Young And Worthless

The young get associated with bravado, adventure, worldliness and restlessness. Says a local adage: Akwadaa hu ne nsa hohro a O 'ne mpanimfo) didi. Without such proper guidance in raising the young, they become thieves in positions of responsibility they hold irresponsibly. In desperation, they would cite having been DHP criterion for ministerial appointment.

DHP is an unremunerated post which requires no job place skills. It's extra-curriculum activity for overseeing food matters. What I remember most at the dining hall in the college (secondary) and college (teacher training) was that the young (by level of study) among the students dished food at the dining table.

I wonder from which schools or colleges the congresspeople picked their nauseating 'create loot and share' habits from; it was impossible to graduate from those I attended, with that kind of trained to steal from state funds. You were trained to be empathetic and humbling through a practice of dishing food in a hungry mood. You could not cheat by thieving some of the food for yourself and get away with it.

Two first year students at each table served the food. One would share the carbohydrate (rice, yam, cocoyam, gari and others) while the other would share an accompanying soup or stew. Eagle seniors' eyes would watch as portions were scooped from the pot and dropped on individual plates. If one dared heap one's own or took the largest piece of meat/fish, a senior would exchange his plate for the sharer's.

That way, we were taught to be selfless in the distribution of communal resources when in charge. One doesn't admirably take more from what belongs to everyone for personal satisfaction and leave crumbs for others. Congress has no eagle senior eyes watching over the national treasury. The one expected to do that is too busy stealing himself so he has no time to catch everyone busily taking more than the fair share.

In our circumstance of congress motherland rule, to have been a student leader is to have been prepared to lead a nation into disaster. They know they fall short of knowledge required to effectively perform in the offices they occupy; so they use the time to solve dumsÉ” attend school, seeking the knowledge that should have qualified them to be appointed.

I have, before, pointed at the youthful impetuosity, greed and stealing habits which characterise the former congress student leader. Those who initially joined the ɔsono family were confronted with anti-state resources as booty looting restraining. But in congress they saw unbridled marauding opportunities for thieving from our common money vested in state treasury.

Those who know them know them and they know themselves. They are thieves who self-taught themselves in student-leader roles to acquire and imbibe Fagin experiences of trickery and state pocket picking. It could have been in telco bribery or Brazil World Cup dollar raid or distributing hampers, or procuring pampers and pads. What is expected to be procured never gets bought or is bought at inflated pricing.

With that, the young of congress, babies with sharp teeth of steel for biting into the national cake, has succeeded in cultivating a culture of thieving from the state on a never before experienced vulgar scale. If the practice is to be carried into the future, there is no doubt the motherland would be heading into bankruptcy.

This is the scenario that although prematurely, is sending shivers in the spine of some compatriots who are expressing doubts about the said 30 percent capacity of a future ɔsono dominated parliament. For now, I would want to assure my compatriots not to spend energy generating and harbouring doubts about a youthful parliament for as long as it is dominated by ɔsono.

My confidence comes from eagle eye watching over the national purse and its distribution, in a replication of seniors' constant monitoring juniors sharing food on dining hall tables.

With the array of self-made achievers in the ɔsono ranks with life experience and successful management of areas public and private, I expect no short supply of expertise to compose ministerial and other government machinery that will grow the motherland into prosperity.

Indeed, it is proactive that the young ones would be available to understudy the experienced ones to guarantee a future of mature experts running government and not a young and thieving crop of congress motherland retrograding squad.

It is going to be a thieving worthless congress young against under mentorship ɔsono future leaders. With the former, the motherland loses, with the latter she prepares herself for a future world of fierce competition among nations. Fear not the ɔsono young so let's will for the latter and rid ourselves of the former, consigning them to history with the power of the thumb.

By Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh