Do something and NOW, Mr President!!!!!!

Be Not Deceived

NONE of the 'politrical' parties in Ghana has anything to offer Ghana as far as development is concerned. 

To be a good psychiatrist, you must be able to study human behavior and know how human beings think at various points in time. To give a good counsel on say substance abuse, you must be someone who knows the severe dangers of being addicted to substance abuse. 

These our so-called leaders, from the president to the very least in government has no clue as to how to best manage the limited resources of our dear nation and bring us out to a better Ghana. Lip-services we are good at but working to bring it to existence is what nobody cares about. Our leaders have come in terms with the acts of corrupt practices over the years ever since our beloved ex president Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings left the scene of governance for peace to reign in the country, being the peoples person he has been after the struggle he had to endure to bring us thus far. 

Now what do we see? These careless greedy politicians, overlooking national development, choosing fattening their pockets over maintaining law and order. You hear rumours of armed robbery all over the place, one environment today and another tomorrow and we often wonder where these criminals get these sophisticated arms from. As if that is not enough, the police themselves have joined forces with these criminal, robbing innocent citizens who are ignorant of their civil basic human rights. 

An instance has been where I have witnessed a poor trotro driver plugged with that stun-guns (electric gadgets) meant to restrain aggressive people who flaunt the law. Most of these police personnel have been chosen by this National Youth Employment Program (NYEP) initiative, which should never have been so in the first place. 

The safety and security of persons and property cannot be trusted into the hands of just anyone who stands to join the force at will without the necessary training, after a background check has been thoroughly done on them. This same modal of selection was done to the health sector that, in most hospitals today, we have patients being molested and treated with all kinds of inhumane attitudes on the parts of nurses who are suppose to take good care of these patients. I have been a victim of such treatments in one of our local clinic back in my hometown when one of the nurses, rather a young man, who was to issue my hospital couldn't afford to write my name despite the many times I have spelt the letters to him. He rather got offended when I offered to write the name for him. Imagine ten of such personnel selected from each of the regions to administer treatment to patients, what would become of us all in the next few years to come.

Unless there is a media coverage, nobody does the right thing as postulated in the legal realms of the law. It is well known in Ghana, sadly, that the law is very docile and never been practiced until there is an Anas Aremeyaw Anas type of strata. 

Our dear president Mahama might have had a good vision for the nation but without the right tools (people) and mechanism (policies) to drive us out of this mud, our bus would be swallowed up by this quick-sand of developmental deterioration. We need something done and NOW!!!!!