Shifting The Posts

From pegging the end of dumsor by the end of the year 2015 to a new date next year, the government has attracted a worrying epithet for itself.

When a government loses the necessary respectability among the governed, the situation leads to the loss of confidence in its management of the economy.

For a long time Ghanaians have endured the pain of intermittent supply of electricity: they pray almost incessantly that government would make good its promise of restoring the status quo.

Recalling the Power Minister's pledge of restoring electricity by the end of the year, failing which he would resign his appointment, we are at a loss as to the calibre of persons managing the country when new pledges replace unfulfilled ones.

We would have rather as other Ghanaians would, that the truth about the power situation is told us rather than the inconsistencies we are fed with even as the situation witnesses a consistent retrogression. Indeed, the quality of the promises of government is not commensurate with the reality on the ground. It is a major source of government losing face even among those who pretended to be concurring with its promises.

Under such circumstances, assembling people for the purpose of political rallies becomes a function of money. People must be paid to fill spaces so that government would be seen to be popular.

We are in trouble. Government now lies on the bosom of propaganda to keep afloat. The truth cannot be told by government because doing so would bring to the fore the truth about the incompetency the country is enmeshed in.

So now it is all clear that the end of year end to the power challenges (dumsor) as told Ghanaians is illusory.  Ghanaians must brace themselves for more challenges in the face of government's inability to fix the problem as it promised earlier.

Experts have told us that the country's power situation has reached this appalling state because of a general mismanagement of the economy, a drawback which has affected all facets of governance.

Regrettably though, the lies continue as though those who churn them underrate our intelligence to minnow the chaff from the grains.

Ghanaians have now been pushed to the wall and would no longer be able to tolerate the mediocrity of ethnocentric remarks which characterise the president's discourse with them, now that he has embarked on his nationwide campaign towards next year's polls.

Transforming lives? That is yet to be seen and we plead with the president to be real as his compatriots no longer believe in his rhetoric when electricity is no longer an assured attribute of our homes.