Rewarding African Leaders for Power Resignation: Is that Good?

There is an initiative in Africa that rewards leaders of African nations for their peaceful power transfer and good governance. This reward is USD 5 million. The objective seems good as most African leaders die for retaining their power. But is this right in principle?

In my opinion, this initiative undermines peoples’ power to replace their leaders when they are unwanted. Not only does this undermine peoples’ power but also is an insult for the leaders themselves. It is only kids who can be tempted by something new and exciting. How can individuals leading nations influenced by monetary reward mechanism?

After all, the real promoter of individuals is intrinsic reward mechanism like thank you, recognition, popularity, respect, etc and not material reward. Specially, for leaders who had achieved their needs to a self-actualization level, it is hard to think that material rewards can encourage leaders for a peaceful power transfer and good governance. Of all, this initiative undermines the sovereignty of people and, thus, need to be discouraged.