Just as the circle interchange is being compared to Dubai, so is our freedom of speech being compared to the USA. Interestingly all scenarios can be accepted only at night. In a country where every criticism against a policy of a party is termed “a paid-utterence”, only the politician boldly speaks his mind. Every other person is ” paid to talk”.
The fact is, I never witnessed the 8year term of President John Jerry Rawlings. But I was fortunate to witness the tenure of President John Kuffour. Fast forward to today, I am still under the rule of the same party. Yes!! The same party. The GHANA EFFECT runs through them all. They present themselves as two opposing sides with different ideology, yet they do the same thing. They do nothing better than putting the country into shame. Presenting the country as if we just migrated from the Stone Age era. Ghana appears to be moving backward and now stuck in 1898 from independence. All governments since time immemorial have been busily building non existent infrastructure (sometimes shoddy if they exist) whilst their people wallow in abject poverty resulting from high unemployment.
What is the point in celebrating an interchange (which is not even complete), when day in day out, cars are involved in accident on the 127km stretch from Bole to Wa due to the poor nature of the road?. Am sure the thousand and something people employed during 1992 to date due to infrastructure development are still employed on that job till date? How can we jubilate over a sawla-fufulso road which has started developing potholes barely over 2years of its completion? How can we claim of tackling graduate unemployment with jobs that only last for maximum of 6months? How do we expect the graduate to start his own business under this harsh economic condition when cost of doing business is as high as the ‘circle interchange’? What is the point in jubilating over new schools when the average Ghanaian cannot even pay his/her children SHS fees? What is the point of being proud as a nation when we cannot self finance our infrastructure? Where are we moving as a nation when all our contracts are been undertaken by Chinese? What is the point in been happy when we cannot transform our own gold and oil? All we do is beg to share and build. Accumulating debts for the unborn generations. We only tickle ourselves and laugh as a nation. Yes!! 59years over and over, we have been doing the same thing. The only things increasing in the country are; unemployment, population, corruption, crime.
During the commissioning of the circle interchange, I heard the president saying that it will save the country some millions of dollars, yes president Kuffour said the same thing. Rawlings said the same thing. Don’t actually know how their analysis was done. But the millions of dollars made my mother to struggle to pay my school fees, it made life unbearable for her. She nearly made me drop out of school. The borehole which was constructed in Bole by an NGO cost 10times lesser than the government initiated one. Enemies of services and patriots of praises.
The last time I checked, manifestos didn’t work in the country. What they promise is totally different from what they deliver when voted to power. They do the same things their predecessors did. Such a country qualifies not to even be compared to south Africa talking less of Dubai. The tickling effect is just too much.
We must rethink our priorities as a nation and make the nation work again instead of selling and disgracing our country to international media. 59years over and over. The youth are jobless and have resorted to crime. 59years, over and over ECG is about being privatised.
Therefore all ye brothers let meet under the mango tree and think in one accord.
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