Politics & Power Quote by John Agyekum Kufuor

Enough is the lever here: not a policy, not a statistic, but a moral throttle slammed forward. Kufuor stacks the phrase like a drumbeat, turning private grief into public indictment. The line works because it refuses to treat suffering as an unfortunate byproduct of politics; it frames it as evidence of political failure and a call to change who holds responsibility.

His choice of victims is strategic and expansive. Children and elders are the bookends of national time: the future that should be incubated and the past that should be honored. By naming “dreams” that “die before they have a chance to grow,” he yokes economic hardship to something more intimate than unemployment figures: stolen possibility. The elders “forced into indignity” does similar work, casting pension insecurity and weak social services as a betrayal of a civic bargain. “Having served their nation” is the key clause; it implies the state has taken, and now must repay.

The subtext is a rebuke of complacency and, likely, of an incumbent order that normalizes scarcity and corruption as background noise. He doesn’t accuse directly; he sets a standard so obvious that opponents look cruel if they argue with it. Contextually, this is the language of a democratizing, reform-minded leader in a post-adjustment Africa, where macroeconomic talk often eclipsed lived experience. Kufuor’s intent is to re-center governance on dignity: a nation isn’t just growing when GDP rises, but when childhood can imagine a future and old age can keep its pride.