Holy Mary! Hon. Ursula Owusu-Ekufu needs emotional intelligence to fix the floating bridge
If you want to know why so many businesses, communities, constituencies, and political parties sink into chaos in Ghana, look no further than the leader’s mouth.
I am sharing my palm wine tappers knowledge, come to my miserable level to understand what my dump brain wants to communicate.
Roller-coaster pronouncements of politicians make their jobs infinitely more difficult than they need to be. Get angry with the people you lead and the media and you are sure the end of your game may be in sight.
It is important that all politicians know that whatever their political authority, customers (the electorate and media house) come first, and the old customer service principle “The customer is always right” holds in politics as well.
When a politician is quick to make statements like …’ When nation wreckers deliberately destroy a bridge meant to alleviate the suffering of many, you can only wonder what kind of people we are. For the commentators and media houses who blamed me, God have mercy on you’
You wonder what kind of emotional intelligence people in leadership positions have and why they are so quick to spew such words without looking at their position and those who pulled them up there. To lead people, you need more emotional intelligence than IQ.
But this critical quality seems to the lacking ingredient of many already cooked politicians out there. For the young ones coming, you have to learn not just how to communicate but also how to build your emotional intelligence capacity. Their emotions on the spot and ill-thought of in the face of challenges fly their weakness openly.
Hon. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister of Communications, should know how to communicate in times of stress and disappointment. How a Minister of Communications spews such words makes me wonder what we are actually communicating from that important ministry. Comments such as the one quoted above are very disgusting, to say the least.
One’s position in private life, public, or politics does not mean you have the passport to fume over everything without a second thought.
Listening is a key quality of good communicators. It offers you an opportunity to weigh and evaluate various issues, then plan the appropriate response with your emotional intelligence as a guiding principle.
Make a mistake with your response, throw away emotional intelligence, and your audience will realize your weakness, showed you that you were unwilling to be patient in times of difficulties.
According to the preliminary assessment done by engineers, “Some persons deliberately went and loosened the end rope anchoring the concrete cast, which made the bridge shift from its original location. The bridge is not broken,”
This is very unfortunate but let us not lose sight of the reality that the debris in city floodwaters can cause such floating bridges to collapse and what may work in some jurisdictions may not in other places. That bridge might have had some poor design. Hon Ursula Owusu-Ekufu, cool down now.
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Don’t blame anyone for your poor foresight but rather, let your engineers get back to work and improve on their design then build a more resilient bridge that does not float.
The minister of communication believes per her statement that commentators and media houses do not have the moral right to publish the story or discuss it. This interpretation deduced from her comment may be wrong. However, no one can dictate to commentators and media houses what they should discuss so far us no law prohibits them.
It is rather unfortunate that your robust floating bridge turned out to be a titanic ship. Some persons hold the view that it is time for our Hon. Minister to divorce arrogance from her life. From where I seat, I look through my old weak lens and she might just be losing popularity in her constituency.
But questions such as…
- Have you seen the video of the people jubilating?
- What was the motive behind what they did?
- Why would some biased journos accuse her of that? I tell you, it is not good to laugh at politicians or other people when things go bad. This is an old moral law.
When projects meant for the benefit of society get destroyed in a country where politics has turned us into bitter rivals, you get wicked laughter like was captured in the video.
Emotional intelligence is key even when everyone wants things to go bad with the other party or government to make them unpopular. Die-hard NDC’s will surely say, their fellow NPP members do the same thing to them. Do you remember how they laughed at the NDC and continue to tease Mahama over Dumsor? Do you also recollect how the NDC held a press conference in the dams constructed for the benefit of Ghanaians because they were dry?
You are all guilty of the offense. If there is any prayer I want to be answered by God in Ghana politics, then it is that one day, both NDC and NPP will be called the two major opposition parties in parliament. God, let this be realized in my lifetime. Amen!
Source: Wisdom Hammond