COMPLAIN IS MISSING!!!! - In Ghana we murmur we don't complain!

How long are we going to keep our fingers crossed? We can't even move our jaws up and down, or to and fro.

we can't just explain to complain our stained minds. One thing i have notice about we Ghanaian is that, we find it difficult to comprehend the word complain.

First, let me start from the church, even if the pastor is demanding too much, we keep on praising him, the pastor is preaching too long, we say 'go on', the pastor asked whether he should close or not?, we will shout "no" but we know that we were feeling uncomfortable and tired.

We can't just complain that some church activities are too noisy. We always hail and praise things that are inconvenient to us even to the detriment of our precious lives!.

Another traumatic one, is the street hawkers, it is very impossible to tell somebody in his private car to stop for you to sell to him, the potter will just have to run after the car, because if you dare not, then you will starve to death. Can beggars especially the street ones ever be on strike?

Streetism is on the rampant increased every blessed day than ever, in the past children were raised in the house before ending up on the street for one reason or other but now,they are now being raised fully on the street- from naming ceremony to death right. But the questions is even if you complain "who cares?" children are abused and forced into labour by their own parents and guardians but the problem is whom will you talk to if your own mother gives you snake instead of bread?

If you choose to complain about a little thing in Ghana then call it a suicide.

Secretaries cannot complain about their bosses' attitudes other wise call it 'fire'

Student can never complain about the mistakes in the B. E. C. E examinations settings or the misplacement of their schools.

Even if there is too much rise in prices of commodities too, we shut our mouth mouths and close our eyes like a mermaid cat.

Even the taste of the Tampico fruit juice has change from how it was first, but we keeping on taking it like blood tonic.

We keep on buying expired goods from the market without a complain. if not the intelligibility of Anas Aremeyaw Anas we could have keep on taking the maggots biscuit. We keep on drinking expired sachet water yet we shut our lips locked.

Foreigners keep on practicing cheap labour in the country by using our people for their own interest but we don't have a say and we claim we are independent. Why can't they abide by laws? Is it because they are whites and we are blacks?

I could remember going to the Tudu transport last year around December, and i saw this nice chop bar and the workers pounding fufu to sell customers. All of a sudden some white men and women appeared, and decided to pound the fufu with the workers simply because they claim they have never see one before. 'What?' In which European country will you go to, and joke with their commercial food just because you want to learn? But these cooks submitted to them as if they were threaten at gun point.

Am just frustrated about how we succumb to things easily even if it hinders our comfortability.

Women are being maltreated by their callous husbands yet they keep on saying "Darling" simply because the family members will hate the woman and the children for the rest of their lives.

Managers of academic institutions refusing to eliminate unqualified teachers, some of them also refuse to award grades to female student because they refuse giving "the meat to the dog"

Pensioners are paid what is due but at a delayed time which is inconvenience to them.

Oh ho! how long are we going to twich and itch in our sandful shoes? The only institutions which can help us complain is the media, which we can't even trust.

The media should rather concentrate in playing advocacy role for the voiceless and stop their so call complicated politics. Am done.

Ms Shallom Lumor
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A student
Ghana Institute of Journalism