Where Do We Go From Here?

I ask this question to all Ghanaians, where do we go from here? Although I do not reside in Ghana, Ghana is my business. I have extended family in Ghana. As such, I have to be concerned about the welfare of the country Ghana. Ghana is in worse shape than anyone my generation remembers. Those of us who grew up with the Rawlings era did not experience much but we were told by our parents the suffering, the 1980's famine. The Agege stories, the stories of Ghanaian displacement.

Our generation are however experiencing a different kind of revulsion or perhaps the same. The country is worsening, lawlessness, corruption , life is getting too expensive for the average man or woman, for the child. Taxes have been raised, and as usual, the president is wandering around the world.

Ghana is broke. Massively broke under the NDC reign. As such, I ask myself, African democracy, Ghana democracy, what are we Ghanaians both in the Diaspora and at home going to do. What are the answers to these problems?

No Ghanaian can say they do not care, and no African within the West African belt should say they don't care. Everyone must care, and they in turn learn from the Ghanaian lessons. Ghana as a country, attaining independence in 1957 under the Nkrumah leadership has progressed for a while and stalled. After Nkrumah's overthrow, the country has been through one revolution or the other. The last of them was with Rawlings. After enjoying peace within the West African sub-belt for a while, the actions and greed of a few men have brought the county to its knees. Many Ghanaians feel the impending doom if the present leadership does not turn the country around for the better.

The recent budget reading taxes petroleum products at 17.5%. At this rate, every Ghanaian knows that food prices also jumps up. Now, for a country that has a high youth unemployment rate and unable to maintain policies put in place to help the sick, needy and the poor, how does the leadership of the country expect people to live. The few political entrepreneurs get rich and the majority of the country remain poor and pay for their theft.

With this huge disparity and disconcertion brewing in the country, such is the concessions that lead to governmental overthrow. No one in Ghana wants that to happen, hence the leadership is taking advantage of this fact and indeed deeming and damming all Ghanaians. When shall the people say enough is enough? And who are the people that are going to pay for their thievery of the few.

As chiefs are en-stooled in Ghanaian tradition, so can the chief makers de-stool a chief often rare but does occur. Are we as Ghanaian going to wait for the next two years 2016 before change comes, or are we going to learn from this and have a constitutional amendment? Something had got to be done quickly. Not through blood shed, but using the political democratic tools, judiciary, referendum, the law to re-write what democracy and governance in Ghana. And as I often say, the revolution will not be televised.

For all that are draining the coffers of the country today, let them be aware that they will pay in the very new future. Ghanaians can continue to pray, but know that actions and prayers go together. God help is all. God help mother Ghana.