-and-drink-your-champagne-than-to-ensure-equity-oliver-baker\/"},"modified":"2022-08-14T18:14:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T18:14:55","slug":"it-is-easier-to-fill-your-pockets-and-drink-your-champagne-than-to-ensure-equity-oliver-baker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/14\/it-is-easier-to-fill-your-pockets-and-drink-your-champagne-than-to-ensure-equity-oliver-baker\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is Easier To Fill Your Pockets And Drink Your Champagne Than To Ensure Equity: Oliver-Baker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/8fbb08ee5d4441a0bc3299e3124a62a3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A lot of times, we make the mistake of thinking that the reason why our governments are mediocre is that they are filled with a lot of unintelligent people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let no one lie to you. Do not ever presume that people who end up in Government are all not intelligent. Many are several are very very intelligent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sure there are some deplorable hangers, that are sure to haunt every government. But there is a different reason why our politics produces mediocre. And it\u2019s not about intellect.<\/p>\n<p>Many successful businesses understand that it takes more than just gathering intelligence in a room to get a  to produce a way if you give me a government of 1000 intelligent people and the best educated in this country, I can guarantee you that government will fail.<\/p>\n<p>The nature of our problems does not just need intelligence to unravel. They demand persons capable of bold disruption and the strong character to confront the \u201cway things have always been done\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most effective organizers I have worked with in fixing the country are high school leavers; and others with very little formal education.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Every time I engage with establishment politicians in Ghana, I see people who though intelligent, have lost the belief that they can change the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They have come to realize that it is easier to fill your pockets and drink your champagne than to ensure equity for all.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02F9vq9DUtDAuYhc4341SGwJTVyiTRECki8DdtSoqH982pYUhKh2EYskJdL4ecoqmQl&#038;id=541709688<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: BATACH (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of times, we make the mistake of thinking that the reason why our governments are mediocre is that they are filled with a lot of unintelligent people.\u00a0 Let no one lie to you. Do not ever presume that people who end up in Government are all not intelligent. Many are several are very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1177750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6850,3473,5872,1144,15149,6607,23355,17717],"class_list":["post-1177748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-champagne","tag-drink","tag-easier","tag-ensure","tag-equity","tag-fill","tag-oliverbaker","tag-pockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}