Accra, March 5, 2020//-Ghana, do we really love our motherland or we are just passing through?
Are we willing to pay the price in making Ghana the country we dream and hope it to be?
How are we contributing to Ghana’s success? Are we stifling our own development with our actions and inactions at the expense of posterity?
Let’s talk about you. Yes you.
If everyone was to work the same way you did at your workplace, will Ghana ever develop? If everyone was to use the same measure of your productivity will we be able to leave a lasting legacy for our generation?
What happens to your toll tickets after paying? You drop them on the streets right?Yet you turn around and complain about how filthy our country is and why government needs to come and clean up..
You know the motorway is not for U-Turns yet you constantly make a U turn there putting your life and other road users in danger.
You’re a nurse or doctor, yet you have no empathy or sympathy whatsoever for your patients-People have to plead with you to do your work-yet you expect to be paid very well for what job done?
My brother you know very well these foreigners are coming in to engage in galamsey yet because of money, you front for them, take your cut and watch on as our water bodies and forest reserves are degraded with impunity.
Madam Business woman, you know very well those goods have expired yet you’ve cleaned off the dates, repackaged and selling to unsuspecting consumers! For heaven’s sake, did Christ die for this? Yet on sunday you gracefully lift up holy hands in the front pew while someone dies of your greedy action.
Mr politician, are you really in politics to help your people or for some other reason we both know? Are you really in tune with your constituents? Do you understand their needs?
And lest I forget, can we just stop the so called “Ghanaians are hospitable” mantra? Hospitable? Which Ghanaian?
Where has our so called hospitality led us? How many wholly owned Ghanaian businesses are still thriving? The greed, the ripoffs, the corruption! Let me just end here….
When was the last time you bought a Made-in-Ghana item? What items are on your shopping list? How many of them are local? Yet we expect the economy to grow at a fast pace.
I can go on and and on about the things we keep on overlooking in our day to day activities and how it’s having dire consequence on our development.
Seriously we cannot go on like this. We are 63 years old on Friday and we can’t even boast of a National Airline-(a discussion for another day).
We’ve got to step up to the challenge. We’ve got do the right things even when no one is looking.
Ghana is a highly religious country yet corruption is so rife and nasty! What are we doing to our country which was fought with the blood and sweat of our founding fathers? I’m sure they will be squirming in their graves.
But all hope is not lost yet, I still have hope in our generation. I have hope that we will surely get there.
63 years of Independence; it’s our time to BE THE CHANGE we want to see in Ghana.
Happy Birthday Ghana🇬🇭
Photo Credits- Yaw Pare (Yaw Pare Photography) and Emmanuel Bobbie (Bob Pixel)
These two are showcasing Ghana to the world and they need our massive support. Kudos Seniors.
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