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Why is Ghana so dependent on foreign aid and loans, the IMF etc?

Are these organisations the only venue of raising funds for the development of Ghana?

Don't we realise that is receiving such loans and aid we are effectively encouraging poverty on our people?

Why are Africa government so thick and allowing this chaos within our continent?

Ghana have all the natural resources it needs for a turnaround economy which could uplift its poverty status in the eyes of the developed world.

Yet Ghana chooses remain as a third world country and listen to the power dictatorship of the Western world.

Who is calling the shots here? Is it Ghana, one of the richest countries in West Africa, extremely rich in natural resources?

Or is it the Western society poor in natural resources but have the lips to articulate what they want from us all the time.

If Malaysia has turned their poverty of high unemployment, poor education, and poor infrastructure into cash cow.

What is Ghana actively doing to poverty?

How can we just sit there and see our youth cross the dangerous seas looking for just daily bread to survive the storms of life.

Why are our leaders so greedy and focusing on their needs and leaving children to perish in dilapidated classrooms?

How could our leaders leave mothers to die in child labour?

How could we leave our poor vulnerable old citizen to die unnatural death due to inability to pay their hospital bills?

How could we leave our youths to be carrying heavy luggage on their head to make ends meet?

Why are we deceiving our youth and robbing them to get free education?

Why do we allow our youth to be exploited as maidservants in our homes?

Why can't we stop increasing the slums in Ghana and emulate what president Gadaffi did in Libya by offering better accommodation to all its poor citizens!

Why do we suit there when the west is ensuring that we depend on them for our essential objectives?

Why do we go West when we want quality and quality assurance?

Why can't we also add value to our products from its production and rely on the West for quality products? Continued    Source: Mercy Adede Bolus

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