Daily Inspiration Quote by John Agyekum Kufuor

A quiet indictment sits inside Kufuor's word choice: "dubious means" is doing the work of an entire national scandal without naming it. It gestures toward forged papers, dangerous routes, overstayed visas, under-the-table jobs, and the humiliation of being perpetually "illegal" in someone else's economy. By refusing to sensationalize those realities, the line gains moral force. It treats irregular migration less as individual failure than as a policy outcome, something a state should make unnecessary.

"Never again" is the tell. It borrows the cadence of post-crisis promises, the kind leaders reach for after a shameful episode has exposed how fragile the social contract has become. The target isn't only traffickers or corrupt middlemen; it's the conditions that make them credible. Kufuor frames migration as compulsion, not romance: people leave "simply to make a living". That "simply" strips away the aspirational myths of diaspora success and re-centers the most basic demand citizens make of government: a chance to survive with dignity at home.

The line also performs a delicate balancing act for a statesman in a globalized era. It doesn't demonize foreign lands, and it doesn't deny the pull of opportunity abroad. It asserts a baseline: mobility should be choice, not desperation. Read in Ghana's context of economic reform, youth unemployment pressures, and the long shadow of structural adjustment and brain drain, it's both a pledge and a warning. If the nation can't provide livelihoods, it will export its people into precarity - and import the shame that comes with it.