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23.07.2014 Feature Article

Sorry For Your Loss, Mr. President!

Sorry For Your Loss, Mr. President!
23.07.2014 LISTEN

Funeral Announcement''Ghana is dead and will be buried, come what may, all sympathises are cordially invited, is a must for organised labour to not disappoint my generation.we need this history''

'Once upon a timeeee, time time'.one Dr. Levi Zeleza Manda wrote, and I quote, ''Malawi is dead, but we are not yet buried''. In times past, I have identified Ghana with Dr Manda's assertion. Thankfully, Malawi was buried on the 20th of May 2014, when Malawians voted Mama Joyce out of power. This Dr Manda did not think of as Malawi's burial but instead her resurrection and so I did not speak this of Ghana. So it has now become my opinion.

And so come Thursday Ghana unlike Malawi will be buried at least for the very first. Then perhaps she may resurrect afterwards. This will be a huge loss to the president. For us the younger generation we will tell stories of it to the generation to come after us.

Come Thursday we will see Ghana buried but not in the manner of the Malawians. To take Malawi's resurrection for our burial will require Ghanaians waiting for some 18months. This will be disaster and unhealthy for Ghana.

Ghana has been dead for quite some time now. And with the options to either bury or resurrect the nation we rather choose to keep the body in the morgue for God knows what.

We choose to play with the corpse and danced in neither of the options. But come Thursday, come what may, if and only if, all things being equal, Ghana will go the way of the cemetery. Then perhaps her resurrection will emerge.

Ghana will give my late father the opportunity to know how I'm doing since he left.

Knowing the 'play' in these 'semantics', I am left to sit 'tenterhook'. Hoping organised labour will not disappoint my generation this time and will make this a huge loss to the president and to make him listen and resurrect mother Ghana.

I was even happier to learn this Wednesday morning that organised labour is bent on demonstrating. Bit of relief. Perhaps the meeting went deadlock. 'Awww'. According to reports government has finally given up, cleared the demonstration and has the assurance of something peaceful but boisterous and indicative of how bad things have turned. This again is a huge loss. And I'm sorry Mr. President. You have my very best of condolences. I know these are hard times to be president.

We will be there to sympathise with you but this time on the street, making a case. 'Lol'.

Oh before I go, is it true that Employers Association has called the bluff of organised labour and warned employees, 'this my long ears they hear things la'. But hey, could it be that these Employers are beneficiaries of a rotten state?

Well, that will be a subject of another debate.

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