Nana Kwame Bediako, popularly known as Cheddar, has stated emphatically that politicians holding positions in government who steal from the state cannot claim to be successful people.
He states that he does not want to be like those in the bracket and that he is not proud of those who obtained their wealth through politics.
In an interview with the Daily Graphic, Cheddar said that his spirit revolves around Kwame Nkrumah and other African leaders who place a more emphasis on developing their nations than piling up wealth.
“There are Ghanaians that are doing well. The question is, are they doing well because they are entrepreneurs, or are they doing well because the government wants them to do well? If that is the case, we are not going to have the industrial leaders that we need, commercial leaders that we need, or political leaders that we need.
We need stronger people who are self-made, not someone that has been built over state money. Stealing your own country’s money and calling yourself a successful person, I’m not proud of you and I’m not proud to be one of them and I don’t want to be, I’m not interested that’s why I keep telling you that my spirit is evolving around the likes of Kwame Nkrumah and those kind of leaders. It is not in our interest to use the state to make money for ourselves,” he said.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
